How Old Age Of Your Heart?

Did you know that the actual heart age and age your heart today is not same. Heart age could actual older or younger than the age the real man. There are five things that make the heart could be older than actual age.

Dr. Nathaniel Reichek a cardiologist said that heart age could be younger or older than actual age depends on your lifestyle.

Heart disease is one of the most deadly diseases and WHO recorded 12.5 million of the estimated 32 million heart attacks that happened worldwide.

Dr. Nathaniel said there are five factors that make heart age older than your actual age.

1. High Cholesterol

Habit of eating foods high in cholesterol will be made disturbed heart function. High cholesterol will make high blood pressure. In fact, pulse rate, levels of total fat, cholesterol and triglycerides were the pressure be high. High cholesterol in the body would be added 5-10 years of age heart be older than actual age of your heart.

2. Overweight Body 
Overweight body which have entered the category of obesity, will make the work of the heart to be more heavy. Obesity is a signifies where the fatty liver which causes cholesterol levels is difficult to control. 

3. Smoke
Smoking is something very fast heart damage. The molecules of toxins in cigarettes, can bind the blood around it, thus causing a risk of blood clots causing heart attacks. Habit of smoking can make your heart grow 20 years older than your of age.
 
4. Drinking alcohol
Alcohol can increase the blood pressure so that the work of the heart increases. When the body is had alcohol poisoning that happened was alcohol pressing the nerves which control the body such as nerves of the heart, lungs and brain will stop the functioning. Drinking alcohol every day would be made heart grow older of age 10-20 years from your of age.

5. Stress
When people had stressed, the hypothalamus in the brain would trigger stress hormones, either adrenaline as well as non-adrenaline, which then would lead increased the heart rate, increased blood pressure which resulted in injured to the artery wall and formation of clots in blood vessels, and atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries). Stress makes the pressure on heart also increases and stress will make the heart of age 15-20 years older than your of age.

Healthy Living

Avoiding bad habits of five from the above is a way to keep the heart stays the same of age or younger than your of age. Be sure to reduce salt, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables as well as an active move to make the heart stay young.