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Can Your Blue Mood Cause A Heart Attack?

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July 12, 2010
	Dr. Gary Huber : Head Medical Ego

For years I have been telling patients that “thoughts are things.” Thoughts are real entities that have energetic power and affect your physiology so be careful what you allow your mind to ponder. If you focus on bad things and allow yourself to entertain negative images this creates health problems. 

This is not my creation but rather a known entity that has been around for many years. Of late, there is mounting evidence to convince even the most stubborn doubting Thomas that this is very real. Real as a heart attack.

Studies out of the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 2009) show that depression is linked to heart disease and heart attacks. 

The heart is linked to our brain and the rest of the body in many ways.  There are hormonal signals, as the heart holds the greatest density of testosterone receptors of any tissue in the body. There are neurological signals via the nervous system and so stress and thoughts affect our nervous system and its relative state of alarm versus calm. There is also electromagnetic communication through electromagnetic fields.  Certainly a simple look at an EKG will affirm that the heart is swimming in electromagnetic fields. So the heart and brain are most certainly connected and one will affect the other.

Heart attacks are devastating events, causing fear and panic within the whole family, and changing forever the nature of the victim’s life.  But only about 10% of all heart attacks end in death. 

If you were going to try and predict which heart attacks victims would die from their heart attack, which information would you think most likely help you guess correctly:

A.  Their blood pressure or a history of hypertension

B.  Their blood sugar or history of diabetes

C.  Their cholesterol numbers

D.  Their mood

All of these items are elements that increase your risk for having a heart attack but the best predictor of those who will die from one is their mood. 

Depression is the greatest predictor of fatal myocardial infarction (heart attack). But there is more.

Of those individuals that suffer a heart attack, 60% of them will begin to experience symptoms of depression within the 12 months following the heart attack. 

If depression does occur following a heart attack then the risk of dying doubles in the subsequent months if a second heart attack occurs. So, not only does being depressed increase risk of death at the time of a heart event but also predicts greater risk in the future. 

Just reading this is probably making you depressed.

Don’t allow this information to bring you down; it is intended to highlight the greater part of this equation which is “let’s use our thoughts and emotion to avoid a heart attack.”