Ways to Prevent Heart Disease - Preparing for Long Life

Truth be told, it may depend on the step itself. For example, if you currently use tobacco and you manage to stop entirely, this step to heart disease prevention has been proven to be effective through much research.

On the other hand, if you try some new age idea on how to overcome hereditary tendencies toward heart disease, the effectiveness is much more in question.

However, what no one questions is that finding out how to prevent heart disease, and then doing what you've found out, is good preparation for a longer life.

So here are the...

Best Ways to Prevent Heart Disease

1. Make lifestyle changes to lower your risks.
   • If you never exercise, choose to do so for at least ten minutes 4 times a week. Build up to a half an hour or more that frequently.
     
   • If you know your life is full of stress, spend at least ten minutes a day in prayer or meditation.
     
   • If you are overweight, begin to change your eating habits in order to lose weight while keeping your diet healthy.
     
   • If you use any form of tobacco, stop! If you can't, see your doctor for help.
   
   
2. Second, get the right tests and help from your doctor to know what your true risks of heart disease are. The following tests will allow an accurate diagnosis of heart disease presence.
   • a CT (Computed Tomography) Heart Scan. This test will show the extent of atherosclerosis present in your coronary blood vessels. According to Dr. Davis, it could have predicted former President Clinton's heart problems before he needed major open heart surgery.
     
   • Instead of a test for cholesterol levels alone, get a lipoprotein test. This test can enable doctors to understand the causes of heart disease in 98% of cases, if they understand the data it provides.
     
   • Get an ankle-Brachial Index Test - This test compares blood pressure readings between a patient's arm and ankle, while the patient is resting, and after light exercise. The doctors can use it to accurately determine how advanced a patient's atherosclerosis is.

   These are the big three tests that Dr. William Davis says will enable a doctor to determine a person's degree of heart disease before a cardiac event such as a stroke or heart attack. He also says there are four additional tests that can be helpful ways to prevent heart disease, which are usually performed in connection with the lipoprotein test recommended above. They are:

   • a homocysteine test. High levels of homocysteine show a need for more B vitamins in your diet.
     
   • a fibrinogen test. If you have too much fibrin in the blood it can hinder blood flow and cause heart problems even if there are no other causes.

     If you've been told you have a problem with thick blood, fibrin is the likely cause, please read the page I've written on proteolytic enzymes, they provide the best natural solution for this problem.
     

   • A C-Reactive Protein test. This test will alert you to high inflammation levels in your body. If there is system wide inflammation present, health problems will follow.

   As you know, I'm not a doctor, but I've taken this information directly from an article published in March, 2006, in the Life Extension Magazine, authored by a doctor named William Davis. The name of the article is Effective Ways to Detect Silent Heart Disease. If you'd like more details, or the supporting documentation, please feel free to click on the link to read the complete article.

   The link will take you to the life extension site where you can find and read the article by typing in ways to prevent heart disease in the health concerns search box.
   

3. Finally, invest in supplements that will enable your body to heal. There are three I highly recommend to anyone who truly wants to prevent heart disease. They are:
   • A super food supplement that enables your body to release 25 to 30% more stem cells for at least four hours after each dose. This translates to 3 or 4 million more stem cells in circulation.

     In the past ten years researchers have discovered that stem cells are one of the body's major ways to heal.So if there is a danger of heart problems, this supplement will help your body heal. You can think of it as decreasing the chances for a cardiac event, by the same 25 to 30% that it increases your stem cells production and release.
     

   • A second supplement was designed by the same company to improve the body's circulation so that those stem cells can reach every area of the body. It is made up of three major ingredients: proteolytic-enzymes, antioxidants, and purgative herbs that enable your body to detoxify.

     For more information, or to find out where to order, please click the preceding link to read about it in more detail.
     

   • Last, but definitely not least, is a supplement called Pro Argi9 Plus. This is an arginine supplement combined with citruline that improves the way your endothelium work.

     If you'd like to try it, or get more information, click on the preceding link, or the banner ad at the top of the page.

     If you don't know what the endothelium are, they are the inner lining of your blood vessels that control the blood flow throughout your body. The underlying cause of most heart disease is diseased or malfunctioning endothelium. Atherosclerosis is actually just another name for sick endothelium.

   There are other supplements that may well provide ways to prevent heart disease, but these three would be my top recommendations. If you're interested in others, please read the page I've written about cardiovascular fitness for further information.

   Final Thoughts

   You can ignore your heart until you know you have a problem, and that's what most people do.

   The danger with this approach is many won't live beyond their initial problem.

   Since heart attacks so frequently kill, it is certainly wise to find out how to prevent heart disease, so you can prevent and reverse heart disease on a regular basis.

   If you make these ways to prevent heart disease a regular part of your life, I trust you'll never have to deal with the sudden heartache, both literal and figurative, heart disease can cause.
   
   

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