Smoking is bad for you. Quitting is good for you. However, did you know how good? According to an article in the latest Heart Insight Magazine the benefits from quitting start the day you stop! The day you quit your circulation improves and your blood pressure and heart rate begins to drop — Results right…
Visit The Patient’s Perspective page on the Embrace Your Heart Website to download the latest Patient’s Perspective Magazine edition: Women Living With Atrial Fibrillation or listen to the recorded teleconference. The Atrial Fibrillation edition was produce in collaboration with the patient resource StopAfib.org and its founder Mellanie True Hills. Visit the Patient’s Perspective Archive to…
Mellanie True Hills felt as if her heart was jumping out of her chest. Patty Borkowski didn’t have any symptoms at all. How would you know if you have the most common irregular heartbeat, atrial fibrillation? Atrial Fibrillation causes the upper chambers of the heart to quiver, which can cause the heart to overwork itself…
A medical intern changed the course of Patty Borkowski’s life. During a routine check up she was examined by “an intern who was raring to go and practice being a doctor. He kept listening to my heart beat and didn’t look happy. I thought it was just the over-active intern trying to find something wrong…
Fear is common for heart disease survivors, but for women diagnosed with atrial fibrillation the fear can be overwhelming. “You are scared, your family is scared, and you just don’t know if something else is going to happen,” explains Mellanie True Hills, founder of the American Foundation for Women’s Health and the atrial fibrillation patient…
Do you know how to keep yourself healthy? It can be confusing with headlines coming at you. They said Hormone Replacement Therapy is bad for your heart, now maybe it isn’t. They say eat soy, but now they say not too much. Should you take an aspirin everyday? What new test is right for you? …
Your personal story combined with recommendations for realistic lifestyle changes was very powerful.
Eye-opening and Inspirational.
Enlightening information attendees will share with colleagues
I thought, If Eliz can do it, so can I.
Stunning insights into why work-life balance isn’t working.
My favorite part was all of the stats you had to show what increased your odd of heart disease and how you could decrease your odds. It worked out I was actually going grocery shopping yesterday so it helped to have that in the front of my mind to make sure to get some “grow foods” when I was there too.
Really practical, easy to apply tips. And they almost always fit into my busy life.