It is known from studies that positive, spiritual, optimistic and happy people get sick less, recover faster, and have less risk of cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack.
To celebrate world heart day, doctor alberto negrete, cardiologist and electrophysiologist, will give a conference, “how to take care of your heart, one of the vital organs of the body”, within the framework of the “community education program – talks to care for and preserve life.”
If you combine regular physical activity, three times a week, 30 minutes on average, leading a calm life, without stress, you are ensuring a healthy heart.
If you add a balanced diet to this, the heart will be that “powerful engine” that will move the body in all its dimensions. You will save dozens of ailments and have an enviable quality of life.
Various studies show that there is an association between excess stress and cardiac risk, because it can modify the chemical substances in the body that contribute to the disease. “Negative emotions, stress, are a daily threat to heart health. If we live without time for exercise and at an accelerated pace, the “threat” is potential”, affirms the doctor, cardiologist and electrophysiologist, from Medical Center.
All kinds of feelings, positive or negative, create physiological changes. Your skin, heart rate, digestion, joints, muscle energy levels, hair, and countless other cells and organs can change with every emotion.
Stress plays a huge role in your immune system and can impact your blood pressure, cholesterol levels, brain chemistry, blood sugar levels, and hormone balance. It can even ‘break’ your heart (broken heart syndrome or strong emotions that can damage the motor organ). It is increasingly seen as a marker of cardiovascular risk.
“Modern women are more susceptible to stress, they are more vulnerable to emotions, to feeling sadness and anxiety, more pressure due to their double role at home and work, according to studies, and therefore they are more exposed to the risk of disease cardiovascular disease,” says Dr. Negrete.
Controlling stress can improve emotional and physical health. Imaging studies of the heart and brain, taken from people, found that emotions such as anger, sadness, anxiety, and depression, especially, led to changes or disturbances in heart rhythm and brain function. The negative ones, with high levels of toxic hormonal chemicals in the bloodstream.
While positive emotions produce relaxation at the level of all body systems, allowing the transport of oxygen to the brain.
Feeling is from the heart, with a direct connection to the brain. Studies affirm that around 80% of diseases have an emotional origin. That only 5% of diseases, including cancer, have a genetic origin, that is to say that 95% of our health comes from our surroundings or environment in which we live.
Therefore, that a laugh leaves you breathless and your heart exhausted, is healthy. An explosion of joy, it’s a blast of oxygen that is surely saving you from a heart attack. Scientific studies confirm that joy, excitement and enthusiasm are true protectors of heart health.
It is known from studies that positive, spiritual, optimistic and happy people get sick less, recover faster, and have less risk of cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack.
In other words, a good mood equals a good heart rate, which incidentally reduces the risk of diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal.
“If to this cheerful heart, we add a healthy lifestyle, a diet low in fat and rich in fruits and vegetables, the practice of a sport or regular physical activity, you can be sure that you will keep away cardiovascular disease and many other diseases. illnesses more”, says the cardiologist of the Medical Center.
If you want to take care of your heart, reduce or avoid stimulants, such as coffee, alcohol, and tobacco. Avoid stressful factors, exercise or go for a walk, take regular breaks in the day, naps are important, enjoy relaxing music and playful and social activities.
“Get used to breathing gently and calmly, it will help you relax your muscles. Relaxation techniques, such as yoga, can be very beneficial to lower the level of stress in your life”, advises the cardiologist at Medical Center.