Good health practices can avoid developing heart problems. We can improve our quality of life by getting enough sleep, keeping active, and eating well. Mark Goddard, Vice President of Clinical Services at InfoBionic.ai, joins Suzanne Newman on the Answers for Elders Radio show to talk about keeping our heart healthy.

Mark says, "It'll make a big difference in the way you feel. And and while we're still here, we always want to feel as good as we possibly can and do as much as we can. So following the traditional suggestions related to diet, don't eat foods with lots of preservatives within them.

"Hydration is critical. It's a whole other subject, because the concentration of what they call electrolytes within your body is critical in maintaining normal heart rhythm. Having electrolytes that are completely out of balance quite often causes arrhythmias that are far more lethal than atrial fibrillation, ones that can create a bad scenario within a few seconds, not a few hours or days.

"Making sure your blood pressure is maintained appropriately, your blood sugar is okay, making sure your lipids are good too. You don't want anything going on that's going to change the structure of your heart. And if it does, then you wind up with [the potential for] arrhythmias..

Learn more about InfoBionic's AI-enabled MoMe ARC remote heart monitoring device which sends data in near real time to the cloud for review.

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