Sunday, June 8, 2014

Are your Heavy Tired Legs a sign of heart disease?


There are many people who ignore heavy tired legs and this can be a huge mistake, the constant feeling of very weighted down lower limbs is often a sign of coming or current cardiovascular troubles. Ignoring the feeling of consistent fatigue in the leg can cost you your health. The number one sign of a coming heart attack are heavy and tired legs, over 80% of people could have avoided a heart attack had they listened to the lesson in their lower limbs.


The American Heart Association (AHA) has identified “heaviness in legs or” Peripheral arteries disease as a major cause of mortality; the arteries are essentially partially blocked by nasty and sticky plaques.  Ignoring leg heaviness can be extremely dangerous and costly, according to the AHA, Heavy Legs can result in the same cost and mortality as stroke and heart attack, this is serious.

AHA: Lower extremity PAD is now known to be associated with equal morbidity (physical) and mortality (loss of life) and comparable (or higher) health economic costs as coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke


Why your legs are experiencing heaviness

The lower limbs play an extremely important role in the health of your heart, the oxygen rich blood must have plaque free arteries to effectively get the necessary blood to circulate to the heart. When heaviness is being experienced in the lower limbs it is a sign of narrowed arteries.

What to do about the condition and the race against time

It is important to know that as the legs go so does the heart, if you have any difficulty walking long distances and experience any heaviness, tiredness or tightness in the lower limbs it is often a sign of plaque narrowed blocked arteries in the legs.  Time is not on your side, each day the heart as to work doubly hard because of the lack of support from the legs in regard to circulating the blood. The most common way of treating this disease is with surgery or diet, the surgery is a leg bypass surgery which depends on where the leg is experiencing the narrowing arteries (blockage).

Option 1:    Bypass surgery redirects blood through a grafted blood vessel to bypass the blood vessel that is damaged. The grafted blood vessel may be a healthy natural vein or it may be man-made. The typical surgery for tired heavy legs is between $5000 to $7000 dollars.   Amazingly over 80% of heart attacks could have been avoided had people not ignored heavy tired legs.
 


Option 2 Diet:  There is a diet that has been reversing tired heavy legs without surgery; the diet which was created in Europe is now used in over 10 countries for those who are trying to reverse leg heaviness without surgery


See here Heavy Legs Diet









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