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Page 10 | Abby's Magazine | www.AbbysMag.com The heart is the most important organ in the body. Some doctors may argue that it's the brain, yet technically speaking if the brain shuts down you are just "brain dead" since the rest of your body continues to function. If your heart shuts down, then your entire body shuts down. In that case, if our heart is the most important organ of our body, shouldn't our #1 priority be to take care of it? Yet, 1 in 4 deaths are caused from heart disease in the United States every year. Which totals out to be around 659,000 people in the United States dying from heart disease every year. What are we doing wrong? What could we do differently to decrease this number? I'm so glad you asked. Cardiac disease can consist of many types. Blood vessel disease, such as coronary artery disease, heart rhythm problems, heart defects you're born with, heart valve diseases, disease of the heart muscle, and heart infection. Signs and symptoms to look for when referring to heart disease depends on the type of heart disease. Overall, many of the symptoms overlap to be chest pain, chest pressure or discomfort, slow or fast heartbeats, shortness of breath, easily tired from physical activity, swelling of hands, ankles, or feet. Now the treatments most doctors advertise are maybe blood thinners, high blood pressure medication, heart bypass surgery, pacemakers, etc. These are all examples of treatment towards the symptoms of heart disease, but necessarily aiming for treating the cause of their heart disease. Why has no one mentioned what the patient could do differently in their lifestyle? Or better yet, why has no one checked to see if the patient has any interferences in their spine? These are big and bold questions to ask. Why would a patient with heart disease need to change their lifestyle? Major risk factors are high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, and smoking. Other medical conditions and lifestyle choices can put people at higher risk for heart disease including diabetes, overweight and obesity, physical inactivity, excessive alcohol use. High blood cholesterol levels most times come from the foods we ingest into our bodies such as a high sodium diet. If we reduced the amount of sodium intake, we are reducing our chances of having high blood cholesterol. If we avoid high fat foods such as anything fried, we are reducing our chances of having heartburn. If we avoid smoking, we are reducing our chances of having our heart work harder to get oxygenated blood to our lungs. If we exercise, we are strengthening our heart muscle to allow it to work at its best. We mentioned before about interference throughout the spine. Now why in the world would we need to bring our spine in the picture if we are talking about our heart? And don't we prefer finding the cause of the problem and not necessarily how to suppress Heart Disease and Interference at the Spinal level