Knowing Heart Diseases More

If you are one of many Americans at risk for heart disease, chest pain can be a very scary, serious issue, or even more frightening. However, sometimes chest pain isn't heart related, it is a digestive issue.

Heartburn, or it's more serious cousin acid reflux, affects millions of people everyday. The symptoms of both heart problems and acid reflux are very similar, but the treatment is obviously very different. It's easy to mistake one for the other because the esophagus is located behind the heart in the chest cavity. Identifying the real problem when you have chest pain is very important. Here's a few things to look out for. Just remember, when in doubt see your health care provider.

Alcohol Weakens Heart

Consumption of alcohol greatly affects the heart. The quality of the membraneous structures which cover and line the heart changes and are thickened, become cartilaginous or calcareous. Then the valves lose their suppleness and what is termed valvular disorder becomes permanent. The structure of the the coats of the great blood-vessel leading from the heart share in the same changes of structure so that the vessel loses its elasticity and its power to feed the heart by the recoil from its distention, after the heart, by its stroke, has filled it with blood.

Again, the muscular structure of the heart fails owing to degenerative changes in its tissue. The elements of the muscular fibre are replaced by fatty cells or, if not so replaced, are themselves transferred into a modified muscular texture in which the power of contraction is greatly reduced.

Those who suffer from these organic deteriorations of the central and governing organ of the circulation of the blood learn the fact so insidiously; it hardly breaks upon them until the mischief is far advanced. They are conscious of a central failure of power from slight causes such as overexertion, trouble, broken rest or too long abstinence from food. They feel what they call a 'sinking' but they know that wine or some other stimulant will at once relieve the sensation. Thus they seek to relieve it until at last they discover that the remedy fails. The jaded, overworked, faithful heart will bear no more. it has run its course and the governor of the blood-streams broken. The current either overflows into the tissues gradually damming up the courses or under some slight shock or excess of motion ceases wholly at the centre.

Modern Medicine Heart Attack

How to Cure a Heart Attack with Modern Medicine

Ask how to cure a heart attack with modern medicine, and physicians will detail several treatments. Some involve medications, while others require invasive procedures.

Medications are used immediately in a heart attack. The first goal is to break up or prevent blood clots. Additional goals are to stabilize plaque, and keep blood platelets from congregating and sticking to plaque. Of course, it is hoped that the medications will prevent additional trouble. In order to reduce damage to the heart, physicians must administer these medications within 30 minutes from the time the heart attack symptoms began. Medications given may include any combination of aspirin, heparin, so-called clot busters, and other anti-platelet drugs.

Once these medications are given, modern medicine serves up additional drugs to lessen your heart's work and reduce your pain.

Procedures may begin before the heart attack has ended. The cardiologist may order catheterization to determine the heart attack's cause and assess damage. He may use balloon angioplasty to open a blocked artery, and place a stent to keep it open.

In severe cases of blockage, the cardiologist may perform emergency coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

In recent years, studies have shown that much of this is unnecessary and should not be done. A "wait-and-see" approach has been proven more satisfactory after initial medication.

How to REALLY Cure a Heart Attack with VERY Modern Medicine

In 2004, an Israeli team created what they termed a biological "scaffold" to implant in pigs. They found that the scaffold allowed healthy, injectable heart muscle cells to replace cells that died as a result of a heart attack. The process is known as tissue engineering.

Make warning system body

A good warning system to heart diseases is the presence of high blood cholestrol in the system. To help prevent this is to follow a lifestyle which includes

• Eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables
• Maintaining your ideal weight
• Getting enough exercise while avoiding processed foods, junk foods and hydrogenated oils.

Another way is to add fiber to your diet especially water soluble fiber such as the pectin that found in apple cider vinegar. Water soluble fiber soak up water which adds bulk. Interacts with your body and also keeps on working longer than no water soluble fiber.

Fiber also soaks up fats and cholestrol in the body and then is excreeted instead of being reabsorbed.

Non water soluble fiber soaks up moisture in the body but cannot interact with the body. Amino acids contained in apple cider vinegar have also shown promise in neutralizing some of the harmful oxidized LDL cholestrol