14 Bad Habits That Can Destroy Your Heart

today we're going to talk about the 14 bad habits that can potentially ruin your heart let's get to number one believing everything you read on labels let's start off with this one right here corn oil how can this be heart healthy what in here helps your heart this is industrial processed seed oil that has been highly refined and apparently this stays in the shelf for a long time do you realize that an average person consumes eight of these every year that's like between 25 and 30% of are calories this is a gallon and this is

supposed to be healthy for our heart here's another one that's healthy for your heart instant oatmeal you're talking a lot of sugar in here and it said heart healthy and here we have another one honey and nut Cheerios just different combinations of ingredients including sugar I like this Grandma makes my heart happy that's that's good marketing both seed oils and these whole grains are high in Omega 6 and Omega 6 is pro-inflammatory it creates inflammation and on top of that they're going to add all this extra sugar and refine starches I highly doubt it's going

to lower your cholesterol in fact it may just increase your cholesterol but I think you should personally just consume it and then retest your cholesterol and see what it really does all right number two stay out of the sun use suntan lotion Sun can cause cancer stay away from it well this is going to reduce our vitamin D thereby increasing our risk for heart attacks by roughly 32% based on a study that I'm going to put down below in fact one of the best remedies for high blood pressure is vitamin D so avoiding the sun

is not a good idea let's get to number three excessive sitting or a sedentary lifestyle there's a fascinating study that shows an increased risk of heart disease by 147% and not only heart attacks but Strokes as well now if we compare sedentary people versus people that exercise sedentary people have an increased risk of dying from a heart attack by over 50% exercise improves your Fitness that's that extra buffer that extra resource to help you cope with stress and live longer number four the overuse of certain medications sometimes we normalize medications it's normal to be on

medications over the age of 50 we don't tend to look at the side effects as much because everyone's on medication and your doctor told you to take medication so it must be fine but even over-the-counter medications can increase your risk of getting heart attacks by over 50% I mean there's so many medications that stress the heart chemotherapy will definitely increase the risk of eting a heart attack and especially HRT hormone placement therapy can increase the risk of getting Heart Attack by 29% so work with a doctor that's open to using Alternative forms of remedies for

various conditions number five snacks especially the late night snacks especially if they're carbohydrate snacks I used to do this on a regular basis I loved chips I would do ice cream and that snack before bed ruined your ability to burn any fat through the night you burn most the fat when you're sleeping if you don't eat anything but that doesn't happen if you eat something before you go to bed especially if it's carbs also growth hormone spikes mostly at night so growth hormone is the anti-aging hormone it helps burn fat and it'll be nullified when

you eat these carbs before bed unfortunately so don't eat any snacks between the meals and especially after dinner number six drinking a lot of water but also at the same time being on a low salt diet what you're doing is you're diluting a very important electrolyte called sodium what might happen is you might develop a condition called hypo nutria which is low sodium in the blood hypon neuta actually can cause a heart attack swelling in the brain and all sorts of side effects all the water is going to create a lot of pressure on the

kidneys in the heart because your body has to get rid of the water and then you end up being dehydrated because you don't have the salt to retain that fluid the thing to do if you're salt sensitive is not to necessarily decrease sodium but to increase pottassium potassium will protect you against any dangers of sodium all right number seven ignoring Dental Care believe it or not in certain studies where they dissect the plaque in the arteries they have found in that plaque Dental bacteria now what is this bacteria from your mouth doing in your arteries

well there's there's something called gum disease we can develop infections underneath the teeth especially if you had a root canal and there's a lot of lymphatic tissue down there and then that can leak into the lymphatic system get into the blood supply and it can circulate throughout the body the last thing you want to do is is create an infection underneath the tooth that's very very difficult to to identify these infections underneath the teeth can actually eat up your bone and you have to do a special a 3D x-ray to identify necrosis of the bone

all coming from an infection number eight mouth breathing it's a bad habit and I'm talking mainly when you're sleeping you should really practice breathing through your nose now why is this so important there's a physical phenomena that's called the bore phenomena where you're breathing in oxygen okay but that oxygen that goes into the red blood cell cannot be released unless you have a certain amount of CO2 so this is why when you hyperventilate and you get all this oxygen and you go into a panic attack breathe into a paper bag why so you can get

more CO2 to allow the oxygen to go into the tissues so by nose breathing you're actually adding more CO2 it might feel like you're getting less oxygen but you're actually getting more oxygen when you breathe through your nose because you're mixing more CO2 some people get this little tape that you can put on your mouth that's available too but nose breathing can greatly enhance your ability to sleep it can help as sleep apnea it can also help with snoring number n microplastics now you can be exposed to a lot of microplastics from many different sources

consuming water and plastic bottles that are especially heated plastic chemicals on the inside of certain cans they're now finding that an average person has a lot of these microplastics very tiny pieces of plastic in their blood where is all this plastic coming from well it's coming in our fluid Supply because a lot of the Plastics get into the soil there's a lot of microplastics in the ocean but a lot of these Plastics don't get filter out unfortunately number 10 feeling out of breath very easily when you start to exercise let's say you've been exercising for

a while and you're exerting yourself and you get out of breath super easy you have an intolerance for exercise this is a classic sign of congestive heart failure there's something wrong with the heart that you need to evaluate don't ignore that all right number 11 jet leg which greatly affects your sleep cycles also a lot of people when they fly their ankles or their body starts filling up with fluid so they start getting fluid retention and they get this huge expansion on their feet and so if you do fly frequently what you should do is

you should be taking nasin nasin helps to support the mitochondria it's very very important nutrient it's vitamin B3 I would recommend taking about 250 milligrams every day at least make sure you take the one that creates the flushing sometimes you have to start with a smaller amount and gradually increase it another thing to take with jet leg is higher doses of vitamin D3 about 20,000 IUS of vitamin D3 before you started flying you would find the jet leg being a lot less because vitamin D3 helps to readjust the Circadian rhythm regulation number 12 excessive cardio

without enough rest when you exercise a type of exercise that's really hard on the body is this sustained postrate exercise you are just bringing the Pate up and you're sustaining it over a period of time the point is that it can create extra stress on the heart this is why you see a lot of these Runners who look like they're in shape they have problems in their arteries and so if you are a runner it's called a CAC test it stands for coronary artery calcification score it's not that expensive it's very valuable in the predicting

your overall mortality number 13 secondhand smoke but secondhand smoke can also be a problem because you're not usually you know you don't have a filter in your mouth you're just getting it that can actually increase your risk of getting Heart Attack by 25 to 30% and this is probably because it decreases oxygen into the body not to mention all the chemicals there's over 7,000 different chemicals when you smoke and 70 of them are carcinogenic so avoid secondhand smoke and and also firsthand smoke number 14 refined Foods out of all the nutrients that are super important

for the heart magnesium is at the top of the list because number one most people are not getting enough magnesium from their diet and they're eating things that are depleting magnesium and it's virtually impossible the test accurately your magnesium levels you can't rely on the blood test like 99% of your magnesium is not in the blood most of it is inside the cell magnesium is involved in 300 different enzymes especially in helping you sleep lowering your risk for cramping as well as decreasing your risk for arrhythmias and also preventing calcium building up in the heart

one really simple way to lower blood pressure is to take not just vitamin D3 but magnesium with it good habits you should also add to this cold showers or even cold immersion produces so many positive changes watching comedies laughing more all of these things are super important in lowering stress and improving sleep now since we're on the topic of cardiovascular function if you have not seen this video on heart health you should check it out I put it up right here