While heart disease should definitely be treated with medical intervention, there are times when its symptoms could be alleviated through homeopathic means. Homeopathy is a naturally safe form of medicine which focuses on treating the person as a whole rather than just the illness. Treatment using homeopathy is rather personalized and based on your temperament, [...]

If you want to know where in the world the heart-healthiest people live, look to the nations along the Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean diet is a heart-healthy diet plan adopted from the eating habits of people who live in the Mediterranean area such as Italy, Greece, Sicily, parts of France and Spain and even areas [...]

One of the contributing factors to heart disease is a condition called aortic stenosis. To understand what the condition is, you have to understand how the aortic valve operates in relation to a healthy heart. The aortic valve protects the left ventricle opening. When it opens, this causes the ventricle to pump blood so that [...]

If you are at risk for heart disease or your doctor has said that you do have it, there is no time for regrets on what might have been. Your past diet may have been littered with junk food, eating out and not enough healthy choices. Don't dwell on what you should have done then, [...]

Cholesterol has long been touted as a major bad guy in heart disease. That view has been slowly changing in the medical community, thanks to a number of studies and unanswered questions. First of all, if cholesterol is such a blood vessel blocker, why doesn’t it affect the veins in the body? Cholesterol travels in [...]

Heart disease is a killer that does not discriminate between men and women or even the various cultures or socioeconomic backgrounds. In fact, it has been called a universal killer because more people die from heart disease each year than other illnesses – several million a year worldwide! With some people, heart disease is not [...]

The most worked organ in your body is the heart. It beats tirelessly when you are asleep and awake to push the blood throughout your body to supply all your parts with oxygenated blood and nutrients. However, you may not always take as good care with your heart as you need to, eating fatty foods [...]

Heart disease is not always about blocked arteries. It can also turn up as a condition called pericarditis which is an inflammation or swelling of the pericardium. The pericardium is the protective layer that surrounds the heart muscle. Pericarditis can be caused by a number of problems, not all of them heart related.

Many types of heart disease exist that cause a variety of problems with many of them leading to a heart attack. One of these heart diseases is called cardiac ischemia and affects the heart muscle itself. What happens is that the blood flow to the myocardium aka the heart muscle is reduced or completely blocked [...]

When the doctor tells you that you have heart arrhythmia, it is not necessarily a dire thing. An arrhythmia is a heart rhythm problem that is common and for most people, not harmful at all. Your heart produces electrical impulses which fire off to regulate your heart beat. When these electrical impulses become irregular, you [...]