How to Check Your Own Heart Health

How to check your own heart health - To know the heart is still good or not, researchers have easy tips that simply by touching the tip of your toes. If your body is at the same time flexible to reach your toes, your heart is conversely quite healthy.

In the Journal Heart and Circulatory Physiology mentioned that by testing one element of the body (toes), a person can know his heart is healthy or not, even in the midst of holiday though.

It is easy, simply by sitting on the floor with your legs straightened out to the front and the toes pointing up. After that try to reach out and touch your toes with your hands. If you are flexible enough to touch your toes still means your heart healthy and flexible as well.

In their study, researchers from the University of North Texas and several Japanese researchers recruited 526 participants between ages 20 to 83 years. Participants then take 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 bodies that are not flexible with arteries that are not flexible, particularly in participants over age 40.

Those who failed the test the flexibility of the body and failed to reach the tip of your toes turned out to have stiff blood vessels, and it means the ability of the heart becomes less good, efficient and the risk of heart disease increases.

Dr. Yamamoto said the Japanese researchers, although the theory of the relationship between back and leg muscle with a muscle near the heart is still vague, but with this study is quite helpful.

Stiffness of the back muscles, legs and heart vessels that are interconnected are the same because the composition of collagen. 

You can use this tips to check your own heart health. "If you can touch your toes while sitting straight, your heart is still pretty good. However, if not, maybe you need to go to a cardiologist," said Dr Yamamoto, a Japanese researcher, as quoted from the New York Times.

However, Yamamoto is not always mentioned the muscle stiffness is a sign of heart disease, only the heart may be less fit and healthier than they should. 

So this is tips that you can use to check your own heart health. Do it within a period at regular time intervals to determine the condition of your heart, so it can be anticipated from the outset if a problem occurs.