{"id":454,"date":"2013-05-09T01:11:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2013-05-09T01:11:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:11:32","slug":"heart-attack-water-and-aspirin-from-a-mayo-clinic-cardiologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/heart-attack-water-and-aspirin-from-a-mayo-clinic-cardiologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Attack, Water and Aspirin from a Mayo Clinic Cardiologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking \u00a0water at certain time \u00a0maximizes its effectiveness on the \u00a0body:<br \/>\n2 \u00a0glasses of water after waking up &#8211; helps \u00a0activate internal organs<br \/>\n1 \u00a0glass of water 30 minutes before a meal &#8211; helps \u00a0digestion<br \/>\n1 glass of water before taking \u00a0a bath &#8211; helps lower blood pressure<br \/>\n1 \u00a0glass of water ( with one, half strength aspirin) before going to bed helps avoid \u00a0stroke or heart attack.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Heart Attack and Water \u2013 Why do people need to urinate so much at night? Answer from a Cardiac Doctor \u2013 Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down and the lower body (legs and etc) seeks level with the kidneys, it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier.\u00a0 Water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps. Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up with a Charlie Horse.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Heart Attack and Aspirin &#8211; Dr. Virend Somers, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">a Cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic, is lead author of the report in the July 29, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Most heart attacks occur in the day, generally between 6 A.M. and noon. Having one during the night, when the heart should be most at rest, means that something unusual happened.\u00a0<!--more--><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night.<br \/>\nThe reason: Aspirin has a 24-hour \u201chalf-life\u201d; therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the Aspirin would be strongest in your system.<\/p>\n<p>2. FYI, Aspirin lasts a really long time in your medicine chest for years, (when it gets old, it smells like vinegar).<\/p>\n<p>Please read on.<br \/>\nSomething that we can do to help ourselves \u2013 nice to know.<br \/>\nBayer is making crystal aspirin to dissolve instantly on the tongue.<br \/>\nThey work much faster than the tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Why keep Aspirin by your bedside? It\u2019s about Heart Attacks &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>There are other symptoms of a heart attack, besides the pain on the left arm. One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating; however, these symptoms may also occur less frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Note: There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep did not wake up.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep.\u00a0 If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouth and swallow them with a bit of water.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards: \u2013 Call 911. \u2013 Phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by.\u00a0 Say \u201cheart attack!\u201d \u2013 Say that you have taken 2 Aspirins. \u2013 Take a seat on a chair or sofa near the front door, and wait for their arrival and \u2026 DO NOT LIE DOWN!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinking \u00a0water at certain time \u00a0maximizes its effectiveness on the \u00a0body: 2 \u00a0glasses of water after waking up &#8211; helps \u00a0activate internal organs 1 \u00a0glass of water 30 minutes before a meal &#8211; helps \u00a0digestion 1 glass of water before taking \u00a0a bath &#8211; helps lower blood pressure 1 \u00a0glass of water ( with one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5vW9k-7k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}