The Secret to a Healthy Brain Is Taking Care of Your Heart, Experts Say
will be in the future, according to another study. “What you do when you’re young is extremely important,” says Dr. Gottesman, perhaps even more so than taking charge of risk factors later in life. Read on to see what we’re learning about the ways your heart helps your head and how you can use this new knowledge to stay healthy.A scary stat: About half of us have one or more of the big three
—high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and a smoking habit—according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here’s how that could impact your brain.Healthy arteries normally are elastic and let blood flow freely. If they stiffen, the heart pushes harder to get blood through, adding pressure—that’s high blood pressure, a.k.a. hypertension. If a vessel supplying the brain gets completely clogged and blood can’t pass through, acan follow, and brain cells may starve.
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