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How to Save Your Own Life

http://blog.drdavidwilliams.com/blog/digestive-health-guidance/how-to-save-your-own-life

A while back, I got a call from a friend who informed me that his father had suffered a fatal heart attack.

Apparently, the father was alone at the time, so there was no one to administer CPR or any other potentially life-saving maneuvers. CPR can be a lifesaver, but it won’t be much help if you’re the one who suffers the attack and there’s no one around to perform it on you.

If you begin to feel the hard pain in your chest, left arm, and shoulder that signals the beginning of a heart attack, there are several things you can do:

1. Immediately take a deep breath and then cough twice, as hard as you can. Wait a couple of seconds, take another deep breath, and again cough hard twice. Keep repeating the process until either your heart begins to beat normally or help arrives. Taking a big breath fills your lungs with oxygen. Coughing contracts the diaphragm, compressing the heart and helping to keep it pumping the oxygenated blood to the tissues. It’s a simple form of self-CPR.

2. As soon as your heart has stabilized, chew and swallow one aspirin. I’m not normally a fan of aspirin, but in this case it gets into the system quite rapidly and can begin to reduce platelet adhesiveness within five minutes. This will help open up any blocked blood vessels that may have triggered the attack. 

3. Then take either a tablespoon of Tabasco or two cayenne pepper capsules. The Tabasco or cayenne pepper acts as an immediate stimulant to both the nervous and vascular systems. It helps dilate, or enlarge, the blood vessels that supply the heart muscle and other vital organs. If you have a history of heart problems, you should definitely make sure that you have a supply of cayenne pepper capsules on hand. They are readily available at most health food stores.

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