3 Ways to Take Care of Your Heart

Responsible for delivering oxygen and nutrients to the body and beating over 100,000 times a day, your entire circulatory system depends on your heart. 

All of your tissues and organs require a continuous supply of blood to function correctly. With over 647,000 deaths attributed to heart disease in the United States alone, taking proper care of one of your body’s most precious organs is crucial.

Eating healthy and managing blood pressure are some of the best solutions to keeping your heart happy. By staying on top of your regimen, you can slow down, or even avoid, heart-related problems. 

In this article, we explore three simple ways to take care of your heart.

Eat Healthy and Stay Active 

When it comes to dieting, most of us imagine being restricted to tasteless foods. However, when it comes to caring for our hearts, savory items like garlic, dark chocolate, and green tea are some of the best food choices for maintaining the health of our hearts.

Also, you don’t have to hit the gym like a pro to receive the benefits of exercise. Taking a short walk to the store to pick up a few items or riding your bike around town are good ways to get your heart rate up.

New Technology for Managing Blood Pressure

An electrocardiogram (EKG) can usually detect an enlarged heart, abnormal heart rhythms, heart disease, and even heart attacks. Most of the time, people find themselves getting an EKG under dire circumstances in the emergency room.

However, thanks to smart technology, you can use a hand-held sonar device to do a phone EKG. This little device can detect several abnormalities by just holding it between your fingers for 10 seconds. 

You can also sync the data to your phone and email your EKG directly to your doctor. The device can be used to check your heart rate and blood pressure whenever you like.

Love With All of Your Ventricles

A Japanese scientist found that the ventricle of the organ enlarged when people had their hearts broken. However, just like a broken heart can wound a person emotionally, and even physically, the act of love is beneficial to the heart.

Hugging someone you love releases oxytocin, which can lower stress. Research has also shown that being around someone you love can lower blood pressure. Another exciting discovery was the benefits of laughter. Laughing with loved ones expanded blood vessels helping blood flow more freely throughout tissues and organs.

Other things found to help heart health were having pets, and writing love letters. 

Always Live from the Heart

A beautiful life is composed of a myriad of many things. Friendship, happiness, joy, and health are just a few priceless gifts that give our lives meaning, and our beating hearts carry us through it all. 

Diet and exercise, checking our heart’s health, and loving others are three good ways to give thanks to that fist-sized organ that provides us with so much.