What are some at home tests one can do to ensure heart health? Blood pressure monitor is probably one way. What about some kind of stress test? If you can run a decent distance without feeling any chest pain is that a good indication your heart and arteries are fine? What about at home ECG? Maybe even blood sugar level tests? I think that plays a big role too. I was curious and checked and these are all machines you can just buy on Amazon. I don't know how good they are though.
Heart issues do run in the family, my dad started at 39, with 4 blockages at 95% which he eventually got fixed via angiplasti. He's been through like 10+ of those including a bypass since then. Recently we had a huge scare and almost lost him. It definitely was an eye opener and made me realize, being 33, I'm really not that far from the age he was when it all started. I eat better than he did and I also don't smoke, but some way of being reassured I'm ok would be nice. I heard of a CAC test but doctors don't tend to want to send you for stuff like that unless you are already sick. I don't want to wait until I'm sick. Just wondering what my options are for DIY tests? I'm fairly confident I'm doing fine, but it's always nice to have reassurance.
Either way I really do need to change my diet, I don't eat SUPER bad, but I could definitely make some improvements. It would be nice to get to a point where I pretty much eliminate carbs but I find it's so hard as it greatly reduces the amount of meal ideas as there's carbs in almost everything. Ex: rice, pasta, and bread products alone can make a lot of different meals. I need to make these changes but it's just hard figuring out new meal ideas that don't have carbs without them being boring and repetitious.
Then there's also the fact that there's so much conflicting information when it comes to nutrition so it's really hard to even know what's good and what's bad. One paper says carbs are bad and fats are good, while another says carbs arn't a big deal as long as there's fibre with it, and that fat is bad etc. So much contradiction everywhere.
Heart issues do run in the family, my dad started at 39, with 4 blockages at 95% which he eventually got fixed via angiplasti. He's been through like 10+ of those including a bypass since then. Recently we had a huge scare and almost lost him. It definitely was an eye opener and made me realize, being 33, I'm really not that far from the age he was when it all started. I eat better than he did and I also don't smoke, but some way of being reassured I'm ok would be nice. I heard of a CAC test but doctors don't tend to want to send you for stuff like that unless you are already sick. I don't want to wait until I'm sick. Just wondering what my options are for DIY tests? I'm fairly confident I'm doing fine, but it's always nice to have reassurance.
Either way I really do need to change my diet, I don't eat SUPER bad, but I could definitely make some improvements. It would be nice to get to a point where I pretty much eliminate carbs but I find it's so hard as it greatly reduces the amount of meal ideas as there's carbs in almost everything. Ex: rice, pasta, and bread products alone can make a lot of different meals. I need to make these changes but it's just hard figuring out new meal ideas that don't have carbs without them being boring and repetitious.
Then there's also the fact that there's so much conflicting information when it comes to nutrition so it's really hard to even know what's good and what's bad. One paper says carbs are bad and fats are good, while another says carbs arn't a big deal as long as there's fibre with it, and that fat is bad etc. So much contradiction everywhere.