#heart-problems

As they say,” Precaution is better than cure.” We, too, believe in the saying that is why we came up with nine ways to minimize your heart disease and keep your heart healthy. In today’s life, 1 out of 4 people dies because of heart disease. The reasons for heart diseases today being so common among people is due to poor lifestyle. Which could be due to poor diet, high Blood Pressure, high blood cholesterol level, Diabetes, Obesity, Stress, Smoking, Drinking, Poor Hygiene, Age, Gender, Family History, Certain chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy for cancer, etc. In today’s era, every 3rd person is suffering from poor heart health. Multiple heart diseases are getting standard day by day, which are arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, Ischemic, congenital, rheumatic, cyanotic, valvular, cyanotic congenital, and coronary heart disease, etc.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can be a game-changer for your heart’s health. So let’s dig into how you can maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Eat Healthy, live healthy

Plant-based foods are an excellent source for your body and heart that can help you prevent cardiovascular disease. Fruits and vegetables are something that can help you lower your high-calorie food intake. Apart from Fruits and vegetables, whole grain is a good source of fiber and other nutrients. Whole grains help you in regulating your blood pressure and cholesterol. The way consuming nutrients, proteins, fiber is vital for your heart’s health; there are some elements which one should reduce like sodium. Sodium can cause high blood pressure, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Exercise daily

Working out daily just for half an hour can do miracles to your body. Exercise can improve blood circulation, which automatically helps you to reduce the risk of developing clots or blockage in the arteries. Exercising regularly reduces/prevents high blood pressure and lowers the risk of diabetes, which is a risk factor for heart disease. According to the Cardiologist, “Working out can help keep your heart toned, strong just like any muscle of your body” and protects you from various types of heart diseases.

Visit Your Doctor regularly

When was the last time you went for a checkup? Uh-huh, we thought so. Going once a year for screening tests is essential. By seeing your doctor regularly, you can gain a better understanding of your body and any health concerns (and not just limited to heart health, either). By visiting a doctor regularly, you keep your body in check. Regular visits to a doctor give you a soundtrack of your blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and heart disease problems. Regular checkups not only good for your body, but it gives you a mental relief as well.

Quit Smoking

There are multiple types of heart disease causes, and smoking is one of them. Smoking regularly can affect your heart and body in numerous ways-speed up your heart rate, develop blood clots that lead to heart attack, raises blood pressure, reduces oxygen your heart gets, harms your blood vessels, including those in your heart. Soon you quit smoking, your odds of getting heart disease will drop. Quit smoking not only keeps your heart healthy, but it will give your lungs a new life to live.  

Drink Less

Moderate drinking helps your heart in a few ways-raises proper cholesterol levels, prevents blood from clotting, prevents damage caused by bad cholesterol. heavy alcohol can give you some severe disease of the heart muscle called cardiomyopathy and can create irregular heart rhythms, called arrhythmias

Start moving your body

No matter how much you work out daily, eat healthily, don’t drink, don’t smoke, and follow a healthy lifestyle but sitting for a long time in one place could put your heart at risk. When you sit for a long time, the blood flow of the body slows down due to which fatty acids in the blood vessels develop. When you sit, you don’t use your muscles due to which muscles lose strength and the ability to support other body symptoms. “Sitting at one place for a long period doesn’t allow the variability for your heart rate and blood pressure.” So start moving your body.

Healthy sleeping

For a healthy heart, sleeping is a vital element. Lack of sleep raises the risk of heart diseases like cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease. Shorter sleep worsens your hypertension(high blood pressure)and type 2 diabetes Problems. Again no matter how good is your lifestyle, eating, and drinking habits, if you don’t have a healthy sleep routine, then you are at high risk of various types of heart disease. But avoid oversleeping too because the same may be right for oversleeping. So plan accordingly & sleep well.

Meditate

A Cardiologist says, “Anxiety and stress are deleterious to the heart.” Anxiety can cause- rapid heart rate(tachycardia), raises blood pressure, decrease heart rate variability. Although there is no direct relationship between heart disease and anxiety but anxiety can lead to depression, which further leads to some severe problems like heart failure syndrome(cardiomyopathy). Meditation and yoga help you fix such ignorant and crucial issues. Meditation is helpful in heart disease

Take care of yourself

Don’t limit yourself from trying any form of self-care that soothes your soul, body, and heart. Also, don’t forget to visit your dentist regularly because oral health can also affect your heart. Now go on, Pamper yourself to keep your soul happy. After all,” a healthy soul can lead to a healthy heart.” Dr. Monik Mehta(Cardiologist) recommend you to surround yourself with happy people and a healthy environment.

Happy environment, Happy you, Happy heart.

Best Wishes from HealthyHeartsGurgaon

went to the urgent care at my school today for a possible heart problem because i've been experiencing chest pains and shortness of breath came out with out an answer and the possibility of a lung problem as well so now i have a referral to a heart specialist and possibly a lung specialist right after.  So we'll see where life takes me and how things end but all i know is that if i where to die today i would be perfectly content with who i am and who i had become.  I may not be the most popular person in the world or even that i had many friends but the friends i did have meant the world to me.  even those that could care less about me.  It's kind of funny growing up i never believed that i was going to live to be old but now that might actually be a reality i always grew up thinking i was going to die before i became 18 but here i am.  But still to the friends that i have that know the position i'm in i thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support that you gave me.  and for those so called friends that i have i still love all of you and the experiences and memories that you brought into my life both good and bad and no matter how short.

But special thanks goes out to my best friend Ryan who's been there for me all high school and even in college i never found a friend who was here more for me then you and for that i owe you a special thank you.  Even now when im in college your still here for me more so then anyone else even those people that are right next to me and those that i live with.