Did you know if your heart has a problem or not enough to touch your toes?
In one of the journals explained that by testing one element of the body, the toes, can help us detect if we have heart problems or not. Even while you're on vacation, you can check if you have heart problems or not.
How to know the heart problem The step is quite simple. Here as reported by Boldsky.com. Sit on the floor with your feet up and your toes pointing up. Try to reach out and touch your toes with your hands.
If you are flexible enough to touch your toes, it means your heart is healthy and flexible as well. Research conducted on this For this study, about 500 participants plus selected aged 20 to 83 years. The participants followed the body's flexibility test while blood pressure and heart activity were measured.
In participants over the age of 40, the study found that they were not flexible enough to touch the toes. Those who fail to test the flexibility of the body and can not reach the tip of the toe apparently have stiff blood vessels. This means the heart is not working effectively and the risk of heart disease is also high.
If you can touch your toes while sitting up straight, then your heart is still in good condition. But if you can not, then you should consult first with a cardiologist.
Furthermore, this may not always be a sign of heart and heart disease may be less fitting. It is also stated in the study that, the ability to bend in a sitting position and touch your toes may be correlated with the risk of heart attack and stroke.
The inability to perform this simple task means your arteries have lost flexibility and become stiff and rigid. Healthy arteries are flexible and elastic, which keeps blood pressure normal.
Stiffening arteries associated with age lead to loss of arterial integrity, which further leads to high blood pressure.
The question that remains here is why arterial flexibility is related to body flexibility as we get older. The findings suggest that the increased likelihood of increased flexibility induced by stretching exercises may modify the age-related arterial stiffness in older adults and elderly, thus concluded in this study.

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