Heart Attack Risk: Activity vs Inactivity
It's a catch 22 isn't it? Inactivity is a high risk factor for heart attack and heart disease, but activity is too. That's the rub. There are many unfortunate examples of people of all ages and fitness levels actually dying of a heart attack due to the exertion of running. This is not news, despite the furvur over recent studies.

In his book, "The Exercise Myth", Dr. Henry Solomon's cardiology research shows how many of those who die of a heart attack as a result of exercise are well accustomed to the specific physical activity involved, and even the young may die during exercise, even during something as simple as a stress test.

Doctor Paul D. Thompson at Stanford University who did a study on runner's mortality investigated 18 people who had died during or immediately after jogging despite seeing a doctor regularly, 13 were due to coronary heart disease. In fact the vast majority of exercise deaths are due to heart attack. Doctor Renue Virmani of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington DC, upon comparing all causes of death among marathoner autopsies found that severe coronary atherosclerosis is the most common cause of death in both marathon running and less demanding forms.

Other forms of exercise are not much better at protecting against heart disease. In a report on 21 athletes, only one of whom was a runner, Doctor Lionel Opie found a heart attack as the cause of death in 18. A disproportionate number of sudden heart attack deaths occur during or immediately after moderate and strenuous activity as opposed to at other times like rest or sleep.

Cardio Fitness
One of the most important precautions to take in order to minimize risk of fibrilllation is balancing body chemistry by building oxygen reserves in deep organs with pH fitness. Don't even think about getting on the treadmill until you've oxygenated the heart and deep organs to Peak Metabolic Potential™ (PMP™) with a warm-up cool down capable of alkalizing body pH acidity immediately prior to and following physical exertion.

Just because the heart is pumping all the blood, doesn't mean it's getting much more circulation itself (only a .125 percent increase compared to what the up to 90% increase the big long muscles get). Even though you may think the heart is warming up because core temperature is rising, most of the deep vessels are constricting as circulation speeds up, increasing the potential of adrenaline damaging blood vessels. At a certain intensity, exercise constrict the coronary arteries. Even with more moderate exercise vessels in the heart can become injured and narrow over time, and the electrical activity of the heart can be adversely affected due to acidification of metabolic pH which starts as soon as breathing gets heavier during exercise.

People with narrowed arteries in the heart can often perform vigorous exercise without being aware of any problem. Or their condition is misdiagnosed as part of the 'no pain, no gain' experience. Evidence suggests that many people with vascular disease have an exaggerated tendency to form blood clots. Tiny blood clots are part of a response to injury in arteries. Most exercise if adequate enough to improve strength, flexibility, and endurance, will imbalance body pH (of tissues, not digestive fluid). Even standing on a vibrating exercise machine the reflex contraction of muscle will produce lactic acid. The chemical changes of adrenaline combined with an acidic pH can damage arteries very much like nicotine. Lactic acid build up eventually leads to acidosis affecting electrical activity, and the shape and function of protein cells, which is particularly damaging to the myocardium. Many forms of cardiomyopathy can occur where the electrical rhythm of the heart is disrupted, including ventricular fibrillation.

pH Exercise
The secret to heart attack prevention is exercise preparation... which saturates the entire body with oxygen and electrolytes so efficiently the shift to anaerobic metabolism that causes acid pH imbalance never occurs. It only takes a few minutes to do this with Body'Fit™ pH balanced aerobic cardio, whereas it usually takes the kidneys hours or even days. Body'Fit pH Fitness™ exercise (short form... pHx™) is the first total body warm-up cool down routine to restore healthy alkaline body balance in as little as 5 minutes before and after a workout. 100% aerobic cardio relieves stress, builds oxygen reserves to protect the heart muscle during your workout, and lowers the risk of heart damage. A specially designed movement-breathing pattern that can meet the physiological needs of the body as metabolic rate peaks is required if we are to saturate heart tissue with more oxygen.

To avoid stressing the heart, the 24-exercise Body'Fit pHx routine balances muscle V02max in a specific order, oxygenates the anatomical cavities so they don't compete for oxygen, initiates cardiac output with venous return not adrenaline from the outset, and sustains training heart rate by controlling the release of hormones that open up blood vessels in the myocardium. Instead of letting the fight/flight hormone out the gate by itself from the get-go, the first major hormone released is adenosine, simultaneously with adrenaline. For example, sufficient quantities of adenosine throughout the systemic circulation converts the action of adrenaline to dilation. When blood vessels including the coronary arteries dilate instead of constrict like they usually do during exercise, it takes the stress off the heart making it easier to pump blood. Participant's notice that heart rate recovery after an exercise workout is very fast. Not to mention the health benefits of fast pH balance on the smooth muscle of artery walls.

Participants particularly notice how fast heart rate recovery is after sports or a workout with Body'Fit pH Fitness exercise... and the time it takes to get into top shape is reduced radically. The heart is quite happy to work hard as long as it achieves a new homeostatic Peak Metabolic Potentiall without stressing the heart, first. To get More Out of Exercise™ incorporate Body'Fit pHx as a warm-up and cool down to improve exercise health benefits of walking, running, or participating in any sport or physical activity. pHx also useful as complete stand alone workout, enabling good heart health practices for heart disease prevention, in itself.