How to Stop a Heart Attack ~ Dr. Eric Berg

milligrams would help.

If you've been prescribed nitroglycerin, you can take some of that.

That's a vasodilator.

It can actually help pull someone out of an angina attack.

So what's happening when you're getting a heart attack? Well, you're getting a cramp of your heart, because the main artery to the heart, it's called the coronary artery, is either constricted it's going into a spasm by itself for some reason.

And then the muscle of the heart cramps because it doesn't have enough oxygen, okay? And that's what you feel when you have chest pain.

So basically it's like a muscle cramp.

There are several things that can actually help that situation.

When someone takes nitroglycerin, for example, which by the way, you may have heard of nitroglycerin being very explosive, right? Well, the difference between that And the drug nitroglycerin is the drug is much less concentrated, okay? But they're basically the same molecule.

And nitroglycerin increases something called nitric oxide, which is a vasodilator.

So vasodilation increases oxygen.