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Produced in an easy-to-follow, friendly style by three heart and nutrition experts, DASH Diet for Dummies reveals how increasing fiber, vitamins, and minerals, along with reducing your sodium intake when needed, can lower your blood pressure in just two weeks.

What if you could see the toll that over-work, too much sugar or bad sleep really take on your system? What if you knew what boosts your energy, and what saps it, and when you are heading for burnout? What if you could feel more vitality and joy, have stronger will power and live longer? With the aid of your phone, smartwatch or a wearable heart rate monitor and The Pulse Cure, you can. The key lies in measuring your heart rate variability - the distance between your heart beats - which indicates what is happening in your autonomic nervous system.

An estimated 1.28 billion adults worldwide have hypertension. And about half don't even know they have it. That's because high blood pressure develops with no signs or symptoms...until it has caused serious damage. Mayo Clinic on High Blood Pressure offers information and tools to help you keep blood pressure from building to dangerous levels. By taking specific steps, you can live well with high blood pressure—and even keep it from ever forming. In this book, Gary Schwartz, M.D., tells you how.

The New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, The End of Diabetes, and The End of Dieting presents a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse heart disease, the leading cause of death in America—coinciding with the author’s new medical study...

High blood pressure is one of the leading causes of disability or death due to stroke, heart attack, heart failure and kidney failure. After improving for a period of several years, the tables seem to have turned again. Now, even with the awareness and risks involved with this silent killer, high blood pressure continues to claim more lives and has become a serious problem. Nutrition and exercise are the keys to healthier living and Dr. Colbert explains how to make them work.

Revised and updated, Diabetes A to Z covers everything a person living with diabetes needs to know in simple, direct, and easy-to-understand language. Whether the topic is eye disease, high blood pressure, or skin care, Diabetes A to Z gives the answers curious listeners want to know. This new edition contains a variety of important updates, including information on new medications and insulins, new nutrition recommendations to match the Associations new dietary guidelines, an all new insurance section discussing new coverage options and details, and much more.

The Haywire Heart is the first book to examine heart conditions in athletes. Intended for anyone who competes in endurance sports like cycling, triathlon, running races of all distances, and cross-country skiing, The Haywire Heart presents the evidence that going too hard or too long can damage your heart forever. You'll find what to watch out for, what to do about it, and how to protect your heart so you can enjoy the sports you love for years to come.

Heart disease is the number-one killer in the world. Despite ever-advancing medical procedures and more powerful pharmaceutical drugs, the rate of heart disease continues to rise. According to Dr. Stephen Hussey, this is due in part to misunderstandings about how the heart really functions and how to keep it healthy. These misunderstandings result in improper medical approaches and off-target intervention therapies.

Nine million Americans are touched by aneurysms during their lifetimes. This is one story of love. Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of the author's harrowing experience of an aneurysm and his road to recovery. It is a journey of love and devotion and a clash of medical beliefs and countercultures.

With your permission, I want to take you on a journey of reclaiming your health. You will not be disappointed. This go-to-guide will show you how to live a healthy lifestyle by eating wholesome foods for a strong heart. You will learn the importance of maintaining a healthy heart. And find out life-saving emergency care for anyone who is suffering through a heart attack.

G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first doctors to operate deep inside the human heart.

Scientific factors in our diets and lifestyles influence our risk of cardiovascular disease, and what's good for our hearts also tends to be good for our guts, our brains, livers, and weight control, reduces our risk of many forms of cancer, and even helps us to age well. Dr Joanna McMillan cuts through the nonsense, bust the myths and misconceptions, and provides insights from the extraordinary science of lifestyle medicine to help you take pleasure and joy in eating and living well so you can give and get more from life.

There's no doubt about it: people with heart disease lack energy. The heart needs a large amount of oxygenated blood flow to continuously meet its huge energy demands. Board-certified cardiologist Stephen T. Sinatra knows that understanding energy metabolism in the heart is critical to devising effective therapies for treating heart disease.

The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be...

In his new book, The Simple Heart Cure, you'll find this top doc's groundbreaking approach to preventing and reversing heart disease - an approach honed by his study of foreign cultures free of heart disease and decades of experience helping patients achieve a healthier heart at any age. Dr. Crandall is living proof of his program's success.

Ein Herzinfakt kann auch eine neue Chance sein! 160 km/h auf der Autobahn – und dein Herz sagt Stopp. In diesem Augenblick rast nicht nur der Verkehr an dir vorbei, sondern dein ganzes Leben. Die folgende Bushaltestelle könnte deine letzte sein, aber das Universum hat andere Pläne. Oliver Gaw hat zwei Herzinfarkte überlebt und sieht darin keine Endstation, sondern eine zweite Chance.

¿Y si el colesterol no fuera el malo de esta historia? Durante años nos dijeron que el colesterol era el enemigo. Que había que bajarlo, combatirlo, eliminarlo. Que era el culpable silencioso de los infartos, las arterias tapadas y la muerte prematura. Y mientras repetíamos ese discurso sin...

Алексей Фёдоров – врач-кардиохирург, кандидат медицинских наук, заведующий операционным отделением Центра сердечно-сосудистой хирургии Главного военного клинического госпиталя им. академика Н.Н. Бурденко МО РФ, научный редактор, редактор раздела «Медицина и наука» и колумнист журнала "Здоровье". В то время как лучшие физики мира пытаются разработать вечный двигатель, я держу его в руках несколько раз в неделю. Иногда останавливаю, но обязательно запускаю снова. Догадались? Конечно же речь идет про сердце.

Ce qu’il faut savoir sur le cœur pour mieux le comprendre, bien le soigner et prévenir la maladie!

Тамаз Гаглошвили — врач-кардиолог, геронтолог, организатор здравоохранения, автор блога о здоровье сердечно-сосудистой системы Blog_kardiologa.