Most often when we talk about avoiding a heart attack, we focus on things that we should be doing differently.

But there is one thing you should keep doing and not change to be healthy and prevent heart attack.

This should not be taken lightly as almost 50% of people change this. And it increases the risk of heart attack up to 77% – equal to having high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.

According to a study from Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Caroline, getting divorced drastically increases risk of heart attack. Especially for women.

Analyzing data from 15,000 people aged 40 to 80, researchers found that divorced women were 24% more likely to suffer a heart attack than women who stayed married. Getting divorced twice caused a 77% increase in heart attack risk. And remarrying didn’t seem to help.

Strangely, divorce didn’t hit men’s hearts as hard. Only after divorcing twice did their heart attack risk go up and then only by 30%. Getting married again also lowered their risk of heart attack.

Divorce is considered one of the most stressful life experiences possible. Only the death of a loved one tops the stress level of divorce.

A heart attack is, of course, closely connected to stress. High blood pressure, for example, is the number one cause of heart attack. And high blood pressure is always caused by some type of stress.

Stress can be emotional (divorce in this case), mental (figuring out what to do after divorce), physical (diseases, too much workout), or sensory (traffic noise, TV). And it culminates in the form of the stress hormone cortisol.

The way to lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attack, no matter what is going on in your life, is to trigger your body into lowering its overall stress hormone level.

We do this using specific mind/body exercises that give your body a “focused break.” These exercises are very simple and take no physical effort. Anyone can do them despite age or physical shape.

Learn more about the simple blood pressure exercises and try them out for yourself here…