How Exercise Helps With Heart Attack

Exercise is an important part of healthy living. There are many benefits to exercise, including helping to prevent many different health problems, including heart attacks. The heart is a muscle and needs regular exercise like any other muscle in the body. Exercise helps to improve your heart's performance. Exercise helps to strengthen the muscle walls as well as helps your blood flow through the vessels much more easily. With better blood flow, your vessels become more flexible, and flexible vessels means that hardening of your arteries is less likely. 

Other ways exercise helps to prevent heart attacks is by helping to lower your LDL cholesterol level. LDL is your bad cholesterol, and high levels of LDL increases your risk of heart attacks and strokes. Exercise also helps to lower your blood pressure. High blood pressure is another cause of heart attacks. If your blood pressure rises and stays high, your risks of a heart attack or stroke increase.

Exercise helps to keep your weight down. When you gain too much weight or are obese, this causes your heart to have to work harder to pump blood. It is taxing on your heart to carry to much extra weight. This extra weight can be hard on the heart, causing it to have to work harder to pump blood. This too can cause a heart attack.

Exercise also plays a role in stress levels. Exercise helps to release endorphins in the brain which give you "feel good" feelings and help to relieve stress. When your stress levels are down, your heart can work much more efficiently which will help to reduce your risk for a heart attack.

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