Episode Details

Outline:

• Intro today's topic (not your typical heart health conversation) & welcome back, Stephanie
• The heart is a muscle.
• Heart rate & heart rate variability (HRV)
• Blood pressure - systolic & diastolic
• Cholesterol
• Sources: our own body & our food
• Genetics & epigenetics
• HDL (high density lipoprotein) & LDL (low density lipoprotein)
• What are they? What is HDL good? Why is LDL bad?
• Cholesterol ratio
• Triglycerides
• Risk factors for cardiovascular health:
• Non-modifiable: age, gender, ethnicity, family history, gene polymorphisms (SNPs)
• Modifiable: smoking, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, poor nutrition, high cholesterol, high homocysteine, high c-reactive protein (CRP)
• Metabolism
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Feed your heart emotionally & manage stress
• Homocysteine
• C-Reactive Protein (CRP)
• Supplementation
• Omega 3
• CoQ10
• Astaxanthin
• Heart rate training
• Dark chocolate & red wine (resveratrol)
• Reversing diagnoses

Quotes:

"Your genes are NOT your destiny." - Jenn Trepeck

"The future of cardiovascular intervention belongs to prevention." - Jenn Trepeck

"Move your mass."  - Jenn Trepeck

"CoQ10's natural production within the body involves the same enzymes as cholesterol synthesis...reducing cholesterol synthesis with meds alsos suppresses the body's CoQ10 production." - Jenn Trepeck

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