Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) develops when your coronary arteries, the major blood vessels that supply your heart with blood, oxygen and nutrients become damaged or diseased. When waxy plaques (a form of fat) build up, they narrow your coronary arteries, decreasing blood flow to your heart. Over time, this can greatly reduce blood flow through your arteries, and the risk of a serious outcome grows.
Note that, Coronary Artery Disease often develops over decades, it can go unnoticed until you have a heart attack.
Symptoms of CAD
• Chest pain (angina) • Fatigue • Irregular heart beats •
Shortness of breath • Restlessness • Coughing • Dizziness
• Heart attack
Causes of CAD
• Smoking • High blood pressure • High cholesterol • Diabetes or insulin resistance • Radiation therapy to the chest, as used for certain types of cancer • Sedentary lifestyle
LIFESTYLE AND HOME REMEDIES
Leading a healthy lifestyle can help keep your arteries strong and clear of plaques. To improve your heart health, you can:
• Quit smoking: The chemicals in tobacco smoke harm your blood cells. They also can damage the function of your heart and the structure and function of your blood vessels. This damage increases your risk of CAD.
• Control conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes
• Stay physically active
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Reduce and manage stress: Stress can damage your heart. If you are often under stress, you will more likely have heart disease, high blood pressure, chest pain or irregular heartbeats. Stress can raise your blood pressure to unhealthy levels.
• Eat your way to better heart health: Because LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) levels affect your heart health, you should add foods into your diet that are low in cholesterol e.g. garlic, avocado, turmeric, green vegetables, olive oil, chia seeds, flaxseed, Okro, sweet potatoe, beans and legumes.
It’s also important to limit your intake of foods that raise cholesterol, such as sugar, sweets, processed oils, packaged foods of all kinds, duck, pasta, ghee, some dairy products, coffee, granola, shrimps, margarine, organ meats like liver, kidney etc
• Try aromatherapy: Evidence shows that aromatherapy can lower your levels of stress and anxiety, and some evidence even shows that you can effect your cardiovascular system with aromatherapy as well.
If you would like to try using essential oils to lower your heart disease risk, these are some of your best bets: Basil, Marjoram, Clary Sage to mention a few.
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
From the sound if it, there’s plenty you can do to prevent and treat CAD. Start by committing to a healthy lifestyle.
Coronary Artery Disease prevention/treatment is possible. You can reduce/eliminate the risks of CAD with herbal supplements or homeopathic medicines, call the herbalist in the House, Oluwafunmise, on 08028366901/08183554665 and join our whatsapp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/B8K4nNdwD39IOH2dfzbUbY to learn more about health tips to improve our general well being. Kindly share with your contacts.
