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Secrets to a Healthier Heart: 6 Tips & 2 Toxins!

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A healthier heart is a happier heart. How do you care for your heart?

If you said, exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet, quit smoking and watch your alcohol intake, you are right. However, you may be missing some key things that make for an even healthier heart, that you may not have thought about.

Your heart is SO important, it has the strongest electromagnetic field in the body.

The heart’s electromagnetic field is 100 times stronger than the field generated by any other organ, including the brain. 

Every time your heart beats, it sends an electrical impulse (or “wave”) that travels through the heart, causing this powerhouse muscle to squeeze and pump blood. The waves produced by the heart’s rhythmic activity are felt by every cell in the body.

Having a healthier heart affects every cell in your body.

There are many simple steps you can take to protect your heart and improve your overall health.

In this blog post, we’ll explore:

  • What a healthier heart is, by western standards, and other views.
  • SIX tips to a healthier heart.
  • 2 Toxins that affect the heart. 

Heart health is an important indicator of overall health in general.
Without your heart, where would you be?

Your cardiovascular system, which includes your heart, arteries, and veins, works nonstop, pumping oxygenated blood throughout the body and moving nutrients, hormones, and other messengers around to where they need to go.

When your heart isn’t healthy, it can lead to a variety of health problems, including coronary artery disease, stroke, heart attack, and high blood pressure. 

What is a Healthier Heart, by Western Standards?

  • Blood pressure in range.
  • CRP within normal levels (this is also use to detect infection, or look for chronic inflammation.
  • Lipid profile that includes healthy LDL.
  • No smoking.
  • An electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) within normal.

What Are Different Views on Heart Health?

Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM the heart is associated with the FIRE element. All organs are interconnected in energy, and in an emotional or spiritual realm, as well. The view of the heart is of a ruler. In the book, Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity, by Jason Elias, L.Ac., and Katherine, Ketcham, the heart is described as a monarch.
The monarch is responsible for maintaining peace and harmony within (1).

Western ways of supporting health, are now encompassing mind-body approaches to all the body, including working on a healthier heart.  Mind-body therapies are also used in complementary services as adjuncts to care for hearth health. These include anthroposophical medicine (a study of the human being, our nature, development and task.) biofeedback, bioresonance, hypnosis, guided imagery, meditation, relaxation, Qigong, tai chi, shiatsu and yoga.

At CBH Energetics, we assess the energetic patterns of your body, and your emotions. If you’ve not viewed our full compliment of scans, bookmark this page to see what all is offered!

If you book a consultation, you might have a discussion about the emotional energy of your organs, including your heart. 

Let’s Get to FIVE Tips to a Healthier Heart!

  1. Eat Heart-Healthy Foods

This one you already know! Eating a heart-healthy diet is one of the most important steps you can take to improve your heart health. There are MANY ways of eating out there, aren’t there? It can get confusing!
General advice on the internet, is to eat a diet that is low in saturated fats, trans fats, and cholesterol and rich in fiber, whole grains and fruits and veggies. As a whole, we agree with this advice, with this caveat:

Everyone has unique food needs. Not everyone does well with grains, and if your digestive health isn’t firing, then all those vegetables can pose a problem. The vegetables may not be THE problem, a microbial imbalance may be, OR a heightened stress response.

Let’s take the mineral sodium, which we energetically test for, along many other minerals. For some of you, limiting your sodium is important for a healthier heart. Yet, too LITTLE sodium is not good for you either.

Many of our clients also report salt cravings! This can be due to stress in the adrenals, and hormone fluctuations like PMS. Clients find it’s hard to resist the salt cravings, even though they know that they might need to watch their sodium.
We look at this holistically, and try to see what is driving cravings. Is it an energetic toxin, like mold?

Mold toxicity can increase the need for electrolytes, and salt, or sodium is one of those. Balance your salt intake with fresh herbs for flavor and an added boost of nutrition, while you address any issues with mold.

Is there stress in an organ system? Stress in the adrenals can come from so many sources, including the emotional stress we all go through, or the physical stress from something like that of a toxin.

When it comes to a healthier heart, fat is still needed in the diet. Eating foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as salmon, tuna, and walnuts, can help reduce your risk of heart issues. Avoiding trans fats, which are found in processed foods, is also important.

Walnuts showed up on your scan as a sensitivity? This could be due to a resonating mold pattern, or some stress in your digestive system or gallbladder. Look for a future post about energetic food sensitivities.     

Eating a variety of healthy foods is key to maintaining a healthy heart, and a healthy digestive system as well. 

  1. Boost Your NO for a Healthier Heart: Exercise Regularly!

This is another tip you know! Regular physical activity is an important part of maintaining a healthy heart. Exercise helps strengthen the muscles of your heart and lungs, which helps improve the circulation of blood throughout your body. Exercise also helps reduce stress and boosts your nitric oxide (NO)!  

NO is a marker of health and disease. 

The production of NO increases in your skeletal muscle in response to exercise. NO changes energy supply in your muscles through modulation of hormones (1). NO causes vasodilation, or opening up of the blood vessels. It increases energy production in your mitochondria, the little powerhouses inside your cells. 

There are a lot of mitochondria (related to Cellular Metabolism on a Full Scan) in your muscles, and they are crucial to your cellular metabolism. 

 L-Arginine is an important amino acid that may show up imbalanced on a report. This amino acid supports a healthy vascular system and blood pressure. We don’t suggest you supplement single amino acids without some research, or speaking to a practitioner.  Amino acids do work together to provide many co-factors and building blocks in your body’s metabolic processes.

Find an activity that you enjoy, such as walking, swimming, or biking. Start your commitment off SLOW, and sustainably. If you haven’t been active for a while, get a clearance from your licensed care practitioner. Gradually increase the intensity and duration of your workouts. 

  1. Reduce Your Different Stressors for a Healthier Heart.

Stress can have a significant impact on your heart health. Stress, in the form of thoughts, feelings and subconscious triggers, can cause your heart rate to increase. Stress can also be created in your body by lack of nutrients, toxins and microbes, and even through happy events such as promotions and having children! This type of stress is called eustress. 

It’s hard to eliminate stressors in this world, isn’t it?

Building your resilience to stress, and finding ways to cope with life, help you have a healthier heart, and cardiovascular system.

Deep breathing, yoga, meditation, and having a support system, all help with stress. Addressing nutrition, and any gut imbalances, or toxic load can also decrease stress in, and ON, your body.

Stress shows up in many ways, physically, and you can see stress in bioresonance reports as well. We expect to see stress in the nervous system, in the form of HPA or HPT axis dysfunction, but we also see it in the digestive system, and emotionally on our Awareness Scans.

Just like exercise, start by carving small spaces in your day for you to take care of yourself. This can look different for everyone. Even just a few moments of breathing can help reduce stress in the moment and improve your overall health.

Addressing digestive or microbial stress, such as SIBO,  requires custom support.

  1. Get Adequate Sleep!

Sleep supports a healthier heart,  because lack of sleep is another stressor! Think back to the last time you couldn’t sleep. How  did you feel? Were you more emotional, or emotionally flat? Did you have increased cravings? Were you able to think clearly, or did you have brain fog?

Sleep helps your body repair itself, by activating the glymphatic system, and can help reduce stress levels. It’s where your body repairs itself, so restful sleep is foundational!

One of the indicators we see, in people with lack of sleep, is ornithine on their reports. This may be an indicator of sleep issues, like sleep disordered breathing. 

Besides creating a bedtime routine and ritual, assess your sleeping patterns at night. Do you wake up frequently? Are you doing this to urinate a lot? Does snoring interfere with your sleep?

Blood sugar imbalances, sleep disordered breathing, and too many stimulants in the day are just a few sleep disruptors.

Aim for a regular bed time, pay attention to caffeine consumption, and practice good sleep hygiene. 

  1. Homeopathic Remedies for Your Healthier Heart!

We love helping you with lifestyle changes, there’s no doubt! We also know that homeopathic remedies offer physical and emotional support when sleep eludes you, or stress takes over. 

Homeopathic remedies are diluted substances that give information to the body as a “kick start” to its own systems. We work with remedy manufacturers hat have simple and complex formulations, that address the physical and emotional needs of each client. They are generally safe for children, older adults, and pets.

Homeopathic remedies are adjuncts, used in conjunction with lifestyle changes, such as those healthier diets, movement, and addressing sleep issues, that support a healthier heart. 

Examples include remedy ingredients like Kali Phos or Coffee Cruda to support sleep. 

And just as with supplements, check any health product you want to take, and any medication you are taking, to make sure there are no interactions.

  1. Watch Sugar Consumption for Heart Health.

We all love something sweet at times, don’t we? It’s important to watch your sugar consumption. Eating too much sugar can increase your risk of heart disease by increasing inflammation in the body, stripping minerals, and even changing blood pressure.

Too much sugar can:

  • Change your triglycerides
  • Stress the inside of your vessels and arteries
  • Stress your pancreas
  • Crowd out other foods
  • Cause tooth decay
  • Increase fungal overgrowths like candida

If you can limit your intake of added sugars, such as those found in desserts, sugary drinks, and processed foods, you are starting the journey to a healthier heart.

Natural sources of sugar, such as fruits, provide fiber, vitamins and minerals. Even if you are worried about something like candida, newer evidence suggests that eliminating fruit may NOT be necessary, after all. 

There’s a LOT that goes on with sugar cravings, and that can include a physical need for nutrients, or an emotional need not being met. It might even involve memories, or a be a habit. It can indicate something deeper, like insulin resistance.

Toxins that affect the heart. 

If you want a healthier heart paying attention to toxins is a tip we encourage! We are all exposed to environmental toxins, and toxins that happen within us, as part of our own body processes. If we care for our organ systems, and how they communicate with each other, they are designed to remove toxins on a daily basis.   Sometimes our toxic load gets high.

Things like heavy metals, mold, and even tick borne microbes can affect us, and affect our heart health.

Heavy Metals 

We’re all exposed to metals in some way, through soil, air, things that contact our skin, including tattoos! Metals are in drinking water, the soil, both naturally and deposited through industry or waste removal. Documentation exists that “heavy metal pollutants damage organ functions and disrupt physiological homeostasis (2).

Heavy metals may play a role in the elevation of blood sugar (2). Blood sugar elevation is a risk factor in heart disease. Specific metals include zinc (which is also a necessary mineral for the body), cadmium, mercury and nickel (3).

Mold

Mold is everywhere, both inside and outside. It’s part of the earth’e ecosystem. There are so many species of mold, and some do cause mold toxicity or mild illness. Mold can affect so many body systems, with a western focus on the respiratory system. Species like Aspergillus may stress the respiratory system as a whole.

What about the heart? One study reported a variety of issues that can arise from exposure to water damaged buildings, where mold, mycotoxins, and bacteria grow. Besides chronic and fungal inflammation of the nasal cavity, and sinuses, (rhinosinusitis),  asthma, immune issues, inhibited mitochondrial function (4).

Cardiovascular stress is also documented. Ochratoxin A has been shown to stress the heart in mice studies(5). This mycotoxin comes from cereal grains, wine and coffee. Many different fungus produce Ochratoxin A, including species of aspergillus.

The good news

The basic advice you’ve been following: eat a healthy diet, move more, decrease your stress, ALL contribute to overall health, not just creating a healthier heart!

Having a heart healthy diet, low in sugar, high in fiber, especially veggie fiber, is a natural detox mechanism for molds that may be present in your digestive tract. Movement stimulates your lymph system, which naturally moves toxins and their byproducts where they need to go, to be eliminated.

There are many herbal and homeopathic tinctures available to work on clearing mold, AND supporting overall heart health! We are always here to help you with testing, lifestyle support, and even habit changes that you are struggling with, at CBH Energetics!

Sources/Citation

  1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4382985/#:~:text=Nitric%20oxide%20production%20increases%20in,a%20pivotal%20role%20in%20metabolism.
  2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/heavy-metal-poisoning#:~:text=Heavy%20metal%20intoxication%20is%20another,or%20workplace%20of%20affected%20people.
  3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21099269/
  4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654247/

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