I had early
heart attack symptoms and lived to tell the story. Some
people
aren't so lucky.
For 30% of the 1.2 million heart
attack victims each year the first
sign of a
heart problems is
sudden death. Half of
these unexpected events occur in women.
My name is
Gene Millen, your
heart health
coach and the
owner of this website with my wife Bernie.
My early
heart attack symptoms consisted of what I would
describe as a "tingling" in my chest. It only showed
up occasionally and I attributed it to "caffeine
overload."
On the advice of my family physician I
went in for what was described as a routine treadmill
test.
After getting wired up and walking for
less than two minutes (It seemed like an eternity.) my
heart was pounding in my chest and my breath was coming in short, labored gasps.
Thankfully
the technician stopped the
instrument of torture and I was escorted to a chair for a
welcome rest.
As
my pulse returned to normal my brain played a flashback of
my exercise motto. "If I get the desire to exercise I'll lie
down until it goes away."
I
was jarred back to reality by a pleasant nurse who
interrupted my daydreaming to announce authoritatively, "The
cardiologist will see you now."
Click here for the rest of Gene's story.
I want to help you and my other readers learn
exactly what causes heart attacks and strokes and
how we can keep them at bay without taking
debilitating prescription drugs!
I'm continually sifting through the latest research
for the information we need to know to recognize
heart attack symptoms keep
our hearts as strong and vital as our Creator
designed them to be.
I have
successfully resisted the "suggestions" by more than
one doctor that I take statin drugs,
beta blockers
and other "heart medications."
So far it
is working great. I have an
excellent primary care physician now who accepts my
natural approach, although he has mentioned that I
am a little weird.
After my recent annual checkup
he said with a wry smile.
"If everyone took care of themselves the way you do
I wouldn't have to prescribe all of these drugs."
Are you
confused by conflicting claims and media hype about
heart disease? Who wouldn't be? National author and
fitness consultant, James Rippee says it better than
I could.
"We have too much knowledge, too
much media exposure to breakthroughs
and controversies. What we need is more common
sense!"
As Will Rogers so aptly put it, "Common sense ain't
common."
It's my
aim to cut through the myths and hype and help you
understand what the really important
heart attack
symptoms are for men and
women
heart attack symptoms; and how you can improve your odds of
living a vital active and prescription drug free life.
Here's
some food for thought.
In
INTERHEART Study of 15,000 heart attack patients the
researchers rated the top nine risk factors for
heart disease...and high cholesterol was not in the
top five.
I'll show you
some heart attack warning signs and heart attack
prevention strategies that will keep your heart
ticking for a long, long time!
I invite
you to browse the website and read some of the
articles. We also have some FREE stuff that I think
you will find interesting and informative.
Gene