Today, the medical community agrees that what causes heart disease is not cholesterol, but the way that the cholesterol is processed through the body.

What Is A Heart Attack?

A heart attack is caused when one or more of the coronary arteries that lead to the heart are blocked. This condition, known in layman’s terms as hardening of the arteries, was always blamed on cholesterol. It is really caused by a buildup of plaque in the arteries.

Some of this comes from fat, but it is the way the fat is processed in the body that causes it to stick to the sides of the arteries. A heart attack is an injury to the heart muscle that is caused by one or more blocked arteries.

What Happens During A Heart Attack?

In order for your heart muscle to work properly, it depends on a steady flow of blood going in and out of the body. When this is interrupted because of a blocked artery, it causes pain. The pain in the chest is referred to as angina and effects 9.8 million people in the United States alone.

Symptoms of a heart attack include pain in the chest, pain in the arm, nausea, dizziness or generally just not feeling well. Shortness of breath may or may not be present. Everyone experiences different symptoms when it comes to heart attacks.

Around 500,000 people a year die from heart attacks, making it the leading cause of death in the United States. According to recent heart attack statistics, 37 percent of people who experience a heart attack will die from it.

Heart Attack Treatment

Early heart attack treatment is crucial for a full recovery. This is why it is so important for anyone who is suffering from symptoms to seek medical care immediately.

The recovery time for the heart muscle for those who survive a heart attack is usually 8 weeks. In the case of a massive heart attack, in which case all of the arteries are blocked, there is only a 10 percent chance of survival.

How Can I Avoid A Heart Attack?

When it comes to heart attacks, an ounce of prevention is definitely worth a pound of cure. While reducing cholesterol using drugs is not considered to be safe, it was the gold standard of care for years, despite the negative side effects.

Today there are better ways to avoid a heart attack, although the pharmaceutical companies are not willing to easily give up the throne when it comes to heart attack prevention.

Most cholesterol medication has serious and life threatening side effects and you need to exercise caution when taking them. However, Cardio-Klenz is a medication that I would not hesitate to recommend for prevention of heart attacks. Cardio-Klenz is an all natural product that will keep your arteries clear and your heart healthy. What’s more, it will help offset any negative side effects of statin drugs.

Heart Attack Information

As is the case with all diseases, it helps to educate oneself with the leading causes of these diseases to better understand why the recommended treatment options will work.

In terms of heart attacks, we find that Coronary Artery Disease, also known as CAD, is one of the leading causes. More often than not this is due to atherosclerosis where plaque forms on the inside-lining of the artery wall. This causes an obstruction and ultimately blocks the entire artery. This results in no blood reaching the heart which then causes a heart attack.

How To Prevent Heart Disease

As you may have guessed, there exist two different types of treatment for heart disease. Allopathic treatment refers to conventional medicines and methods such as surgery and drugs to solve the problem. Natural treatment on the other hand not only looks at the problem, but at the whole body and how to assist it in healing itself.

In this article, we will be looking at two natural medicines, nattokinase and vitamin K2, and see how they form part of the "how to prevent a heart attack" strategy.

Nattokinase

Nattokinase is the name of an enzyme that is extracted from Natto which is a Japanese food made from fermented soybeans. The fermentation takes place when the Bacillus Natto is added to boiled soybeans.

It is often called "The Enzyme of Enzymes" and has no negative side effects when consumed. In fact this miracle enzyme has a list of benefits which include increased oxygen absorption, increased mental functioning, increased bone health, betterment of vision and a variety of others.

Do take note that Nattokinase has to be taken in an enteric coated form for the simple reason that it would otherwise be destroyed by the stomach acid. Enteric coating is made up of a pH-sensitive polymers that are resistant to the effects of stomach acid and only dissolves once it reaches the small intestine.

Vitamin K2

Next in the battle against cardiac heart disease we have Vitamin K2 which essentially removes calcium deposits from your arteries, thereby reducing the narrowing of the arteries and adding to the ways to prevent heart disease. In addition, it is also a powerful antioxidant which could indirectly help reduce "bad cholesterol".

As vitamin K2 is extremely expensive, it is rarely added to supplements. However the good news is that it is present in Natto.

It is important to realize that taking supplements containing nattokinase and vitamin K2 form only a part of that which is required to prevent heart disease. Following a balanced diet of all the right foods, minimizing consumption of the wrong foods and getting enough cardio vascular exercise should be taken into account as well.

And finally we would highly recommend Cardio-Klenz, which contains both of the nutrients that we discussed, to ensure that your risk of suffering a heart attack will decrease even further. Cardio-Klenz improves the blood flow by smoothening out the interiors of the arteries and by breaking down the plaque that otherwise constricts the flow of blood.