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5 simple tips to support your heart daily

Chasing children, chasing appointments, chasing time for yourself can all take its toll and in today’s busy world, it’s often impossible to slow things down and catch your breath. It is essential that your heart and cardiovascular system needs to be powered up and performing at its best.

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If you’re looking for sustained levels of energy, investing in the cellular health of your heart and blood vessels is going to play a big role in helping you achieve this. But there are also steps you can take every day that will reduce your risk of developing cardiovascular conditions. Below are our top five tips for supporting heart health.

1. Reduce smoking

Smoking has been unequivocally shown to significantly raise your cardiovascular risk. If you do smoke, quitting is a very important tool and is one of the best things you can do for your overall health. This also includes minimizing exposure to second-hand smoke.

2. Evaluate your diet

Diet changes are also extremely important in terms of lowering your overall risk of developing cardiovascular conditions, by reducing risk factors such as high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar. There are many types of foods and ingredients that should be reduced or minimized and there are also those that we should eat more of. It is best to choose mostly healthier, balanced options and consume everything in moderation.

3. Exercise smarter

Exercise and physical activity is another excellent way to reduce your risk factors, and a mix of strength training and cardiovascular exercise is ideal. Regular exercise can reduce your blood pressure, strengthen your heart, help you reach and keep a healthy weight, boost mood and lower stress and also helps you sleep better. If you have an existing condition or are considered at high risk, you should always consult your doctor before starting an exercise regimen. You can start out with short bursts of gentle exercise a couple of times per week and slowly build from there. The key however, is to be consistent and to do exercise that you enjoy and will keep doing.

5. Losing Weight

Losing weight is also important to take some of the strain off your circulatory system. It is possible to eat more healthily and exercise without losing weight, so if you are overweight, specific focus needs to be placed on returning to a healthier weight range. This in turn will reduce many of the other risk factors such as high blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure.

6. Supplements

Supplements are also a great tool you can use to boost the positive effects of a healthy lifestyle. There are many supplements which have been proven to be beneficial in supporting normal cardiovascular function when used alongside a balanced diet and exercise plan.

Choosing the right supplement for heart health can be a little confusing, especially with the amount of options out there. Your heart is one of the hardest working organs in your body and it has high energy needs. That energy is created at a cellular level in your mitochondria and we think that supporting your mitochondria should be one of your top health concerns.

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