One Weird Reason Why You Do NOT Want To Survive A Heart Attack?

Heart disease is the number one killer in the US.

It can be a silent killer and has the ability to be very DEADLY.

Reducing your risk factors for a heart attack should be your number one priority.

But there is another risk to your heart health, and that is heart failure.

Heart Failure

In the Western world, heart failure is the biggest cause of cardiovascular death.

Heart failure occurs because of a weakening of the heart over time or from injury to the cardiac muscles, which control the beating of your heart, or lifestyle choices.

As a result, your heart is unable to pump as much oxygen-rich blood to your body.

Due to the lack of oxygen, this could cause damage and loss of function of many organs.

Even though heart failure is a very serious condition, it is important to note that your heart is STILL BEATING, but just not efficiently.

Here are statistics on heart failure:

• 5.8 million people have heart failure in the US; and 300,000 people die each year from complications associated with heart failure

• It is estimated that 670,000 people are diagnosed every year

• 1 in 5 people die from heart failure within the first year

• In 2010, heart failure cost the US $39.2 billion dollars

• Most common causes of heart failure are: coronary heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes

Proper diet, exercise and adherence to medications, can help people live longer and fuller lives with heart failure.

Effects of Heart Failure

When you experience a heart attack, damage occurs to your heart muscle.

This damage, according to research, can change the size, shape, and function of your heart.

After a heart attack your heart undergoes cardiac remodeling, which is a result from lack of oxygen to the heart muscle.

Remodeling, when it comes to your heart, refers to something potentially deadly.

Cardiac remolding, according to research, results in structural changes to your heart, mostly occurring in the left ventricle.

Your left ventricle is a chamber in your heart that pumps out blood to the rest of your body.

According to research, you can experience a thickening of your left ventricle wall, called left ventricular hypertrophy, which could cause a decline in left ventricle function.

This could decrease your systolic function and your stroke volume

The Research with Omega-3s

Researchers aimed to determine if Krill oil could be beneficial during cardiac remodeling after a heart attack and in heart failure.

The study separated mice into a pre-treatment with Krill oil before MI (heart attack), post MI treatment group and a placebo.

They discovered pre-treated mice (before the onset of a heart attack), showed significant benefits after the heart attack.

The pre-treated group showed lower heart weight, lung weight, and other factors related to cardiac remodeling.

Comparatively, the post MI group only increased ventricular dilatation (opening of the left ventricle).

During cardiac remodeling, research suggests, there could be increased inflammatory cytokines present in the heart.

Increasing omega-3 fatty acids could alter the ratio between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, potentially reducing inflammation during cardiac remodeling.

Omega-3s have the potential to reduce inflammatory cytokines present during cardiac remodeling.

The researchers noted that by introducing omega-3 fatty acids, the mice showed an increase in EPA and DHA concentrations in the heart muscle; and by increasing omega-3 fatty acids, this reduced the concentration of saturated fatty acids found in the heart.

The researchers found Krill oil was not only able to increase DHA and EPA concentrations in the blood, but also the concentration in the heart’s cell membrane.

They also found that increasing omega-3 fatty acids into the heart muscle showed the potential for increasing or maintaining myocardial oxidative function.

The Amazing Power Of Omega-3s

Omega-3 fatty acids have the potential to improve heart health.

Now, research suggests, that omega-3 fatty acids not only play a role in cholesterol management, but can also affect inflammation associated cardiac remodeling and in heart failure.

Different clinical research shows that omega-3 fatty acids have the potential to reduce inflammation by altering the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio.

And this could improve your heart health - for the better.