How To Save Your Life Part 2

One of my readers was kind to give another healthy tip I will share with you today:

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  Besides the tip I gave you yesterday that can save your own life if you are experiencing a heart attack, you can also bear down as if you are having a bowel movement and cough.  This 'bearing down' is called the Vasalva Movement and can help to invigorate the vagus nerve which is crucial for heart health.  Another way to help prevent heart attact is to eat healthy, maintain a healthy weight and exercise daily.

How To Save Your Life If Alone & Having A Heart Attack

We all should know how to perform CPR and basic first aid.  If you don't, you should enroll yourself into a class today.  You might save someone's life in the future.  But, if we are alone and experiencing chest pains and all other symptoms of a heart attack, how do we save our own lives?

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  Go to this link and learn how you can save YOUR OWN LIFE if you are ALONE and experiencing a heart attack.  Pass this little animation on to everyone else you know.  This could save lives....especially your own!  87693-HeartAttack1.pps (210KB)
 

Health and Reality

Over the holiday weekend, I was chatting with a gentleman who recently was placed on anti-hypertension medication.  He hadn't been to a physician in many years for a regular checkup and after speaking with him for a while, he still doesn't understand that his hypertension could have been avoided by small lifestyle changes over the years. My suggestions to alter his diet and alcohol consumption fell on deaf ears.  I suggested that he seek an acupuncturist in his area and take his condition seriously.  The reality is that his unhealthy lifestyle will contribute to increases in his medication over time and his risk of heart attack and stroke will increase proportionately.

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  If you have been placed on medication for any condition; take this as a wake up call and do something proactive for your health.  There's nothing worse than growing older and becoming so ill to the point where you've got bed sores, can't feed yourself, can't speak or can no longer walk.  Get real, and wise up....get yourself into healthy lifestyles today and avoid medications and illness down the road.

Hey Ladies, Listen Up! Early Warning Signs of a Heart Attack!!

This past weekend, a friend of mine told me that she had recurring chest pains and high blood pressure during the week; she had the common sense to go immediately to her doctor.  As it turns out, an angiogram was performed and the 'coast was clear', but did you know that heart attacks are way up there as the leading cause of death in women???
In most cases, women are 'poo-pooed' by their doctor when they complain of chest pains and other signs of heart attacks.  Unfortunately, many doctors attribute these signs and symptoms as anxiety, stress and 'hysterical female menopausal syndrome'.  If taken seriously, many women could be saved from an earlier than expected demise.  The signs and symptoms of heart attacks are different for men than women....I'll bet a lot of you out there didn't know that.

Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  go to this site:
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/Conditions_UCM_305346_SubHomePage.jsp
and look at what the American Heart Association has to say about the early warning signs of heart attack.  If you or someone you know experiences these early warning signs, just go to the emergency room.  Better to be safe than very sorry, indeed!

Aspirin and Heart Attacks

A patient of mine shared this with me yesterday and I thought I'd pass it on to all of you....
Here's Your Healthy Tip of the Day:

Why keep aspirin by your bedside?

About Heart Attacks
There are other symptoms of an heart attack besides the pain on the left arm.
One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating, however these symptoms may also occur less frequently.
Note: There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack.. The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep, did not wake up. However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep.
If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouthand swallow them with a bit of water .
Afterwards :
CALL 911
- say "heart attack!"
- say that you have taken 2 aspirins..
- phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by
- take a seat on a chair or sofa near the front door, and wait for their arrival and.
~ DO NOT lie down ~
A Cardiologist has stated that, if each person, after receiving this e-mail, sends it to 10 people, probably one life can be saved!
I have already shared the information- - What about you?
Do forward this message; it may save lives!

The Treatment of High Blood Pressure with Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a highly effective therapy for curbing high blood pressure.

Hypertension is known as the “Silent Killer.” Did you know that 35% of hypertensive Americans are unaware they have high blood pressure? Be aware and have your blood pressure checked regularly by a Acupuncture physician to ensure that you are not on a blood pressure up-climb.
There are two types of high blood pressure. The first is known as Essential or Labile Hypertension. Here, there is no known cause (idiopathic), although stress is thought to be a major contributing factor. Stress is a natural biological function related to the adrenal glands, which regulate the heartbeat, kidney function, and elimination. Alcohol and caffeine consumption (stimulants), obesity, and genetic predispositions must also be addressed. Only when these factors (as well as diseases, cancers, and tumors of the heart, liver, kidneys, and hormonal system) that characterize Secondary Hypertension are ruled out as causations of high blood pressure, can a diagnosis of Essential Hypertension be made.

The second type of hypertension is called Organic or Secondary Hypertension. Diet, smoking, consumption of high fat foods and certain lifestyles contribute to this type of hypertension.

Traditional Chinese Medicine views hypertension as a state where there exists an imbalance of blood, Qi, and moisture being supplied to the organs of the body. Aside from measuring a patient’s blood pressure, an Acupuncture Physician can determine the root organ cause of high blood pressure by observing certain symptoms (headache, dizziness, eye disorders, palpitations, poor memory, insomnia, and ringing in the ears).

By inserting acupuncture needles into specific points, a neuro-chemical message is sent via the nervous and endocrine systems to the portion of the brain that corresponds to the unbalanced organ of the body. The brain then releases endorphins (natural pain killers) to various opioid receptors which signal the organ(s) to relax and return to normal functioning levels. As these organs return to normal function, the regulation of blood pressure follows. Acupuncture is highly effective when high blood pressure is detected in its early stages before the point at which arteries commence hardening, blood clots form (conditions that lead to heart attack or stroke). Regular treatments of acupuncture can reduce high blood pressure and stress in the long run.