Easy Ways To Know Your Heart Healthy Or Not.

This way you can do at home, in the mosques, even while on holiday in the wild though. The trick, sit on the floor with feet extended forward so that the toes facing upward. After that, reach your toes with your hands. If you are flexible enough to reach the tip of the toes with your hands, God willing, your heart is still healthy.

Conversely, if you have difficulty reaching fingertips stiff by hand, you can go to a heart specialist or a cardiologist to check the condition of your heart. Especially if you have pain in the chest, often a cold sweat, and signs of heart disease more. An easy way to know cardiovascular health has been published in the journal Heart and Circulatory Physiology. Researchers from the University of North Texas and a number of Japanese researchers have conducted experiments with 526 participants aged between 20 to 83 years.

Participants took the test the flexibility of the body with a measured blood pressure, the arteries and heart activity. The result, researchers found a correlation between the body that are not flexible with arteries that are not flexible, especially in participants over the age of 40 years. Participants who failed the test the flexibility of body failed to reach the tip of your toes turned out to have stiff blood vessels, and means the ability of the heart becomes less good, efficient and the risk of heart disease.

Dr. Yamamoto explained, although the theory of the relationship between back and leg muscles with muscle near his heart still vague - vague, but the presence of these studies are quite helpful. Stiffness of back muscles, legs and heart vessels that are interconnected is due to its collagen composition of the same.

"If you can touch your toes while sitting straight, your heart is still quite good. But if not, maybe you need to go to a cardiologist," said Dr. Yamamoto.

But Yamamoto is not always add muscle stiffness is a sign of heart disease, only the heart may be less fit and healthy than they should.