How Overcoming Addiction Can Boost Your Heart Health
/If you want to keep your heart as healthy as possible, there are so many things that you can do to aid that. One of the most fundamental is to try and avoid any addictions to harmful substances. Of course, that can be much easier said than done, and it’s certainly true that many people have addictions which can take a long time to overcome.
But if you have an addiction, the fact is that removing it from your life could massively boost your heart health in no time. Let’s take for example something like heroin, a particularly powerful and damaging drug, and one of the most addictive. Heroin places tremendous pressure on your heart, especially if taken on a regular basis, so it would certainly be best to try and overcome this addiction.
Likewise for alcohol addiction. Alcoholics are known to have much poorer heart health than a non-drinker of the same age. If you know you're drinking too much, trying to curtail that could definitely help your heart to recover faster, and to have a lot more life in it.
If you are unsure about the addictive nature of a particular substance, you may wish to take a look at the infographic below. It lists some of the most addictive drugs in the world, with an emphasis on the experienced pleasure and psychological and physical dependence of each. Any of these are going to affect your heart health, and will therefore be worth cutting out of your life entirely.
