Since February is Heart Health month, our experts have summarized some easy and simple and natural tips to strengthen your heart. These tips can help prevent and reduce the risk of developing heart disease and also help improve your heart function.
(As always, consult with your own doctor before starting an exercise program if you have heart or other health problems.)
Ten Tips to Strengthen Your Heart
Regular exercise has been proven time and time again to be one of the best natural tips to strengthen your heart.
Cardio exercise to strengthen your heart
Most people don’t realize that the heart is a muscle and just like other muscles, the heart responses to exercise (both cardio and weightlifting).
Regular endurance exercise of thirty minutes or more a day has been shown to help strengthen the heart by
- Cardio
- Weight lifting
- Flexibility exercises like yoga and Pilates
- Not sitting – get up and move
- Sleep
- Stress
- Blood Pressure
- Weight loss
- Stop smoking
- watch alcohol intake