The Heart

The heart is the most vital organ in the body.  You have to eat correctly and exercise regularly to keep the heart healthy.  But that is not so easy to do given that most foods are manufactured, GMO, and from soils that are depleted of the 90+ vitamins and minerals required by the body.

Humans get their nutrition from plants.  When the earth was formed over the millions of years all the nutrients for life were contained in mineral form.  We ourselves can not eat and absorb the geological minerals.  However, plants can.  Humans eat the plants and eat the animals that eat the plants.  This is how we obtain the vital nutrients we require.  Unfortunately, the minerals and plants are not distributed evenly around the planet and many areas have been depleted of natural nutrition in the soil.

In order for plants to grow only three nutrients are necessary: Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorus. Vegetable and plant commercial growers can increase yields by using these 3 minerals only in chemical fertilizers.  For the customer that means that none of the other nutrients necessary for human health and life are present.

The heart works very hard and it works continuously:

• The average heart pumps 450 gallons (1703 litres) of blood every day.
• There are about 60,000 miles (96560 kilometers) of blood vessels in the body.
• Every 60 seconds, a single blood cell travels around the entire body.
• Within a 24 hour period the blood travels approximately 12,000 miles (19,312 kilometers).
• The heart beats 100,000 times per day; that is about 35 million times every year and more than 2.5 billion times during a lifetime!

The importance of maintaining heart health becomes even more critical when the mortality rates are examined:

• During 2011, over 1,250,000 Americans had a heart attack. (That’s one heart attack every 34 seconds)
• Americans have 750,000 strokes per year
• Heart disease is the number 1 killer of men and women in the US.
• At least 250,000 people die from a heart attack just one hour after their symptoms begin (and long before they reach the hospital).
• Cardiovascular Disease is also the leading cause of death in Europe.
• Over 4 million Europeans die from cardiovascular disease each year.
• About half of these deaths are from Coronary Heart Disease (the narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart).
• One-third of these deaths are due to stroke (when blood flow to part of the brain stops).
• 17 million people die of cardiovascular disease each year worldwide.
• 15 million people survive minor strokes each year (but not without damage).
• 600 million people with high blood pressure are at risk of heart attack, stroke, and cardiac failure.
• Cardiovascular disease is the biggest health challenge in the world today. (And if you are an athlete or getting on in age you are at even higher risk).
• Most people will ignore this information and become a statistic.  Heart attack and stroke are preventable.
• Four of the ten leading causes of death in the U.S. are associated with diet and nutrition: heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes.
• Essential nutrient deficiencies also contribute to other health problems such as atherosclerosis, hypertension, osteoporosis, and obesity.
• Cholesterol lowering substances may not be a good choice in lieu of understanding why the blood cholesterol is elevated in the first place. ( the brain, blood vessels and key parts of the nervous system are made of cholesterol.)  Therefore, think carefully about trying to lower cholesterol with medicine.  Do your research!

 DON'T BECOME A STATISTIC!!! 

You can reverse cardiovascular disease.  But you have to do more than eat your veggies and super market foods.  Experts agree that nutrition and supplementation are the keys to getting the 90 plus essential nutrients the human body needs.  Supplementation is critical to maintain health, increase performance and reverse cardiovascular damage.  You must know what items with which to supplement.  It also must be noted that many doctors have no training in nutritional supplementation and in fact, are opposed to it. Both Kyani and Youngevity offer scientifically verified supplements that are specifically designed to reverse damage, reduce inflammation, enhance performance and maintain health.

Below is a partial list of items that you should not eat:

• Grain of any type.  This includes wheat, barley, rye and oats
• Gluten, however, there is more wrong with grains than only gluten
• Bread including whole grain bread, multi-grain bread, gluten free bread
• Liquid Bread called "Beer"
• Flour including gluten free flour
• Corn Products, Soy Bean Products
• Low Fat and No Fat Products (fats are important for heart health and vascular health)
• Potatoes (Sweet Potatoes excluded), Rice, Starches, Pasta of any kind, Pizzas, etc.
• Snack foods such as popcorn, pretzels, crisps, chips, candy bars, chewing gum, etc.
• GMO, Foods and Drinks with Aspartame or any artificial sweetener (Stevia and Xylotol are natural and safe)
• Carbonated Drinks including cola's, diet drinks, coloured or clear drinks 
• Baby formulas and Gator Aid type drinks both of which have limited nutrition
• Caffeinated Power Drinks
• Sugar (40% of granulated sugar is made from GMO sugar beets). Natural unprocessed honey is ok.
• Cooking Oil including, corn oil, sunflower oil, olive oil, rapeseed oil, canola oil (Coconut Oil is ok)
• Fried foods of any type
• Manufactured or processed foods (from a factory)
• Chemically preserved foods
• Food which contain food additives
• High Fructose Corn Syrup or Corn Sugar
• Stay away from sweets and pastries
• Large sweet fruits such as Pineapples, Peaches, Oranges, Nectarines, etc
• Kiwi
• Non-organic fruits and vegetables that may contain GMO's
• Non-organic Meats that may have been fed GMO feeds and contain antibiotics and injected hormones to enhance growth
• Non-organic Poultry which may have been fed GMO feeds, antibiotics and injected hormones to enhance growth
• Farm raised fish which also have been fed GMO feeds, antibiotics and hormones to enhance growth

At this point most people start to ask what can they eat?  Here is a partial list of reminders of what you can and should eat.  However, you must be creative and investigate your particular circumstances:

• All your food must be natural and organic
• You want small fruits like berries (not strawberries.  Unless they are wild they are mostly GMO)
• Wild fruits from foraging
• Wild fish not farm raised fish that have been poached or baked; not fried in oil
• You want organic, naturally fed and raised meat not grain fed meat
• Use millet, quinoa, buckwheat (a herb)
• Organic vegetables
• Natural foods not processed
• Coconut oil
• Plant derived collodial vitamin and mineral supplements not grocery store geological vitamins formed with GMO binders.
• Whey from grass fed cows or hemp seed protein without artificial sweeteners
• Natural Omega 3, 6, 9 (Kyani uses Sockeye salmon from the wild that feed on plant material), high quality cod liver oil, flax seed oil that has been protected from the sun and refrigerated, hemp seed oil also dry roasted nuts.
• Eggs.  Farm fresh organic eggs.  Dr. Wallach suggests at least 6 eggs per day, soft boiled or poached
• Butter not margerine
• Use Coconut oil
• Bone Soup
• Probiotics in natural safe forms
• Fermented food like: Kambucha, Kefir, Yogurt, Sauerkraut, Kimchi, Miso Soup,etc. (Pickles are not fermented)
• Clean water not from a plastic bottle
• Himalayan Crystal Salt
• Get Sun.  You need it for heart health
• Supplement with Kyani Health Triangle products and Youngevity products
• Dr. Barrie Tan has shown through his ground breaking research that Tocotrienols not in the presence of Tocopherols and available from Kyani greatly improves heart health.   (However, when mixed with Tocopherols they tend to neutralize each other and in fact can raise blood pressure.  Only the Annato seed when properly processed has the Tocotrienols available without the presence ofTocopherols.  Tocotrienols come from plants.  Tocopherols come from animals.  See the side panel video to learn about this)
• The typical food triangle for a "good diet" is amazingly deficient in what your body requires to be healthy.  When it comes to your health do not cut corners.  Many so called supplements are useless because they are in a form that can not be used by the body.
• If you are overweight you still need to avoid dangerous foods and eat the healthy ones.  Obesity is as a result of some sort of nutritional deficiency as much as any other disease.

If you already have an impaired cardiovascular system as in high blood pressure, heart failure, heart attack, stroke, etc and with your educated health care provider's advice you should consider supplementing with Nitric Oxide such as Nitro Xtreme from Kyani and a number of other natural non-drug supplements.  Do your research!

This information is not just critical for those who have cardiovascular disease.  If you want to maintain optimum health, reverse cellular damage, reduce inflammation and increase athletic performance please consider the above information.

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