5 Most Common Hereditary Heart Disorders
Below you will find what I have identified to be the5 most common hereditary heart disordersthat I see in my practice. I will also go into how you may even be able to change your genes!
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What is Atrial Fibrillation | Learn How You Can Prevent It
What is Atrial Fibrillation?
A healthy heart beats between 60 and 80 times a minute. (The average rate is 72). Any significant deviation from that range is a heartbeat irregularity, also called arrhythmia. To ensure that its rhythm remains...
Antibiotics Hike Heart Risks
Azithromycin is one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics on the market. Most people know it by the name Z-Pak. It is also one of the antibiotics known to hike heart risks.
Z-Pak Heart Risks
Millions of people have taken Z-Pak, whic...
Joining The 150 Club – Beat A Heart Attack
With a total cholesterol level of 128, I am proud to belong to the “150 Club.”
Although federal health guidelines consider a total cholesterol of under 200 “desirable,” that number really isn’t low enough.
A Total Cholesterol of...
Heart Disease in Ancient Times
We often think of coronary artery disease as an ailment that reflects problems of our modern lifestyle. But thanks to coronary calcium scoring, we now know that this isn’t the case — at least not completely.
Heart Disease And Ancient Mum...
Stress Hampers Women’s Recovery
We already know that younger women have a more difficult time recovering after a heart attack. A new study shows that stress may be a key reason.
Although 35,000 women under age 65 experience a heart attack each year in the United States, th...
What Is Heart Disease What Are Some Risk Factors
To best explain heart disease, allow me to tell you a bit about how your heart works. As you probably know, your heart is a pump. Its one and only job is to pump blood to the rest of your body. But what you may not know is that to do this, ...
Testing for Hardened Heart Arteries
The so-called “gold standard” of testing for atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) in the heart is called a coronary catheterization or coronary angiogram, which is an invasive test that involves injecting dye into the coronary arteri...
6 Habits That Are Damaging Your Heart
You know that eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly are important habits for a healthy heart. But did you know that you could still be undermining all your efforts with some surprisingly common bad habits?
“A number of activities ...
What Do Probiotics Do?
Since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotics have been a tremendous boon to human society. These drugs wipe out bacterial infection and they’ve saved millions of people.
But because antibiotics eliminate all bacteria, they destroy both t...