Healthy Heart

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S. Keys to prevention include quitting smoking, improving cholesterol, controlling high blood pressure, maintaining a healthy weight, and exercising. Heart disease, also known as cardiovascular disease, includes the whole range of conditions that affect the heart's health: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, congestive heart failure, congenital heart disease, and heart attack, among others.

Understanding the needs of a healthy heart isn't incredibly difficult. First of all, understand that your heart is a muscle and like all the muscles in your body, you can strengthen it with exercise and optimum nutrition or weaken it with a poor food choices and a sedentary lifestyle. Your heart's job is to pump blood, oxygen and nutrients throughout your body. This essential and constant flow of blood and nutrients is called your circulatory system.

The keys to strengthening your heart are diet and exercise. Low-fat foods, high-fiber foods, and foods and supplements rich in heart healthy nutrients such as CoQ10 can help your heart return to or maintain a healthy state.

If you're new to exercise, begin slowly. Start by walking or lightly jogging on a treadmill or stair master, soon your heart will become used to these exercises and as a result, become stronger. Very quickly you'll notice an increase in your fitness level. You'll be able to breathe better, you'll have more energy, and, if you’re watching your food intake, you'll even start to slim your waistline. If going to the gym is not your thing, take a walk, ride your bike, park a good distance away from your shopping destination. Small but consistent effort can yield large results.

One of the best supplements to support heart health is CoQ10. Low tissue and blood levels of CoQ10 have been associated with a wide spectrum of heart and vascular problems: high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, ventricular arrhythmia and heart valve disease.

Your heart is one of the most metabolically active organs in your body. It pumps oxygen and nutrients to all parts of your body more than 100,000 times a day. In a healthy body, tissue concentrations of CoQ10 are very high in the heart. When CoQ10 is abundantly present, the nutrient helps your heart do more work while expending less energy. The result is a stronger, more youthful heart.