Tag: heart health

If you want a healthy heart, be an optimist according to the NY Times.

If you want a healthy heart, be an optimist according to the NY Times. Are you are glass half full or glass half empty type of person?  Glass half empty people are more pessimistic while glass half full types of people are more optimistic. My dad used to say “Think positive thoughts and positive things will happen”.  As you can imagine, he was optimistic by nature. When life was hard, he figured out ways to make it better and he ran two different successful businesses using this ethos. Data from a recent JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) paper Read More »

Make your heart younger with exercise according to the NY Times.

Make your heart younger with exercise according to the NY Times. In the chiropractic world, we always see mobility and movement as some of the essential elements of life, while a lack of movement is incompatible with life as we know it.  When someone becomes old and ill, often the lack of mobility leads to swollen limbs and infections, and a deconditioning of the heart. More research is now showing that if we exercise and stay active as we age, our heart will not only be healthier but can also become a more effective pump and even act as if Read More »

Statin Myopathy; is your doctor’s cholesterol obsession harming your health, and what is a healthier option?

Statin Myopathy; is your doctor’s cholesterol obsession harming your health, and what is a healthier option? Heart problems and the effects of clogged arteries on your heart, brain and circulatory system is a major concern for many of us, especially if one of our parents had had a heart attack or perhaps died from a problem in the circulatory system. While the familial concerns are valid to a point, there is growing evidence that the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs is nowhere near as effective in preventing heart attacks as perhaps the Mediterranean diet, and perhaps, their effects on your muscles Read More »