With age, the heart becomes more sensitive to nicotine, alcohol and abrupt changes in the daily regimen. Strengthening the heart muscle begins with the rejection of cigarettes. You should reconsider your usual alcohol rate in the direction of its decrease to 50 g per day. After consulting a nutritionist in the diet, you need to introduce healthy products for the cardiovascular system.
1. How to strengthen the heart with vitamins. Vitamin A for the heart is more needed in the form of beta-carotene. The elasticity of capillary walls depends on beta-carotene. Rich sources of vitamin A are liver, garlic, viburnum, butter , apricots, peaches, carrots, peppers. A moderate amount of it is found in almost all berries.
Vitamin C is involved in the regulation of cholesterol in the blood. Blood coagulation largely depends on the regular use of vitamin C. Ascorbic acid successfully utilizes free radicals in the blood and lowers blood pressure. To strengthen the heart, it is necessary to include rose hips, currants, sea buckthorn, kiwi, strawberries, viburnum, mountain ash, cabbage of all varieties and fruits of the genus citrus in the diet.
Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant. Significantly affects the normalization of blood viscosity. Therefore, you should reduce the intake of vitamin E in the treatment of anticoagulants. Sources of vitamin E are almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, dried apricots, sea buckthorn, oatmeal, eggs, and fatty fish. For full assimilation, vitamin E must be consumed with fats.
Vitamin E strengthens the cardiovascular system in combination with selenium.
2. How to strengthen the heart with selenium. Some enzymes of the antioxidant system are synthesized only with the participation of selenium. The microelement deficiency of selenium provokes a low level of absorption of vitamin E. It should be borne in mind that canned foods or concentrates contain less selenium than fresh foods. To provide selenium to the heart muscle, you need to consume more liver, seafood, eggs, corn, beans, rice, lentils, peanuts.
3. When a weak heartbeat has become a chronic problem, you can use an ancient recipe. It is based on a combination of honey with various vitamin products. The ingredients are changing in the medicine of different countries, but the principle remains the same. For example, in one book of the Middle Ages a recipe is described. Here it is: take 1 tablespoon of honey, dip into the cooked rosehip broth. Boil the broth for 10 minutes from 1 tablespoon of wild rose and two glasses of water. Means for strengthening the heart to drink half a glass throughout the day. Instead of wild rose, horseradish, garlic, lemons, raisins, their combinations and other fruits, nuts are used.
4. How to strengthen the heart with magnesium. Magnesium affects the expansion of blood vessels, supports the cardiovascular system in a healthy state. It should be borne in mind that exceeding the daily norm of calcium and fat prevents the body from absorbing magnesium. Alcohol intensively leaches magnesium, and caffeine and excess potassium lead to significant losses of magnesium along with urine. Magnesium is found in halva, in seaweed, in oatmeal and millet, in watermelons, boletus, nuts, especially in almonds. Magnesium-rich mustard, beans and peas.
5. How to strengthen the heart with iodine. Iodine ions are involved in all major metabolic processes in the body. You can saturate the body with iodine, including walnuts, seafood, kelp, fish, milk, eggs, grapes in the diet.
In a diet that is good for the heart, salt is limited as much as possible. Cholesterol metabolism is enhanced by vegetable oils.
It is important to establish the norm of necessary physical activity and systematically adhere to it. For some, this is a simple daily walk, and someone prefers to periodically break out into the mountains.