What makes cardiovascular disease happen?

Heart disease is still one of the main reasons for death around the world, affecting millions of people. We at One Health Clinics in Manoora think that knowing what causes heart disease is the first step to stopping it and getting better.

Our comprehensive approach to treating cardiovascular disease considers common risk factors and often overlooked effects on heart health. Pumping blood to every cell in our bodies, the heart works tirelessly throughout our lives. 

When this amazing organ experiences problems, the consequences can be extremely severe. Finding the causes of heart problems early on is important for taking natural steps towards prevention and recovery. Certain aspects of your lifestyle can contribute to heart disease.

What we do every day has a big effect on our heart health. One of the biggest causes of cardiovascular disease is still living a sedentary lifestyle. Our hearts need exercise to stay strong and work well when we don’t move around enough. Regular exercise helps keep blood pressure in a healthy range and improves circulation.

Making unhealthy food choices is also a major cause of heart disease. A diet full of processed foods, trans fats, refined carbohydrates, and too much salt makes it easy for plaque to build up and damage the arteries. Changes in food can have an effect on heart health right away, but how quickly? If you make healthy changes to the way you eat, your heart health can start to get better within weeks.

The modern, high-stress way of life is another important issue. Chronic stress causes inflammation in the body and releases hormones that can damage blood vessels over time. At One Health Clinics, adding stress management methods to a patient’s treatment plan often significantly improves their heart conditions. Mindfulness techniques, meditation, and working with your breath can all help your heart heal.

Metabolic Conditions and Heart Disease

Being overweight causes many problems for heart health. When you have extra weight, your heart has to work harder to pump blood to your whole body. Furthermore, fat tissue makes chemicals that cause inflammation, which can hurt blood vessels. 

Many patients want to know if losing weight can fix heart damage. Studies indicate that even small amounts of weight loss can make cardiovascular performance much better.

Heart health is especially at risk when you have type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance. A lot of sugar in the blood hurts the nerves and blood vessels that control the heart. Inflammation caused by diabetes also speeds up atherosclerosis, which is the hardening and shortening of arteries that cause heart attacks and strokes.

Over years, high blood pressure can happen without anyone noticing. This explains the term “silent killer.” When blood constantly presses too hard against the walls of vessels, it does tiny damage that turns into scars and stiffness over time. 

We’ve found that at One Health Clinics, patients can often become less dependent on blood pressure medications when they introduce changes to their food, deal with stress, and take specific supplements.

Environmental and Genetic Factors

Some heart disease risk factors are genetic or environmental, but many can be changed. Exposure to air pollution raises inflammation and oxidative stress all over the circulatory system. Many people wonder if changing to a place with cleaner air can help their heart health. Studies have indicated that it can.

There is no doubt that family background affects the risk of getting heart disease. If you have close relatives with heart disease, you may be more likely to get it, but genes aren’t destiny. Changes to your lifestyle can greatly lower your risk, even if you have a strong family background.

People often overlook the surroundings as a factor that affects sleep quality. Lack of sleep raises blood pressure, inflammation, and stress chemicals, all of which are bad for heart health. Making a sleep refuge and putting rest first can help your heart heal in a big way.

Wholesome Ways to Take Care of Your Heart

We treat cardiovascular problems in a wide range of ways at One Health Clinics. We try to find and treat the causes of heart conditions instead of just treating the signs. Our doctors help the heart heal by using a combination of diagnostic tests, lifestyle counselling, and natural treatments.

Nutritional treatment is what our method is based on. We help our patients switch to a diet that is low in inflammation and high in nutrients to help their hearts heal. Diets high in fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, and healthy fats are the building blocks for heart health. 

Many of our patients are curious about how quickly changes to their diet can affect their heart health. Often, we see improvements in their cholesterol levels just a few weeks after introducing changes to their diet.

Movement therapy improves circulation and makes the heart muscle stronger. Our doctors make custom exercise plans for each patient based on their present health and fitness level. When done regularly, even gentle forms of exercise like tai chi and yoga can have a big impact on heart health.

Stress-reduction methods are a big part of our heart health plans. Patients learn to turn on their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the body’s natural way of relaxing, through breathwork, meditation, and mindfulness techniques. Inflammation goes down, and healing substances can move more easily through the circulatory system. 

Taking specific supplements can help the heart heal even more. In a full heart health plan, coenzyme Q10, magnesium, omega-3 fatty acids, and adaptogenic plants may all be helpful. Our doctors carefully select the vitamins, taking into account the unique needs and biochemistry of each patient.

By focusing on the many factors that lead to cardiovascular disease, we help patients set themselves up for natural healing. Typical methods only focus on using medicine to control symptoms, but our all-around approaches try to get the cardiovascular system back to normal balance and function.

Holistic Approaches to Heart Health

We invite you to learn more about our cardiovascular disease therapy at One Health Clinics in Manoora if you are worried about your heart health or already have heart problems. Our team of skilled professionals specialises in heart disease therapies that complement standard care and address the underlying causes of heart disease.

By making personalised treatment plans, we’ve helped a lot of people naturally improve their heart health and become less dependent on medications.

You deserve the best care for your heart, care that is total, complete, and tailored to your specific needs. To begin your journey towards improved heart health, please contact One Health Clinics at your earliest convenience.