If You Want a Healthier Heart, Eat Real Food

Your heart is a machine that needs the proper exercise and certain nutrients to be healthy.

Cardiac muscle is specialized and unique. It continuously works through your entire life. Cardiac muscle resembles some characteristics of skeletal muscle, since it is striated, but functionality, cardiac muscle more closely resembles smooth muscle, since the continuous contractions of the heart are involuntary.

Every minute, your heart pumps about 5 liters of blood throughout your body.

50% of sunshine is infrared, 40% visible light and 10% ultraviolet. When you are in sunshine, your blood can absorb both ultraviolet and infrared energy, which can help to energize your mitochondria to produce more energy. The heart has the largest concentration of mitochondria, which makes sense, since it is the "workhorse" of the body.

Heart Problems Can be Related to Nutrient Deficiencies:

Chronic nutrient deficiencies can lead to a number of heart problems.

Nutrients that are important for heart health include, but are not limited to; B vitamins (including folate or B9 and B12), carnitine, taurine, coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), magnesium, vitamin K2, vitamin D and animal-based omega-3.

All of these also play important roles in keeping your mitochondria working properly. Antioxidant polyphenols are also important for fighting inflammation and damage caused by free radicals.

The greatest chance to have a healthy heart is to exercise regularly, manage stress, get out in the sun, sleep well, drink plenty of pure water, stay away from processed foods and sugar and eat a varied diet of whole foods, rich in fresh fruits, berries and vegetables that are preferably organic , but at least GMO free.

That sums it up in a short paragraph, but as the old expression goes - "It is easier said than done"!

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