Welcome to Fit to Be Real and a little extra.
We wanted to take a moment and talk about heart health
because February is American Heart Month.
I, in my research, because Victoria makes me do research now,
read that they don't actually know why the heart is in the shape of a heart.
I do. You do? Sure do. Looked it up.
Guess I didn't do enough research.
So it goes back to ancient Greece. Okay.
Where there was a plant, which I hope I say correctly.
Oh, but I did read this. The Silphium. Yeah. Silphium. Yeah.
And it's grown in North African coastline near the Greek city of C-Y-R-E-N-E.
We clearly will never be allowed in Greece.
I don't know. It's in Greece. So it, the seeds of it, and you know the flower.
It's the shape of a pink heart. Heart. Okay.
And that's before it blooms. But it's not just the shape of the heart
because that doesn't really explain like why you connected to the heart.
It was used as medicine, as a flavoring spice, but more importantly as birth control.
Because it, because of this, it was linked with sex and then of course love.
So like it has this little kind of lineage.
So did you do a lot of research to find that out? Was it pretty easy to find?
It was pretty easy to find. I said, why is the heart shaped like a heart?
She's showing me a picture of it. Look up a Silphium plant. You know them.
They're at Home Depot. It's not like an ancient thing.
It's just that's when it kind of came to be.
So the little pink heart shape is the seed.
And then they bloom and they blossom and you know, you don't want babies, you should eat them.
Don't do that. I have no idea. I was going to say, is that easy?
I don't know. I don't know. And free?
I thought of that too in thinking about the heart because they absolutely don't look.
The same. I know. It's like a heart is like a blob. But is it?
Well, that's what I read. Okay.
Music playing
I'm Victoria. Hey guys, I'm Carly.
When will it stop being funny?
I don't know when you change your name.
I guess. Wait, let me try this. Hey guys, it's Carmella.
No. That's my, that's my real name.
Carmella can't have that pitch. It has to be like, hey guys, it's Carmella.
You know, like Carly makes more sense. Hey guys, it's Carmella.
You imagine if mom actually called me Carmella. If you had to call me Carmella.
I don't even think she called you that when you were in trouble.
Not once. Did she do your whole name?
Never. No one's ever, ever called me Carmella.
I would get Victoria Jean Guitare's Mayo get downstairs.
I can actually hear mom saying that because you got in trouble a lot more than I did.
But I, nobody ever once called me Carmella.
I didn't lie and hide it. Carly would just hide it and then eventually get in trouble.
You got to learn somehow.
In any case, let's talk about the heart.
I, so this is something that, um, hey, less less Preston was out girl.
She was like, you know, it's February. It's heart month.
You should do an episode. And I was, you know, we had a lot of other things scheduled and planned,
but then when we got into this decision for, you know, today's chat, I was like, my God,
I really, I don't, I really don't know much about the heart.
I surprisingly did a couple tests and I gave myself the limit of third grade because that's like,
you can test yourself on what grade level of the heart.
And I have about a third grade knowledge of the heart.
Amazing.
But I knew more than I thought about the arteries and,
but what was interesting that I was really excited about,
I don't know a lot about cholesterol and blood pressure.
And now I know a little more, but you know, when you go to the doctor and they're like,
Oh, it's number over number.
Okay. Is that good?
And now I know why. Yeah.
Now I know why nurses, obviously.
So thanks, Liz.
No, they're staff.
Yeah. It just, you know, it is something that number one, everybody has.
Everybody has a heart and you have to prioritize keeping it healthy.
Everybody has a heart.
I mean, you, you have to and they're, they're all made the same way.
There is no change unless you have part of heart disease or any of the issues that could come with it.
But the whole goal is to keep it healthy.
So you stay alive.
And if your heart is not healthy, the rest of your body is not healthy.
Same token.
If your mind is not healthy, your heart is not healthy.
There is such a connection from what I was reading to mind health and heart health.
So yeah, let's talk about that.
There's a lot of reasons for risk and one of them is just age, gender and family history.
And like you can't, what do you, family history was a big one that you were reading.
So women over 55 is when the risk starts to really become a little bit more prevalent and then men over 45.
So they, yeah, yeah.
To prevent heart disease or things that you should be taking care of a little bit more is eat healthy,
which just means, well, besides eat healthy, but low salt, low saturated fat, low saturated fat.
If you look at nutritional label, nutritional label.
I know I stumbled over that.
Thank you.
I was going to try.
I was going to try nutritional label.
That's like you saying commercial last week.
But if you look at that nutritional label, the trans fat and the saturated fat are underneath the word fat when it gives you that gram on the right side of it.
How many grams of fat?
It's just as important to look at trans and saturated and those numbers need to be zero, if not minimal, hopefully zero.
Can I tell you what are some good fats?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
Some good fats.
Yes, you may.
Am I allowed to mother may you?
Yes.
Okay.
Bats to choose.
Olive oil, canola oil, nuts, seeds, avocado, vegetable oil, margarine that are trans fat free.
So not just, you know, Betty cracker margarine.
It's got to say trans fat free.
I thought we were staying away from margarine.
I can't say that word.
Yes.
Say margarine.
Margarine.
It sounds wrong.
Say nutritional margarine.
No, say it.
Say it.
Nutritional margarine.
Guys, she doesn't drink, but she drunk.
My mouth is moving on fats to limit fats to have but limit.
Okay.
You can't just have them all you want.
Butter, regular butter.
That's what I thought was better than margarine bacon fat, cream sauce, non dairy creamers,
cocoa butter, coconut palm, kernel oils, shortening.
I wouldn't buy any of those at the store.
Right.
They're saying you can have them, but in very, very small portions.
Yes.
Moderation, but like the extreme of moderation.
So that is eating healthy, active about 30 minutes a day, seven days a week is semi active
lifestyle.
Okay.
That's the minimum.
Right.
That's the minimum you should do.
Keeping a healthy weight, which if you're eating healthy and keeping active, or means,
you know, that kind of goes hand in hand.
I did a test via Jefferson of my like heart health and I am unhealthy.
No way.
I'm healthy.
I'm healthy in, I don't smoke.
I'm active.
Like all those answers of like, no, I don't do that.
Nope.
I'm healthy.
My height and my weight put me at a high risk.
A high risk.
So I'm, my age is 35.
My heart is 38.
Really?
So I gained three years because I have gained weight according to my BMI and my height and
I, that's probably 100% accurate.
38 years old is like ancient.
I know.
You're almost dead.
Quit smoking if you're a smoker now and or don't smoke at all, but also avoid second
hand smoke.
I know.
It's the same, it's the same level of risk.
I know.
That's what it says.
Why are you sad by that?
I'm because, are you around a lot of second hand smoke?
I'm not, but I feel like as kids, when it was all the time you could smoke anywhere and
not, you know, we were in theater.
We were around people that smoked all the time bars.
Yeah.
When we were kids, we were in bars all the time and that's a fact.
And we were around smoke all the time and I just go back to thinking like, my kids don't
really know what cigarette smoke smells like and it used to be around us all the time.
Everything that I read about this was, it just kept repeating, repeating, repeating.
The same things we say every single week, exercise, eat clean, don't smoke, drink in
moderation, get a lot of sleep, drink water.
Seven to nine hours.
I mean, it's, it's constant.
Every single week we say the same thing.
I don't know how else to say it.
It's hard.
It's hard to be healthy in this day and age because it's expensive to be healthy in this
day and age.
So you also want to keep alcohol in moderation, manage your stress, you know, because it's
that easy, but also like do it.
And then just like you said earlier, control your cholesterol and blood pressure, which
are those numbers, which my blood pressure usually rises when they put that thing on.
Why?
Are you nervous?
I'm just gonna let you know.
And then they put it around your bicep and then they start squeezing it.
You can feel your heartbeat in your arm and eye, eye that makes me cringe.
So I'm like, I'm thinking about it.
Things are getting worse.
This is my tension.
My accurate reading.
I tell them all the time and they're like, relax.
I'm like, I can't, my heart's in my arm.
There are so many other things I feel like in this world to get anxious about and getting
your blood pressure checked shouldn't be one of them.
Give me a tattoo.
Yeah.
I cannot handle my blood pressure reading.
It's ridiculous.
Oh, and that was another thing.
My blood pressure was a better number would be 120.
I was 126 when I took that test, which made my age of my heart go up.
Those are the simple hashtag quote simple ways to not hashtag.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
We just lost all the Gen Z's.
I meant quote unquote simple because sometimes it's hard to stay that healthy and maintain
it and keep it day in, day out.
But you said hashtag.
I know.
Thank you.
I'm crushing it.
Hashtag crushing it.
So there are a lot of ways that your heart can be not healthy.
I know.
I actually didn't know that.
Let's name them.
Name them.
If you watch Real Housewives, name them.
Why do you look like that when you're saying?
Because I'm pretending to be set in strach from Housewives of Beverly Hills.
This hurts my heart.
Name them.
I don't know what that means, but I like it.
So there's CHD or also known as CAD.
So it's coronary heart disease or coronary artery disease, but you're apparently the
same thing.
That's basically when the tubes that take blood to the heart are narrow or like blocked
due to cholesterol or fatty like plaque.
Right.
And the blood can't get through, so it builds up in your arteries and that's that blockage
can cause the chest pains or a heart attack.
And that basically just means heart attack, coronary heart disease.
And that's, I think, the most common that we hear at least more often.
High blood pressure.
Yeah.
That force of blood against an artery wall is too high.
That's what high blood pressure is, which I truly didn't know.
I just know having bad or high blood pressure is a bad thing.
Right.
That's what, yeah.
Congestive heart failure.
The heart doesn't pump blood as well as it should.
Like all those, all those little tubey tubes, you know, then there's arrhythmia, which is
like either really slow or really fast heart beats and peripheral artery disease, which
is like a circulatory issue.
And I'm like reading these and I was like, oh my gosh, I have that.
I was like WebMDing myself.
No, you don't.
No, you do not.
I know.
But the circulatory disease, part of that is where the blood vessels like reduce the
blood flow to your limbs, basically, and you just don't have good circulation.
But that, it's all connected to the heart.
And I don't think of that when people say, when I think circulation, I know it's blood,
but I don't think, oh, this is a heart issue.
No.
I understand.
The stroke is the damage to the brain, but because of the interruption of blood supply.
So it's not just a brain.
I thought that was a neuro thing only.
It's all connected to the heart.
It's like when I'm, I'm fascinated by this.
I know I can tell.
I know.
Hearts in the moon.
And then there's congenital heart disease, which is an abnormality of the heart that
develops before birth, before birth.
And there's a lot, there's a lot of reasons.
A Pazetano.
Oh yeah.
Amario.
There's a lot of reasons that congenital heart disease, less, I hope I'm saying that
right, CHD can come about before, before you're born.
So those, I think, are the, the ones that I saw over and over and over again.
And there's a lot of early stages of all of these issues that I'm reading through.
I don't know what you found in your research, but I was reading through how, how do you
know you have one of these things, right?
Yes.
It's all chest pain.
It's all comes from the chest pain or your heart's beating too fast.
And there's like, you have to be careful with that though, because that could be a panic
attack.
Right.
And it also could just mean you're exercising and there's a difference between exercising
and your heart rate rising and exercising and being so winded that something is wrong
with your heart and you're having an issue.
So it's a very fine line.
And fine, fine line.
Thank you, Avenue Q, that you, you know, if you're not a medical professional, you might
not know.
And that's why so many heart attacks go undetected until it's too late.
Because if you're, you know, I'm winded after every workout.
Or just having acid reflux and indigestion that goes right to the center and it like
feels, if you've ever had that, if it's painful.
So like you have to know, it's, well, it's hard to know.
So either way, call 911.
That's the number one.
If it is a chest pain of like the extreme and you're not actually doing a vigorous workout,
call 911.
I read for women to know that you're having a heart attack is like when you take too big
of a bite of food and it gets stuck in your throat and you can't get it down.
That's what a heart attack starts when it starts feels like.
Whereas for men, it's more of a pain for women.
It's like you can't get a breath.
It's like something stuck in your throat.
Really?
Like they're two different pains for men and women.
Interesting.
Okay, we're going to do some fun facts about the heart because believe it or not, there
are fun facts about the heart.
I know things I had no idea about maybe should probably go back to school.
We all know that.
I don't think we need to do a little Google search for that.
Oh, the first cell of a heartbeat starts around four weeks.
Four weeks of being like not actually born yet.
I know.
I did not know that and I'm sure a lot of people know that.
But I don't know that.
I didn't know that.
Do you know how many beats the heart does in a day?
I do.
What is it?
A lot.
100,000.
That's a lot.
And it's no bigger than your fist.
Yes, I did know that.
Like a piece of chicken.
The miles of blood vessels in your body can wrap around the world twice.
It's like 60,000 or something.
Thousand miles.
Yeah.
Isn't that crazy?
Yeah, that's in your body.
Yeah.
I know.
Twice.
And I can't even stamp a passport.
It's insane.
Happiness helps lower the risk.
Happiness of murdering your husband.
Or murdering your sister.
We also, as much as we have, said that 60,000 mile blood vessel trail pumps 2,000 gallons
of blood.
I know.
I couldn't.
I don't like that.
I'm in your body right now.
So as a picture, picture this in your mind, throughout your lifetime, three, you know
those trucks on the highway, those three big, long, like 18-wheelers, your body fills up
with blood, three of those in your lifetime, from top to bottom, three of them.
Isn't that crazy?
That's all your blood in your lifetime.
Ew, ew.
I know.
Which is why we're not in the medical profession.
I can't even picture it.
It grosses me out.
So this, I thought, was cool because it also doubles as February Black History Month.
The first open heart surgery was in 1893, which I cannot fathom because that was so
long ago, by a man named Daniel Hale Williams.
And he was the first and few of the black cardiologists in the United States.
And he did it.
He performed it.
But it was a black doctor.
In 1893.
A black doctor.
Yeah, how cool is that?
Yeah, that's awesome.
This was not as cool as that, but most heart attacks happen on Mondays.
I saw that and I was like, that's so weird.
How do they know that?
But then if you think about it, nobody likes Monday.
Well, that's what they said.
Is that why?
The stress of the Monday work week, that's why it happens.
Like, there's a reason.
It's not just like coincidence.
The stress of the work.
And this was the other part of it.
The most number of heart attacks occur each year on Christmas Day.
Yeah.
Because it's that stressful?
I don't know.
I guess.
I mean, that's horrible.
Merry Christmas.
The most in one day.
That's why you have to appreciate that not everybody loves Christmas as much as you.
Well, I'm happy about it.
So my heart is healthy about Christmas.
Broken heart syndrome is a real thing.
I know.
That's so sad.
You can't really, I mean, you can.
Deaths have come from it, but it is very, very, very rare.
But it is different than a heart attack, but it seems similar.
So that's where that fine line comes into play of like, is this, is this what it is?
It's just caused by a rush of stress hormones from an emotional or physical event versus
the issue with the heart, which creates a heart attack, which is like more, you know,
anatomical issue.
So this one comes from stress, which is why managing your stress connecting to your heart
is such an important thing.
But broken heart syndrome is an actual thing.
I couldn't believe that.
Well, have you ever read or seen the notebook?
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
Well, when the wife dies, the husband dies right next to her because he has a broken
heart.
I love you with all my heart.
It's real life.
Thank you, Nicholas Sparks for this wonderful movie and laughing is good for the heart.
Did you know that it reduces that stress?
So maybe if he just laughed a little bit more, what do you want?
What do you want?
Maybe that's why my favorite meme or GIF.
Wait, I have my last one.
Oh, what?
Which is something I 100% thought was true.
Sneezing does not stop your heart.
Well, that's what they always said.
And that's why people say God bless you because they're like, oh, your heart stopped.
God bless you.
Yeah.
You made it out of the sneeze alive.
And they say like you shouldn't hold the sneeze because you're stopping your heart or something.
Right.
But sneezing doesn't actually stop your heart.
Yeah.
Isn't that an issue with like the little hairs on your nose?
I don't know.
I just know that it doesn't stop your heart.
Well, your research did go that deep.
Now I did it.
You know, in Victoria's words, I did not deep dive.
I hope you're all enjoying this heart day because I think it's fascinating.
I think it's very important.
And it's something that you shouldn't wait until you are a 55-year-old female or a 45-year-old
male to think about.
It is the number one killer of women.
The number one.
And people think that it's cancer is the number one way that women die.
Yeah.
It's a disease.
I was shocked because you hear about cancer so much.
And there is only one.
I did read this.
Isn't really cancer of the heart?
It's a very, very, very rare thing.
And it only happens about once a year that somebody gets cancer of the heart.
But it does happen.
Isn't that crazy?
But it's heart disease in women is the number one killer.
Yeah, it's scary.
That's why it's so important that you do cardio and you lift and you eat healthy and
you don't, kids, don't vape.
My God.
It's horrible.
Yeah, I died something I never understood.
It wasn't big when we were, it wasn't big when we were little.
Just cigarettes.
And just cigarettes, which I never did.
We just had the pure nicotine.
Right?
I don't know.
But I was shocked to find out it was the number one killer.
Well, there is a way to help and that is CPR.
I think everyone in the world should know.
I didn't know or get certified in it until we started teaching.
So we started teaching.
And we had to, we had to keep our job because it could happen anywhere and there are not
defibrillators everywhere in the world.
So CPR is super, super important.
It's cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
That's what it stands for.
Have you ever had to do CPR?
No, but I had to get certified when I was a nanny.
Yeah.
For the little boy that I nannied from four months to four years old.
I loved him.
I still love him, but I had to get certified to watch him.
Well, toddler and baby CPR is very different than, I guess, adult CPR or of age CPR.
There's a different way to have to do it.
And I don't know what that way is.
We're not going to talk about that.
But you should all get certified in that if you are around a lot of children or, you know,
you never know if you're at a restaurant.
It is not a bad thing to know.
It's not.
For anybody.
It's not in some sort of profession.
There are three Cs to save a life is what they're called.
The three Cs.
Check, call and compress.
So you check for responsiveness.
Are you OK?
That is the first rule of CPR.
You have to ask.
Are you OK?
So then call, which is call 911.
Or if there's people with you or people around you, you direct somebody to call 911.
Call for it out.
So you ask if someone's OK first.
Then you call 911 and then you start the compressions, which is very forceful and very scary to do.
Well, when I was a kid, I thought I knew CPR because I watched Baywatch.
And on every episode of Baywatch, they pull somebody out of the water and they do CPR.
And I was like, I am a pro because I watch Baywatch every day after school.
You do one, two, three, four, five.
That's not how you do CPR.
You do way more than five.
You definitely have to do way more than five.
But there are so many changes every year of the need or the rules of it, apparently.
They find out new things.
And so it constantly is evolving.
And apparently the mouth to mouth is not necessary.
You know how they tilt your head back and they squeeze your nose and you go in?
That's not a necessary thing anymore.
Yeah.
Why are you laughing?
I'm laughing because when I was younger, I was like, I'm only going to give CPR to somebody
who's hot.
And that was a legit thought I had when I was like 13.
I was like, I'll be a lifeguard, but I'm only going to do CPR to guys.
I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16 and he was gay.
So don't go by me.
Oh my God.
Amazing.
Okay, Carly, we're going to take a little CPR quiz.
What is the first step when you see someone collapse?
Immediately administer chest compressions, call 911, wait for someone else to help.
Are you asking what you should do or what I would do?
Call 911.
Well, technically ask, are you okay?
But according to this, it is call 911 or asking somebody else to call 911.
We're asking somebody else to deal with it.
What is the correct hand position for hands only CPR?
Knee hand position is fine as long as you're doing chest compressions, two hands side by
side on the victim's chest with your fingers kind of like a butterfly or the heel of one
hand in the center of the chest and the other hand directly on top.
Not one.
That's correct.
You should place one heel of the hand in the center of the victim's chest and then
the other one interlinked like in your fingers right on top for the most force.
It's about the force of like the compression.
What's the rate that you should perform chest compressions?
100 to 120 compressions per minute, 130 to 140, 60 to 75.
Oh God.
Which one is right?
The second one.
Cool.
It's the first one.
Okay.
100 to 120 compressions per minute and we're going to talk about how you can gauge that
in a second.
Last question, how long should you conduct CPR?
Until they are alive.
Close.
Okay.
Until help arrives because someone called 911 and somebody better suited is definitely
going to come to help.
Nobody's dying on my watch.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think alive.
Dying on your watch.
So when I look around the class I'm like, how many nurses we got today?
That's the reason.
It's upsetting.
Okay.
So you passed, but like barely, barely passed.
But how do you know if you're doing 100 to 120 chest compressions and that is to sing
a song?
Oh.
Right?
That's the best way to do it.
The first one that I always remember is staying alive.
That's why I was taught when I did it.
Very ironic.
I don't know if I like this.
It's a little too close to home.
I actually didn't think about that.
But it's a good beat for it.
You do on the downbeat is when you're supposed to do the chest compressions and that's how
you're going to make the 100 to 120 per minute.
Staying alive.
Yes.
That can't be appropriate.
I mean, you don't have to sing it in their faces.
You just have to find the rhythm so that you can do it.
Oh, I would be like, excuse me, my pitch is off.
Start again.
Okay.
I started too high.
Hold the phone.
We're going to play a little Spotify game for Carly here.
There is a Spotify list from the American Heart Association called Don't Drop the Beat.
And they have six or seven hours of appropriate songs that you can chest compress to.
Yes.
I don't think you should get your phone out and wait to do them so that you can find the
list.
But if you know the songs, then it's like, oh, I can sing this in my head easily.
So totally have to connect to Bluetooth before I did this.
We're going to see how many songs Carly knows and can sing a line from.
One dance.
Drake.
I need a one dance.
Is that right?
I don't think so.
Yeah.
I need a one dance.
Give us more than that.
No, no, no.
Okay.
Fail.
Okay.
Call me maybe.
I took a wish in a well.
I've not said I'll never tell.
Maybe the chorus.
In my way.
Maybe the chorus is where you should go.
Hey.
I just met you.
There you go.
I'm crazy.
But he has my number.
Keep the beat.
The whole point is to keep the beat.
So call me.
Do not answer unless you know the answer.
I'm already going to regret this one.
Poker face.
How long do I have to sing for?
At least a phrase.
You're just saying words.
My poker face.
It's so bad.
Want to be.
If you want to be my lover, you got to get with my friend.
Keep the beat.
Making loves forever.
Friendship never ends.
It's too slow.
This person is dead.
This is a really flat line.
I think you are failing.
Billie Jean.
Billie Jean is not my lover.
She's just.
She says that I am the one.
But the kid is not my son.
No, no, no.
Oh my God.
Cool.
You're doing a really good job.
I feel it.
Bye bye bye.
Bye bye bye bye bye bye.
That's the phrase you chose.
That's the phrase.
This is how we do it.
All my hands are in air.
It's waving from here to there.
It feels so good.
Okay, that's enough.
Thank you.
We'll call you.
Flowers.
I can buy myself flowers.
Write my name in the sand.
Talk to myself for hours.
I put my little spin on it.
Sure did.
So hit things you don't understand.
My heart is so happy.
No one's listening anymore.
Yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine.
It's the only one I ever want to hear you sing.
Oh my gosh.
I'm not going to lie to you.
There are a lot of Taylor Swift on this list,
but I know you don't know any of them,
so I'm not asking you them.
Okay.
Crazy in love.
Look at soul crazy in love.
Got you looking, got you looking so crazy in love.
Maybe you should have gone with uh oh uh oh.
Oh no no.
Yeah, so there's better ways.
Uh oh uh oh no no.
Uh oh uh oh uh oh no no.
Got me looking so crazy.
My baby, I'm out of myself.
Oh no.
Oh my god.
To be fair, she's trying very hard.
It sounds like she's just making a farce of this.
She is actually putting effort into what's happening.
Well, you, you won.
Can't breathe.
My eyes are crying.
All right, so there, that playlist on Spotify is there,
and they're actually, it's a really good playlist.
So if you just want to listen to the music of having all the same beat,
100, 220 BPM, those songs are the way to go.
But does the count matter?
Like if you just, if you know the song, it's for the beat.
I know, but how, but people might not know the beats in a song.
Yeah, well we know you don't.
We just heard that, and unfortunately we kept trying,
but that's what you have to do.
You just have to keep trying.
I'm crying.
But now we're going to play a little game that's more appropriate for Victoria,
because she might actually know these answers.
I don't know.
I got a 70.
Oh, yeah.
So let's see if Victoria's going to get a little, a little better than that.
I don't think I will, but we'll see.
Before today, the most I knew about the heart was walking through the playground
of a heart at the Franklin Institute.
Yes.
And that was a slide.
You went up the heart and slid down.
I'm pretty sure I did it the wrong way.
So that's true.
All right.
Here we go.
How many chambers does the heart have?
Six, five, four or three?
Six.
I said that too.
It's four.
I thought it was three or three.
Four chambers.
Oh gosh.
Yeah.
You're not going to do well.
I read all of this yesterday, but I didn't, I'm not good at retaining.
Yeah.
The movement of blood through the heart and body is called circulation, locomotion.
Sorry.
That was my hat.
She hit her hat to the microphone.
Heart pump.
Circulation.
Okay.
Perfect.
The beating sound your heart makes comes from blood going in the wrong direction,
valves closing.
Your ears playing tricks on you.
Wait, the beat of the heart that your ears hear, the beating sound your heart makes comes
from the opening and closing valves.
Yeah.
The valves with circulation, the heart provides your body with oxygen, nutrients, a way to
get rid of waste, all of the above.
I mean, all of the above.
The atria are the upstairs chambers of the heart and these parts are the downstairs chambers,
the valves, the ventricles, the candy hearts.
I want to say candy hearts are so bad.
Isn't it ventricle?
It is.
Ventricles.
My hands are sweating.
I'm so nervous.
We didn't do well on school tests.
I'm just letting you know.
We're street smart.
I need flash cards.
That wall separates the left side and the right side of the heart, the atrium, the septum,
the great wall.
Oh, I got to say it twice.
Septum, you're right.
What parts act like the doors that control blood flow in the heart?
Valves, kidneys, chambers.
Sounds a little tricky.
Chamber.
No.
Valves.
Yes.
Okay.
You can keep your heart strong by doing activities like playing outside, riding your bike, smoking,
or eating heart-shaped candy.
Those are your options.
What keeps your heart healthy?
I just love playing outside and riding on my bike.
The fact that I got a 70 on this.
Vains are tubes that carry blood back to the heart, arteries, veins, tubas.
Tubalate the instrument.
Arteries.
No, I said that too.
Vains.
I know they're tubes.
Vains carry blood back to the heart.
I mean, I know that, but you threw me off a tube.
All right.
You got 80%.
You got one more right than I did.
That's not saying much.
It's not.
Because I picked the great wall.
Yeah.
Oh, shut up.
No, you didn't.
Listen, it is, I think, very important to educate yourself so that you can help somebody
else and or help yourself out.
So any of those issues or heart diseases that we mentioned earlier, they can happen to anybody,
right?
And they are something that we can prevent in the simplest of ways of just taking care
of ourselves.
Take care of yourself.
It's easier said than done, and we say it all the time, but it really is get some sunlight,
stress less, eat healthy, exercise, drink water.
And I mean, it's the simplest way to live your life, and it's the hardest way to live
your life.
But it's also the healthiest.
It's super difficult.
It's hard work.
And you have to be up for the challenge, and there's a lot of factors, a lot of factors
that could go against that.
But the whole point is to fight it.
I'm fighting so hard right now to stay with it.
God, laugh your way through it, because that helps.
Laughing helps keep your blood pressure down because it keeps the stress levels down and
it helps your heart.
Everything is so important, and we do it every week here on the podcast.
I will sing for you every week if it means that everybody will have a healthy heart.
And if you don't know your blood pressure numbers or you don't know your resting heart
rate, like the BPM of your resting heart rate, so that when you're exercising and you look
at your watch, if you wear one, how much it spikes, if you don't know what's a good number
for you, it's very, very important to go to your doctor, check these numbers out, learn
about them, ask about them, knowledge is power, and then you can kind of track yourself a
little bit better in those moments.
So for the real tip of the day, I implore you to check it out on your watch if you can't
get to your doctor because I know it's really hard to schedule appointments right now.
So if you check it out on your watch, talk to a nurse friend of yours.
Or do some research of your own of what a healthy heart rate is for you.
I would say more talk to somebody who knows more so that the internet isn't a scary place
to be and tell you that you have all these issues when you're looking up what's a healthy
heart rate for me.
But tracking your numbers so that you know what to look for and you know the difference
between oh, this is a stressful little spike where I'm vigorously doing something strenuous
to my body.
And now for the real extra tip of the week, it's called unbreak my heart, say you love
me again.
Oh, okay.
It means pick one thing that you can improve on keeping your heart healthy.
Just one thing, be listed off all the simple ways that you can improve your life, improve
your heart health, pick one of them and really go for it.
Get that 30 minutes of exercise.
Make a smaller portion on your food choices.
Cut out soda for the day or maybe go down in soda if you're a big soda drinker.
All of that is really weighs heavy on your heart and we want to unbreak your heart.
We want you to love again.
Okay.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
We hope that the end of your February month of 2024 is heart conscious, heart healthy.
Keep your heart happy.
Oh, remember you are always fit to be real and always allowed to be a little extra.
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We are not healthcare professionals.
For all of your health, wellness, fitness and self care needs, please refer to the medical
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whoever it may be.
And then let us know what they say because I guarantee we need to know what to do.
Okay?
Okay, bye.