Every moment of our human life is inseparable from the heartbeat, and no heartbeat means that there is no life, so the heartbeat is very important for everyone. When we go to the hospital, whether it is a medical treatment or a routine physical examination, we have to measure the heartbeat, and the doctor will listen with a stethoscope or do an electrocardiogram. How many beats per minute is normal? How many times is it best? The longest-lived? Let's take a look.
First of all, what is the normal heartbeat? We go to medical school, teachers and textbooks teach, and normal people have 60 to 100 beats per minute. So this criterion is a criterion for us to diagnose diseases in the clinic, if the heartbeat is greater than 100 times per minute, tachycardia will be diagnosed, if the heartbeat is less than 60 times per minute, bradycardia will be diagnosed. But in clinical practice, we have found that the vast majority of people with 50 to 60 beats per minute are healthy and have no uncomfortable symptoms. So if the heartbeat is more than 50 times and less than 60 times, even if the ECG diagnosis suggests sinus bradycardia, don't worry too much. Because of this, some countries have set the normal value of heartbeat to 50 to 100 beats per minute.
How many heartbeats is best? We humans, from the very early stages of the embryo, have a heartbeat. If the heart is compared to a machine, the machine of our heart for a lifetime is constantly contracting and stretching, and constantly repeating such actions. It is easy to understand that the machine will be broken after a long time, and the human organ has a certain service life, with the increase of age, the heart muscle cells will gradually age, and the entire heart function will gradually decline. Therefore, it is very intuitive to understand that people with fast heartbeat rates have a shorter service life, and people with slow heartbeat rates have a longer service life. Of course, the heartbeat is too slow, but also in the normal range, that is to say, the heartbeat is the best between 50 and 60 times. Indeed, there are many studies suggesting that patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases can reduce complications and mortality if their heart rate is controlled more slowly. Healthy people who do not have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, if the heart rate is slow, the risk of future cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is relatively low.
How to make my heart rate slower? With the previous explanation, if this is the case, how do we make the heart rate slower? For patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, because they often return to the hospital for follow-up consultation, the heart rate can be measured. If the heart rate is greater than 80 beats per minute, we can control it by taking medication. For example, the β receptor blocker commonly used in clinical practice, drugs such as metoprolol, bisoprolol and other drugs can play a role in slowing down the heart rate, and during taking it, we must pay attention to monitoring the heart rate to see if there is an effect, and also observe so as not to be too slow. For healthy adults, if only the heart rate is faster, of course, this side is also fast in the normal range, such as 80+, 90+ times, we can strengthen physical exercise, weight control, regular work and rest, balanced diet, quit smoking and limit alcohol, etc., but also conducive to controlling heart rate.
To sum up, the normal heart rate is 60 to 100 times per minute, more than 50 times is also considered healthy, in the normal range, the heart rate is slower is better, whether it is cardiovascular disease patients or healthy people are the same.
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