Menopause Heart Attack

From all the literature I have been reading lately women face a serious threat from death by heart attack or complications of heart disease after menopause. According to most of this information the only recourse is some type of hormone therapy or other medication to combat the loss of hormones due to menopause.

l took a few minutes to stop and think about this.

If menopause changes the hormones your body is producing and the hormone changes increase your risk of heart attack or heart disease then your best option is to make sure you have a healthy heart and/or body before this happens.

Let's look at this from a cause and effect type scenario. If you experience menopause and you have an unhealthy cardiovascular system then your chances of dying from a heart attack or related experience will definitely be higher. If your cardio system is relatively or exceptionally good then your chances of dying from these incidents goes way down.

So how can you make sure your heart health is at a high level?

Exercise, nutrition and elimination of damaging environmental factors.

Exercise: Make sure you have a good plan for healthy exercise that you can follow all the time no matter where you are. This includes a lot of walking, jogging and body-weight exercises like squats, push ups, and other core exercises. Full body core-type exercises that get your heart rate up and dial in your total body awareness are probably the most beneficial. (Raising your total body awareness is one of the things that increases your health in ways that can only be described as phenomenal!)

Nutrition: Your body is only as good as the fuel you give it. If you feed your body (the engine that drives you every day) trash, then you will get trashy performance. Get the idea? Find out what your body needs to perform at optimum performance, like a performance car works best with high octane petroleum. The best foods you can eat come in their own wrapper. Fruits, vegetables and lean meats are the best fuel you can buy. Avoid any processed food or any snack that comes in a plastic wrapper!

Eliminate environmental damage: There are many things in the environment that affect you: water, air, food, water, environmental psychology, water, food, supplements…did I mention water, pure filtered water? Invest in a good quality water filter and you can get pure water for less than 10 cents a gallon. When you learn how to filter the harmful effectors out of your life you give yourself a leg up on the rest of the population and a chance at longer life.

Stephen Gauss maintains a web site devoted to menopause and hormone replacement therapy at http://www.menopause-effects.com which he created after listening to relatives horror stories about the change and realizing that his wife will be approaching that time soon. Please join in the free user forum and browse the site for any information you may need.

Menopause and Heart Attack