Why is it healthy to strain your heart through exercise, but unhealthy to strain it through stress, caffeine, nicotine etc? What is the difference between these kinds of cardiac strain?
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I might be completely wrong here, please correct me guys, but here goes.
People who strain their heart with stimulant abuse or stress have a 24/7 high heart rate / high blood pressure. This hurts the whole cardiovascular system, the heart, and other organs.
People who use stimulants moderately (i.e only during the day, think “your morning adderall pill”), or athletes that train during the day, even every day, well that’s only 8 hours a day. The other 16 hours are rest and sleep.
Stress probably isn’t bad for you if you manage to be stressed only 6-8 hours a day and then relaxed. But that’s not how stress works, usually you’ll be stressed 24/7 even at night.
Stimulants aren’t bad for you if you take them once in the morning and be done with it. If you go on a 5 day binge and sleep 2 hours a night, your body won’t be happy.
That being said, anything that increases your blood pressure is bad for you, but it’s not nearly as bad to have it elevated a few hours during the day VS all the time.
Also sports have extra benefits.
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