In honor of National Heart Health Month, why not stock your medicine cabinet with a physician favorite? Forget apples. Experts want you to pop an aspirin a day...and they say it could save your life. Aspirin therapy has made quite a name for itself over the years. According to the experts, aspirin therapy not only reduces the risk of damage during heart attacks, it also prevents stroke and future heart problems. Aspirin interferes with the blood's clotting action. If your vessels have started narrowing from the buildup of fatty deposits in the arteries, then a blood clot can form and block the artery, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Aspirin can reduce the clumping action of platelets. Researchers recommend taking between 80 and 160 mg per day.