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The Heart-Brain Connection: How Stress and Emotional Wellbeing May Influence Heart Health
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The Heart-Brain Connection: How Stress and Emotional Wellbeing May Influence Heart Health

Is the Heart More Than Just a Physical Pump? The heart is one of the hardest working organs in the body, roughly the size of our fist and beats around 100,00 times each day. Its main function is to continuously pump around 8 pints of blood around the body via our vast network of blood vessels. It delivers nutrients and vital oxygen to the whole body whilst carrying away carbon dioxide and waste products (www.bhf.org.uk).Ā  Looking after our heart health through a nourishing diet, good hydration...
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Understanding POTS: Symptoms, Causes and Nutritional Support Strategies
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Understanding POTS: Symptoms, Causes and Nutritional Support Strategies

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome or POTS as it is known is a syndrome (not a disease) involving the autonomic nervous system. Most of us stand up without thinking about it, our nervous system quietly adjusts our blood vessels, heart rate and blood pressure to ensure blood reaches the brain. But, for someone with POTS this simple change of posture can trigger a whole cascade of symptoms.Ā  POTS is a form of dysautonomia, meaning there is a dysfunction within the autonomic nervous system...
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