Healthy hearts mean healthy communities.
Prosperous communities promote awareness of healthy hearts.
The more hearts we keep going, the healthier and productive the community. Healthy hearts mean fewer people are dying, and their close relatives and friends are leaving the community.
I am not sure most people understand the importance of drinking enough water and taking Aspirin. If you have seen the following, it never hurts to be reminded of helpful information.
A good thing to know from the Mayo Clinic is that a cardiologist determined dehydration can trigger heart attacks.
Drinking more water can maintain a healthy heart.
How many people do you know who say they do not want to drink anything before going to bed because they will have to get up during the night? Drinking one glass of water before bed can prevent a stroke or a heart attack.
Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down, and the lower body (legs) is level with the kidneys, the kidneys remove the water because it is easier. You need your minimum water to help flush the toxins out of your body, but this was news to me.
Water at bedtime will also help prevent nighttime leg cramps. Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up.
The Mayo Clinic on Aspirin and Healthy Hearts
Dr. Virend Somers is a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic. “Most heart attacks occur during the day, generally between 6 A.M. and noon”.
What would you do if you saw someone having a heart attack?
Having one during the night, when the heart should be most at rest, means something unusual happened. Somers and his colleagues have been working for decades to show that sleep apnea is to blame.
- If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night. Aspirin has a 24-hour “half-life,” so if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the Aspirin will be most active in your system.
- Aspirin lasts a long time in your medicine cabinet – years! (When it gets old, it smells like vinegar.)
Why keep Aspirin by your bedside?
It’s about Heart Attacks – There are other symptoms of a heart attack besides the pain in the left arm. One must also be aware of intense pain on the chin, nausea, and 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, the chest pain may wake you from deep sleep if it occurs. If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins and swallow them with water.
Life is a one-time gift, so forward this information. I hope this will help save someone.
Quotable quotes
“The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work”. David Suzuki
Physical activity – even if you don’t lose an ounce, you’ll live longer, feel healthier and be less likely to get cancer, heart disease, stroke and arthritis. It’s the closest thing we have to a wonder drug. Tom Frieden