Heart Health: Is your heart healthy? How can you know about it? If you think that it is cholesterol, or blood pressure, then you are wrong. This video lays focus on an expert who tells about what determines your heart health. He says that it is your resting heart rate.
Expert Giving His Opinions About How To Know Heart Health
Dr. Alok Chopra, MD, MBBS. Co Founder, Aashlok Hospital, explains how to determine how strong your heart is on social media. He says that your resting heart rate confirms how strong your heart is.
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What Roles Does Resting Heart Rate Play?
When you are sitting calmly or lying down, the number of beats your heart takes each minute is called resting heart rate. And it is one of the simplest and most powerful clues about your heart fitness. Healthy adults’ hearts beat 60-80 bp per minute. Athletes or highly fit individuals’ resting heart beat is between 40-50 bp per minute. Each beat runs out more blood. A less trained heart might need 70 beats to move the same blood volume that a fit heart manages in 50 bp per minute. That is the efficiency at its best.
Your heart may be under stress due various reasons, such as poor sleep, dehydration, chronic stress, excess caffeine or underlying medical conditions. But you can train your heart by doing various things, such as daily exercise, mindful meditation, adequate hydration, healthy nutrition, and quality sleep. All these lower and stabilize your resting heart rate.
Track your resting heart rate over time. A sudden jump upwards may be your body’s early warning system, telling you something is off before the bigger problems show up.
So, what is your resting heart rate telling you today?
This video has been taken from the dralokchopra Instagram account. It has received 967 likes and many comments from viewers.
What Comments Has This Video Received From Viewers?
One of them has to say, “Apple Watch RHR trends, ideally 50s guys”; second viewer says, “What time one should check the resting heart rate?”; third viewer comments, “What is the best time to measure our heartbeat..?..thanks Doctor”; and fourth viewer says, “I have resting heart rate between 53-60 but I am taking BP medicine- Metpure XL 25 twice a day.. Is it because of this tablet that my resting heart rate is low?”
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