Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease includes heart attack, stroke, and diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
Heart disease is the number two killer in men and women in the U.S. and strokes are the #3 killer after heart disease and cancer.
One in four Americans over 40 are at risk for developing the irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, a major cause of stroke.
65 million (30%) adults have high blood pressure in the U.S.
Up to 70% of people will end up with above normal blood pressure.
high cholesterol – U.S. average is 210-220
-- Rural Chinese average is 125-130
Chest pain or shortness of breath signals the cry of a starving heart. The classic male symptoms of heart disease are frequently absent in women. Instead women may experience a variety of symptoms: shortness of breath, fatigue, even back pain.
People with total cholesterol of 240 and above have double the risk of heart disease as those who keep their cholesterol under 200, according to the American Heart Association.
The first symptoms of heart disease are not just high cholesterol and blood pressure. depression is also an early symptom.
Cardiovascular System Dysfunction
Associated with:
- diabetes
- Liver disease
- Kidney disease
- Maldigestion/Malabsorption –Stomach, Small Intestine-Leaky Gut Syndrome
- Thyroid dysfunction/disease
Symptoms of Imbalance in the Cardiovascular System:
- difficulty breathing at night
- chest pain while walking
- back pain- 90% of all back pain is visceral in origin
- heaviness in legs
- calf muscle cramps while walking
- heart pounds easily
- Heartburn
- out of breath and exhausted with average exercise
- cold hands and feet
- Numbness and burning in hands and feet
- slurred speech
- poor concentration
- ringing in the ears
- pain when getting up in the morning in back of head and neck
- dizziness/vertigo
- blushing with no cause, flushing of skin
Symptoms of Cardiovascular Disease:
- Fatigue – slower blood flow, low oxygen to cells, high toxic build up
- Back pain – middle back, neck, left jaw, left arm
- Headaches
- Shortness of breath, seem to fatigue easily with a walk up stairs
- Dizziness, lightheadedness
- Palpitation of heart – skipped heart beat
- Tachycardia – fast heart beat, racing heart beat
- Swelling in the feet/ankles/legs
- Nervousness, anxiety, jitteriness, anxious feelings, like the body is racing
- Chest pain and tightness
- Eye symptoms – blurred vision, reduced vision
- ALL symptoms – when you lower blood flow to an organ it lowers function, which leads to dysfunction and ultimately disease by lowering oxygen and nutrients and raising waste and toxins.
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