Google Life Sciences, a research group recently spun off from its parent corporation, is teaming with the American Heart Association in a $US50 million project to find new ways to fight heart disease. The heart association’s half, $US25 million over five years, is the largest single research Read more…
“Poop Heart Connection” the Dirty Little Secret!
We have all heard the saying: “We are what we eat”.
At a simplistic high level, it certainly makes a lot of sense. The nutrients that are absorbed by our stomach or the gut feeds the rest of the body.
Maintaining a healthy heart, or a healthy Read more…
A few years ago I got tired of being old and out of shape. Creaky knees ruled out jogging so I decided to start riding a bicycle to improve my fitness.
Hated the bike. The first time I rode I was exhausted just from doing a five-mile loop around my neighborhood.
It was hard to stick with it.Read more…
Free Heart Community for folks with heart disease and their families
Join the Free Heart Community: http://heartcommunity.empoweredmind.com Resources and tools to help folks with heart disease recover faster and stay out of the hospital longer. Also for friends and family members to preventRead more…
Heart on a Chip to Replace Animals for Testing Cardiac Drugs
Cardiac drug testing is a challenging business, potential subjects often being weak and not subject to clinical trials. Now researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an organ-on-a-chip device that hosts live human cardiac cells. TheRead more…
Mind-body techniques reduce your risks and/or speed up recovery of heart disease
A private community for people with heart disease and their families
Use Mind-body & the latest Brain Science techniques to speed-up recovery from heart attack & any other cardiac event.
Overcome fear, manageRead more…
Mindfulness Makes A Huge Difference In Heart Health; Improves Self-Awareness
More often than not, you hear “mindfulness” ahead of “meditation,” a practice in which people train to be more aware of their every moment. Mindfulness meditation has been linked to lower emotional and chemical stressRead more…
How Social Support Can Eases Heart Disease Recovery
In this study, 3,432 male and female heart attack patients, ages 18 to 55, were surveyed at one month after their heart attacks and again at 12 months after. They answered questions about how much social support they had. The researchersRead more…
A cardiac event such as a heart attack is a major traumatic event in one’s life. Heart attack in many cases, results in a range of emotions a person feels. In some case the “cardiac spouse” may experience similar feelings too. All of a suddenRead more…
Heart attacks may not be strongly associated with genes or family history, but bad lifestyle habits may be responsible for heart attacks.
Previous studies have revealed that genes are linked with heart attacks. However, a new study conducted by the researchers from the IntermountainRead more…