I know everyone is saying ‘how?’. How can I achieve this at a time when we all have troubles both in our daily lives and socially? Yes, there are always troubles, but the heart is your heart. Let's see what stress does to your heart and what you can do to remove the effect of stress from your heart.

Stress hormones increase blood pressure, cause spasms in the heart vessels and cause you to have a heart attack.

Our body keeps the relevant units ready by using hormones like a postman to keep itself ready with all its organs for all kinds of conditions. However, the perception and reaction system in the brain cannot distinguish what is more vital and what is more manageable. Your hormonal reaction to a wild animal attack is exactly the same as your reaction to a driver who cuts in front of you in a traffic jam. With this reaction, more blood goes to your muscles, your heart speeds up, your blood pressure rises, your mouth dries up, your pupils shrink. Whatever happens to you, both cause the same damage to your heart. Sudden rises in blood pressure are your heart's worst enemy. It increases the risk of heart attack. It causes aortic vessel enlargement (aneurysm) or rupture (dissection). It leads to brain haemorrhage.

Therefore, controlling your stress protects you from many sudden health disasters.

Stress is not a momentary thing, but if it becomes a lifestyle, it invites many chronic diseases.

I agree that it is meaningless to say ‘don't bother about anything, be relaxed’. Of course, in our home life, at work, in our daily routine, we experience events that momentarily anger and upset us, and this creates fluctuations in our mood. However, if you turn this anxiety into a mood state, you are eating your heart health. These people we call Type A personality; people with high blood pressure, constantly high or irregular heart rhythm, experiencing sudden rhythm and blood pressure ups and downs during the day. Moreover, because of these personalities, they smoke, eat unhealthy and excessive food, and consume more alcohol, thinking that it reduces their stress. Therefore, they are serious candidates for cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, since these people are young people at the beginning of their working life, a sudden cardiovascular occlusion that develops in them is more fatal than a stenosis that develops over a long period of time in the elderly.

''Positive thinking'' is good for your heart.

Are you one of those who feel helpless in the face of events and experience every situation as a disaster? Don't do it, it harms your heart! Try to look at the positive side, try to experience positivity. Believe me, the contraction you experience in your mood is also experienced in your veins. Don't say ‘What can I do, my temperament is like this!’; you are not making this change in your way of thinking for anyone else, but for yourself, for your own heart. You cannot leave your heart, but unfortunately it can leave you.

What can I do to raise my ‘mood’?

Play sports! Regular exercise increases the hormone ‘endorphins’ in the body. Endorphins make you feel fitter and happier. It is also an addictive hormone. If you exercise regularly at the same level for about a month, your body will ask you to do so. 

A regular sexual life is also worth gold both in protecting your heart values and in blood pressure control. The only thing your heart really wants is ‘love’.

Your body is a team playing together, if one player is bad, you lose the match.

You cannot say, ''My mood is bad, but let me take care of my heart''. They all communicate with each other through your messenger hormones. If your thyroid gland is underactive, your cholesterol will not decrease; if you are constantly in an anxious mood, blood pressure pills will not lower your blood pressure.

Everyone has the situation of ‘What should I do, I'm stressed?’. Whatever you do, do it for yourself; life is yours, reduce your stress. All bad habits, all the things you know but don't do are due to stress. It is time to think positively ‘for yourself’ and manage stress.