Charles Bird

When Hearts Attack Charles Bird

When Hearts Attack is a book about...surprise...heart attacks. When I had a "widow maker" heart attack, that's the dramatic one as its name suggests, in 2015 I was dazed and confused afterward. My lipid profile "measurables" were all well within "safe" guidelines. I got regular aerobic exercise. I was even losing a little excess weight on a new diet. I couldn't believe I had a heart attack. Neither could my doctor. He asked "how could this happen?". I thought he'd have the answer. Being curious I had to look into the subject of heart attacks. In this book I share what I learned with you. There are medical and non-medical things that you can do to minimize your risk of experiencing a heart attack, improve your chances of surviving one, and helping you recover from one. For medical advice listen to your doctor, there is no medical advice in this book. Information yes, advice no. But this book does have information on non-medical factors that can contribute to your survival too. What you do now, starting today, can protect you from not only heart attack, but strokes and deadly embolisms, too. Heart attack, stroke and embolisms are among the most preventable causes of death in the United States. The beauty of all of this is that the things that can reduce your chance of a heart attack, a stroke or an embolism, are things that can improve the quality of your life, too. Best of all, it's easy, you already do two of the three things everyday ... even if you don't do them to your best advantage. Invest in yourself, read this book and find out what they are.