Inflammation | Dr. Stephen Sinatra's Heart MD Institute. When it comes to your health, there are heroes and villains – substances or lifestyle habits that can make you stronger or break you down... Fast food tends to be filled with "villains," but probably not the ones you think! Which villains are the worst? Well, if you're thinking saturated fat and cholesterol, you're on the wrong track. As Dr. Johnny Bowden and I explain in our book, The Great Cholesterol Myth, cholesterol is not the real villain conventional medical dogma has made it out to be.
Inflammation Is the Real Villain when It Comes to Heart Disease Inflammation is a normal physiological process - it indicates that the immune system is at work at injury or infection sites, helping the body heal. Sometimes inflammation is obvious - as swelling or redness on our skin or arthritic pain in our joints. Learn to recognize Heart Attack Symptoms How Do Arteries Become Inflamed?
There are so many reasons why our arteries become inflamed... 1. 2. Download the 1st Chapter 3. 4. Learn More... What's Your Question? GERD - Heart Attack or Heartburn? How to Tell. Istockphoto Three years ago, Lee Ann Williamson began feeling uncomfortable as she was playing the piano for the Sunday services at a church in a Kansas City suburb. She wasn't sure what it was—a heart problem, heartburn, or something else.
All she knew was that it felt a bit like someone was sitting on her chest. She tried to ignore the chest pain and kept on playing. However, as the morning progressed, the pain didn't go away and indeed got worse. Finally, the then-46-year-old sought out a physician who was a church member, who recommended she go straight to the emergency room. Heartburn-Easing Foods That Fight GERD At the hospital, her blood pressure was a very elevated 186 over 110 and she was given nitroglycerin, a drug that relaxes blood vessels and can often help restore blood flow to the heart in heart attack patients. About 300,000 new cases of noncardiac chest pain are diagnosed annually in the United States, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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