Question

Find recent (within the past year) research regarding the most effective heart health nutrients/supplements in addition to CoQ10. Thoroughly explain each of these nutrients in terms of the physiology of heart health. (1 page). Ensure in your own words and obtain the most recent research.

Answer 1

1. Pantethine

Pantethine, the active form of pantothenic acid, is the most important component of CoQ10, and research supports its use for lowering high cholesterol levels.

2. Omega-3s

Omega-3 fatty acids are found in plant foods such as flaxseeds and animal foods such as coldwater fish. Fish oil has been shown to reduce the risk for having a heart attack or a stroke. It has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity. And it helps decrease the risk of sudden cardiac death.action of omega-3s is that they are anti-inflammatory. Inflammation either causes, promotes, or amplifies just about every degenerative disease known- including heart disease. And low levels of omega-3s have been associated with everything from heart disease to ADHD. That's why I recommend omega-3 supplements for everyone, including children.

3. Magnesium

Magnesium is the ultimate "anti-stress" nutrient. It basically calms things down, functioning as a kind of relaxent It dilates the arteries, which lowers blood pressure and makes it a lot easier for the heart to pump blood. It improves sleep, which in turn lowers stress. It helps lower blood sugar.

4. Niacin

Niacin is accepted even by mainstream doctors because it lowers cholesterol. But its real value is that it lowers Lp(a), an independent risk factor for heart disease and heart attacks. It also raises HDL cholesterol, specifically HDL-2 cholesterol which is the most beneficial of the HDL subclasses.

5. D-Ribose

D-ribose is another of the components of ATP, that cellular energy molecule we talked about earlier. Without D-ribose, you've got no ATP. Without ATP, you've got no energy to do anything, including basic metabolic functions. When the heart is stressed, it can't make enough D-ribose to replace lost energy quickly.D-ribose stores in the body are "tissue-specific"-the heart can't "borrow" D-ribose stores from the liver. It has to have its own stash.

6. L-Carnitine

L-carnitine is like a shuttle bus that transports fatty acids into the mitochondria-little energy plants within the cells-where those fats can be burned for energy. Because the heart gets 60 percent of its energy from fat, it's very important that the body has enough L-carnitine to shuttle the fatty acids into the heart's muscle cells. A number of studies have shown that L-carnitine can improve exercise endurance in heart patients, and in some research carnitine actually improves survival rate.

7. Vitamin K

Vitamin K actually comes in two "flavors," K1 and K2. Most people know of vitamin K because it's involved in clotting, something that's necessary if you're not going to bleed to death from a paper cut! But clotting is a property of vitamin K1. Vitamin K2 has a whole different resumé. It's important for the heart, because it helps get calcium into the bones where it belongs, and helps it stay out of the arteries, where it doesn't. For its ability to help prevent calcification in the arteries.

8. Citrus Bergamot

I've been a fan of citrus bergamot for quite a while because it has an impressive resumé of beneficial effects on metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome-also known as prediabetes-is a collection of symptoms (including high triglycerides, high blood sugar, and abdominal obesity) that greatly increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Citrus bergamot, with its rich array of polyphenols, has a beneficial effect on at least three of the defining characteristics of metabolic syndrome. It lowers triglycerides, raises HDL, and lowers blood sugar, making it a shoo-in for a well-rounded heart protection supplement regimen.

What's important to remember is that the heart doesn't operate in a vacuum. So although supplements such as probiotics, vitamin D, resveratrol, curcumin, Niagen, and fiber may not be directly associated with heart health, they're associated with processes and metabolic operations that are essential for your overall health. Probiotics nourish the all-important microbiome. Resveratrol and curcumin are very anti-inflammatory. Vitamin D is needed for just about everything.

Above were the most basic nutrient that help the heart ,buyt rational to it excercise is must to utilise them.
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