Having Survived Three Heart Sugeries Himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger Warns About Correlation of Meal Timings and Cardiovascular Diseases

Bodybuilding legend Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a victim of a generational heart disease. He discovered it from his mother and started weightlifting to stay fit in his teens, and continues to make sure that he leads a healthy lifestyle. This is because he knows the positive advantages of being fit, especially after already undergoing 3 heart surgeries. The 7X Mr. Olympia, taking to his personal experience and profound research, recently shared tips on his daily newsletter, Arnold’s Pump Club, to keep one’s heart health upgraded.

From connecting meal timings to cardiovascular diseases to maintaining the sleep test, he also shared facts based on a recent study. It stated that people who eat their first and last meals, earlier in the day, are less prone to cardiovascular diseases. He wrote, “Specifically, people who have their first meal before 8 am and their last meal before 8 pm tend to have a lower risk than those who eat their first meal after 9 am and their last meal after 9 pm.”

Even though the study did not assess cause and effect, it took other factors into account, like people having unhealthy habits like eating later. It is reliable because it was conducted with more than 100,000 people, and it isn’t the first study that says something. Having meals before 9 am and 9 pm gives out better sleep quality, circadian rhythm regularity, and blood pressure, which are all related to cardiovascular health. He wrote, “The data suggests that people who eat their first meal after 9 am are 6 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease — and that increases by 6 percent every additional hour without eating“.

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Eating after 9 pm is associated with a 28% increase in the risk of cerebrovascular disease (such as stroke) compared to eating earlier“, he concluded. Arnold Schwarzenegger even goes on to highlight the importance of having a good session of cardio to stay fit.

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Further, in the Newsletter, The Austrian Oak stated another research that says aerobic training helps in optimizing cardiovascular health and also reduces any risk of having such diseases. Resistance training alone does not boost heart health as much as a good session of cardio can.

However, only cardio does not do the trick. In a lot of studies, it has been discovered that people who performed both cardio and weights have the biggest reduction in 10-year risk for coronary heart disease. What are your thoughts on the advice of the 7X Mr. Olympia champion? Let us know in the comments section below!

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