How to Look After Your Heart, Healthy Heart Remedies

By Simon Staub

Most people are born with a normal, healthy heart that as long as they look after it will last for many years. Mother Nature has taken hundreds of thousands of years of evolution to develop your heart along with the rest of your body, your heart like the human brain is one of the wonders of our world, as long as it has oxygen, your heart can keep on pumping even if removed from your body.

Perfected by nature to become arguably the most important organ in our bodies, our heart is a large muscle that pumps blood containing oxygen and other essential substances to all the organs and cells of the body and also provides the means of removing the waste that is produced by day to day bodily functions.

We wrote this book as a guide for heart health. It explains some of the common causes of heart disease, how to prevent it and what to do if you or someone near you has a heart attack.

Maintaining good heart health is relatively easy and better than dealing with heart disease.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon Staub
• Release date: May 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201876418

Book preview

Chapter 1: What is a Myocardial Infarction or Heart Attack?

A heart attack (MI) is where the heart stops working properly. Heart disease describes all the different diseases and disorders liable to affect your heart and its operation. Oxygen starvation is the most common cause of heart disease. A blockage in the arteries carrying oxygen-rich blood from a person’s lungs to the heart is usually the cause. This condition can cause it to become damaged and if untreated the heart can die. Often this condition is caused because of a buildup of a waxy substance known as plaque. Usually, it takes many years for this substance to build-up to the point where it becomes a problem and blocks the coronary (or heart) arteries the medical term for this is