Heart Health: Our emotional heart is determined by a healthy emotional brain
"Love does not make the world go 'round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." Franklin Jones
San Diego mortality rate is still 100% with cardiovascular heart disease still leads the way for our untimely demise. With February being the Awareness Month National cardiovascular health, much is written on diet and exercise for heart health, but little is written about how our heart to love our emotional heart, is controlled by our emotional brain for healthy relationships.
With Valentine's Day around the corner, emotional health begins in the brain, in an area called the limbic system, also known as the seat of emotion. This brain region is where all the Feel Good chemicals called neurotransmitters are made, such as serotonin and dopamine. A reward brain Cascade with the release chemical dopamine reward being. Dopamine is the feel good chemical that gives us a sense of well -being, is anti-anxiety and anti-depressive. If dopamine is in short supply, it often feels anxious, more depressed, difficulty concentrating, and easily distracted. Those deficient dopamine often looking for ways to stimulate or self-medicate with sugar, caffeine, alcohol or drugs while stimulating dopamine artificially. This unhealthy approach often leads to abuse, addiction and emotional instability.
Prepare your heart and mind to be the best valentine you may be developing habits that heal and promote health of your emotional heart.
Regular exercise, especially high intensity interval training promotes the health of your heart and emotional. Adding intensity to your regular cardio workout (training burst treadmill, elliptical, bike, run, swim, etc.) stimulates a healthy flow of feel good neurotransmitters (dopamine) and relieve pain endorphins (morphine endogenous). In addition, adding weight training to your aerobic exercise even more stimulating feel good neurotransmitters that reduce chronic anxiety, stress and depression. In fact, research shows that exercise can often match or exceed the results of psychotherapy.
To ensure that your body has all the ingredients for an abundant supply of feel good neurotransmitters and endorphins relieve pain you are feeding your brain. The ingredients your body needs to do a lot of neurotransmitters are well-amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Make sure you're eating a diet rich in high quality protein such as organic grass fed beef, antibiotic and hormone free turkey, chicken and eggs, wild cold water fish such as salmon and cod, rich Omega 3 fatty acids, all provide your brain and body with the necessary ingredients to feel good, to heal well and you like good.
Bad habits that affect our common emotional health and sense of well-being are faulty postures as "tech-neck". Our constantly flexed cervical spine, looking down all day at our smart phones and tablets as well as the long hours sitting in front of our computers and dropped seats driver set the stage for chronic pain. This continuous rounded our shoulders and reverse the curve of our neck interfere with your spinal cord, creating an abnormal voltage, a short-circuit and innervation of the production of endorphins, limiting the flow of cerebral spinal fluid and the reduction vital neurotransmitter welfare dopamine reward. The first four vertebrae in your neck must move properly for your body to produce enough endorphins wellness. Poor posture and repetitive bending the neck stops relieve these pains vital endorphins resulting in increased pain, irritation and injury, very common among people with fibromyalgia and patients with injuries last shot rabbit. Specific chiropractic training that incorporates posture and marrow molding can do wonders to relieve chronic pain in the head and neck by taking the tension out of the spinal cord, which increases dopamine and endorphin release, restore a sense of well-being and emotional health of the brain once again. Drive around the life, chose to love and live your ideal 100 year life today.
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