How can I lower my resting heart rate?
ANSWER
Exercise. Physical activity strengths your heart just like other muscles in your body.
Quit smoking. Smoking causes your arteries and veins to get smaller. This can lead to a higher heart rate.
Relax. Stress can send hormones like adrenaline and cortisol racing through your blood, which can raise your heart rate.
Eat more fish. A healthy diet is the cornerstone of heart health
Reviewed by Jennifer Robinson on February 10, 2020
SOURCES:
American Heart Association: “Know your target heart rates of exercise, losing weight and health,” "Tachycardia: Fast Heart Rate,” "Ablation for Arrhythmias."
CDC: “Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking.”
Circulation: “Fish Consumption is Associated with Lower Heart Rates.”
Harvard Health Publishing: “Your resting heart rate can reflect your current -- and future – health.”
Heart: “Elevated resting heart rate, physical fitness and all-cause mortality: a 16-year follow-up in the Copenhagen Male Study.”
The Heart Foundation: “Your Heart Rate.”
JAMA: “Temporal Changes in Resting Heart Rate and Deaths From Ischemic Heart Disease.”
Mayo Clinic: “Bradycardia,” “Heart-healthy diet: 8 steps to prevent heart disease,” “Tachycardia,”
“What’s a normal resting heart rate?”
Plos ONE: “Web-based Mindfulness Intervention in Heart Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.”
SOURCES:
American Heart Association: “Know your target heart rates of exercise, losing weight and health,” "Tachycardia: Fast Heart Rate,” "Ablation for Arrhythmias."
CDC: “Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking.”
Circulation: “Fish Consumption is Associated with Lower Heart Rates.”
Harvard Health Publishing: “Your resting heart rate can reflect your current -- and future – health.”
Heart: “Elevated resting heart rate, physical fitness and all-cause mortality: a 16-year follow-up in the Copenhagen Male Study.”
The Heart Foundation: “Your Heart Rate.”
JAMA: “Temporal Changes in Resting Heart Rate and Deaths From Ischemic Heart Disease.”
Mayo Clinic: “Bradycardia,” “Heart-healthy diet: 8 steps to prevent heart disease,” “Tachycardia,”
“What’s a normal resting heart rate?”
Plos ONE: “Web-based Mindfulness Intervention in Heart Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.”
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