10 Things You Should Know To Prevent or Deal With A Heart Attack or Stroke

It has been said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!” There is no question in my mind that this is definitely true. I would even go one step further to tell you that prevention should start when we are children so that as we grow into adulthood, our risk of illness can decrease steadily instead of increase steadily. For many people you know, this is already too late. These are the friends and acquaintances who already have medical problems including heart disease some of whom may have already prematurely died. For most of the rest of us, if they are not already experiencing heart problems, it is not at all too late. For those who do not think prevention, they should start now, today.

1. Eat a Great Healthy Diet
2. Lose Weight
3. Give Up Smoking
4. Exercise
5. Have a Complete Physical Examination, Yearly
6. Treat High Blood Pressure
7. Reduce Stress
8. Take ASA Daily, Have it with You All of the Time
9. Marriage
10. Chelation Therapy

1. Eat a Great Healthy Diet

1. If you want to prevent heart attack and stroke and prevent dying prematurely from one of these conditions you should start now eating a very Heart and Stroke Prevention healthy diet, a diet which encourages you to pick foods wisely and think out what foods you will pick, so that those foods you finally chose are foods that are healthiest for you and can decrease, significantly reduce and even entirely eliminate your risk for both having a heart attack and/or a stroke. If you choose right this same diet can also maximize your overall health, prevent obesity, cancer, and a host of other medical problems and health risks.
2. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables, if possible, vine ripened, certified organic foods
3. If your cholesterol or triglycerides, or both are elevated, especially if your LDL or bad cholesterol is elevated, then you will be at increased risk for heart attack and/or stroke. So, you will want to:
   1. Watch your diet, reduce intake of total fats, trans fats especially and cholesterol
   2. Use Niacin (slow release or long acting niacin)
   3. Use Red Yeast Rice
   4. Cut off all visible fat be for cooking meats. Broil meats on a rack or rotisserie so that fats will drop of into the pan below
   5. Eat lots of onions and garlic and oats and oatmeal
4. Low Salt Diet
   1. A high sodium diet is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
   2. Elevated salt leads to high blood pressure and high blood pressure to heart attack and stroke.
   3. Do not add salt when cooking
   4. Ask for low salt cooking when eating out
   5. For more information about How to Eliminate Salt (Sodium) From Your Diet, click here.
5. Read Labels
   1. Low salt
   2. Low fat
   3. Low cholesterol
6. Drink 8 to 10 8-ounce glasses of water daily
   1. Do not become dehydrated
   2. If you do not already know how to do all of this find a skilled nutritionist to help you design a healthy diet for you own personal needs.

2. Lose Weight
1) If your weight is greater than 20% more than it should be using Body Mass Index, weight verses height verse body type, then you will want to lose weight.
2) If you are a woman and your waist line >35 inches or if you are a man and your weight line is greater than 42 inches
3) This means that you are at greater risk for Metabolic Syndrome, which means that you are at greater risk for diabetes as well as high blood pressure, hence for heart attack and/or stroke.
4) Once again, get help if you need it.

3. Give Up Smoking, Now If You Are Still Smoking
1) If you are still smoking, even occasionally, stop!
2) Smoking is a leading cause of heart disease and heart attack and stroke.
3) Here once again, get help if you need it.

4. Regular Daily Exercise
1) The heart is a muscle and it needs exercise, if you exercise it daily it will stay healthier and you will live longer.
2) Get out and walk about 20-30 minutes 5 days a week.
3) Starts your program slowly and build up slowly and steadily over a period of time, do not overdo it and exhaust yourself, do not injure yourself
4) Here once again, get help if you need it.

5. Have a Complete Physical Examination Yearly
1) Have a preventive examination yearly, If you have symptoms do not wait see your doctor immediately or go to an Urgent Care or Emergency Room depending on severity of your symptoms. Each year’s exam should include:
2) An ECG
3) Someone to listen to your heart, check your BP, pulse and check your weight
4) Read and learn about the symptoms of heart attacks and stroke and learn how and what to do to prevent heart disease and stroke before they happen.
5) Women Breast Exam, Pap, Both: Bone density, colonoscopy.

6. Check Yourself Regularly for High Blood Pressure
1) If your blood pressure is greater than > 135/85 often and does not easily return to normal, this you may have high blood pressure.
2) High blood pressure is a leading cause of heart disease, injury and death related to heart disease or stroke.
3) Consider Meditation, Relaxation Exercises, Tai Chi, Ki gong, Yoga

7. Reduce Stress
1) Stress can cause you to overeat, eat the wrong foods, gain weight, and it can lead to high blood pressure all major risk factors fo heart attack and stroke.
2) Stress leads to or causes somewhere between 70% and 80% of all illnesses seen in medical offices and hospital. These are Stress-Related Disorders and they are also the leading cause of high blood pressure, ulcers and a host of other chronic diseases, and death caused by heart disease and stroke.
3) Reduce mental stress created by unresolved conflicts in relationships, at work, family, friends or due to spiritual matters. Mourn deaths and enjoy births, do not stress, life is much too short, why shorten it any more than it already is?

8. Take ASA Daily, Have it with You All of the Time
1) If you are at high risk for heart disease, that is you have high cholesterol, don’t exercise regularly, lots of stress in your life, already have angina or unexplained chest pain, smoke even occasionally, family history of heart disease or stoke, abnormal physical examination, ECG, high blood pressure or any other factor or indicator that puts you at high risk, take one baby aspirin (as long as you are not allergic to aspirin) each and every day.
2) Carry a few baby ASA (81 mg) or regular aspirins with you all the time and if you suddenly start to have chest pain or suspect you are having a heart attack take at least 325 mg of aspirin immediately, call 911 or ask someone to do this for you or get you to an emergency room as soon as is possible.
3) Berkeley Heart Lab Genetic testing to see if you are a candidate or at increased risk of problems and side effects of aspirin.

9. Marriage
1) Men get married as men tend to live longer when they are married
2) Women can stay single and be happy and healthy being single
3) Create an ongoing good relationship, lots of love, caring and support, if you don’t already have this then talk with someone to help you create it.
4) Reduce and eliminate stress, work together and support each other.

10. Chelation Therapy
1) If you already have atherosclerosis or you are at high risk for heart disease, high cholesterol, metabolic syndrome, diabetes gets these treated and consider chelation.
2) Chelation helps to unblock and reverse atherosclerosis.
3) It is safe and cost effective
4) If you have questions about chelation, we have informational materials you can pick up and take with you or ask me after the program.

For more information or to schedule a consultation, contact Advanced Wellness Medical at 310-879-9266 or 844-222-577 or e-mail your questions or request for information to info@AdvancedWellnessMedical.com