Emotionally stable people enjoy better cardiovascular health.
Studies have shown that having a stable love life and emotional state promotes good mental health, improves immune system and protects the heart.
Valentine’s Day
On 14 February is traditionally the Day Valentine, One tradition Anglo-Saxon countries that has been implemented on the other throughout the twentieth century. This day, which besides being the love is also the day of friendship, couples are often expressed his love and love each other, extending also the custom of exchanging gifts, mainly roses, which has a special affection.
However, Valentine’s Day it may also serve to remind the importance of maintaining good emotional health, as are several studies which have shown that love directly affects our heart health by reducing the risk of disease cardiovascular and helping to lengthen, thus, our life expectancy. Researchers on the subject say that the emotional bonds we have with our partners, friends and family, improve blood pressure, helping to reduce levels of anxiety, stress and depression, these known as “psychological risk factors.”
The heart, if he loves best
Dr. Miguel Angel Garcia Fernandez, deputy secretary of the Spanish Society of Cardiology, notes that there is a clear relationship between our mood and health of our heart. Therefore, to prevent CVD Addition to controlling stress, cholesterol levels, exercising and eating a healthy diet is very important to encourage the presence of positive feelings strengthen our bond with our environment.
In addition, investigations of the World Heart Federation show how people who do some treatment to address cardiovascular disease and have a happy environment with strong emotional ties, improve two to four times its capacity to recover from the disease being treated . According to these studies, the affective bonds improve blood pressure, reducing known “risk psychological factors” such as anxiety, stress and depression.
Also in this work ensures that the emotional environment in a highly positive help to improve the response to treatment of diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Without doubt, therefore, love is good for our health because, as experts say, could be related to the fact that during the phase of falling in love, the brain secretes hormones such as oxytocin, dopamine or adrenalin, Which protect the cardiovascular system.
Disappointments in love
By contrast, suffer in love relationships may increase cardiovascular risk, plasma or so another study, “Marital Stress Worsens Prognosis in Women With Coronary Heart Disease”, conducted by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and studied at 600 women between 30 and 65, which showed that women with stressful marriages are three times more risk of heart attacks than women happily married.
This research says that people with emotional problems have a lower cardiac defense. As it stands Dr. Garcia Fernandez, “the study was enlightening and surprising, since it was shown that women with stressful marriages were three times more likely to suffer some heart attack that women living with a good relationship with their partner. “
That investigation concluded that the stress in marriage leads to progression of coronary atherosclerosis, with increased instability of atherosclerotic plaques that favor the occurrence of cardiac complications. Thus, according to experts, is very important to maintain strong emotional ties to protect our cardiovascular health, whether filial, fraternal or couple. Either one, or all together, are a shield for our heart health.