The mental health crisis increasing heart attack risk

(NaturalHealth365)  New analysis of 22 million people published in JAMA Psychiatry reveals what conventional cardiology refuses to acknowledge: PTSD raises heart attack risk by 173%, anxiety by 63%, and depression by 40%.  Yet cardiologists obsess over cholesterol while ignoring the psychological factors destroying your heart.

They check cholesterol, prescribe a statin, adjust blood pressure meds, and send you on your way.  Not once will they ask about anxiety, trauma, or depression.  This is a sick care system profiting from symptoms.

The review analyzed 25 studies involving 22,048,504 participants, with 317,780 experiencing heart attacks.  Mental health status emerged as a powerful predictor that Western medicine dismisses.

How mental disorders destroy your heart

Chronic anxiety and depression elevate cortisol, the stress hormone that increases blood pressure, promotes arterial inflammation, and accelerates plaque formation.  This is measurable cardiovascular damage, not just psychological distress.

PTSD and anxiety create what researchers call “heightened physiologic responses to acute stressors.”  Every time you encounter stress, your body floods your bloodstream with inflammatory chemicals that directly injure your arterial walls.  Do this repeatedly over months and years, and you’re setting yourself up for a heart attack regardless of your cholesterol levels.

Sleep disorders emerged as particularly dangerous.  Poor sleep leaves you tired and disrupts glycemic control, increasing oxidative stress throughout the cardiovascular system.  When you’re not sleeping properly, your body can’t repair the daily damage to your arteries.

Depression creates insulin resistance and elevated blood sugar through mechanisms that have nothing to do with diet.  Anxiety triggers chronic sympathetic nervous system activation, keeping your heart in constant fight-or-flight mode that exhausts the cardiac muscle and damages blood vessels over time.

Natural solutions that address actual root causes

The conventional approach wants you on antidepressants for mood and statins for your heart, never acknowledging how these conditions interconnect or why both developed in the first place.

Start with magnesium glycinate, 400-600 mg daily.  Magnesium calms your nervous system, regulates stress hormone production, protects against arterial damage, and supports a healthy heart rhythm.  Most Americans are deficient, and that deficiency drives both anxiety and cardiovascular dysfunction simultaneously.

Sleep quality isn’t optional when sleep disorders raise heart attack risk 60%.  Eliminate blue light exposure 2 hours before bed – yes, that means your phone and TV.  Use magnesium threonate (the form that crosses into your brain) combined with L-theanine to promote genuinely restorative sleep without pharmaceutical side effects.

Remove refined carbohydrates and sugar from your diet.  These spike insulin, drive inflammation, destabilize blood sugar, and feed both depression and cardiovascular disease through identical metabolic pathways.  Focus on quality protein, healthy fats from wild-caught fish and olive oil, and non-starchy vegetables.

Omega-3 fatty acids from wild-caught fish – aim for 2,000 mg combined EPA and DHA daily – reduce the inflammatory markers elevated by mental health disorders while directly protecting both brain and heart tissue.

CoQ10 (100-300 mg daily), L-carnitine, B-complex and C vitamins support the mitochondrial energy production that both depression and heart disease impair.  These are essential nutrients for proper cardiovascular function and protection from oxidative stress.

The complete picture conventional cardiology is not addressing

True cardiovascular health demands addressing chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, autonomic nervous system dysfunction, sleep quality, and psychological well-being – the actual drivers of heart disease in most people.

Jonathan Landsman’s Cardiovascular Docu-Class brings together 22 leading researchers and holistic doctors, who understand what conventional cardiology refuses to acknowledge.

You’ll discover how unresolved emotional trauma creates arterial damage years before your first heart attack, the gut-brain-heart axis that connects digestive health to mental health to cardiovascular health, why the blood sugar imbalances creating your anxiety and depression are simultaneously destroying your arteries, natural protocols for reversing autonomic nervous system dysfunction without drugs, and the advanced functional testing that reveals your true cardiovascular risk – testing your conventional cardiologist doesn’t even know exists.

Sources for this article include:

Jamanetwork.com
Medicalxpress.com

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