If your body is a car, then your heart is the engine.
So what can you do to keep your engine running optimally for a long lifetime?
The answer includes getting enough exercise, sufficient sleep, and proper nutrition. All three are essential for maintaining the health of your heart and preventing illness.
The Black Heart of Chronic Inflammation
One of the key factors in the onset of diseases, including those that are heart-related, is chronic inflammation. Inflammation can result from any number of factors, for example, a lack of physical activity, excessive stress in your life, and toxic environments. Another major factor is poor nutrition. Your diet can provide all the nutrients you need to keep your heart healthy, or it can weaken it with pro-inflammatory foods and drinks, such as fatty meats, bread (made with refined flour), processed snacks (source of trans-fat, preservatives, sugar, etc.), alcohol, most juices, and pop (high sugar content).
Sugar is a primary source of inflammation. Be careful about the amount that ends up in your blood-
stream because your heart continuously pumps blood throughout your body. Blood cells that are a constant source of inflammation—high blood sugar levels (glucose)—can damage your heart valves, contribute to atherosclerosis (risk of heart attack), and form blood clots (risk of stroke). These are just a few examples among many health issues related to inflammation.
The heart of the matter is that you can reduce inflammation with the daily essentials—greens, essential fatty acids, and fiber—and maintain your engine with natural health products.
Heart of Greens
Make sure you are getting enough greens by eating fresh vegetables and supplementing your diet with nutrient-loaded AIM BarleyLife® or AIM LeafGreens™. Taking either product (or both at separate times during the day) has a natural anti-inflammatory effect on your body and helps to keep your pH levels alkaline.
A great addition to promoting heart health is AIM ProPeas™, an all natural vegetable source of protein from non-GMO field peas. Protein keeps body tissues healthy by building, maintaining, and repairing the tissues that compose our muscles, organs, and immune system. Unlike animal protein, vegetable protein promotes a healthy pH balance. Since most of us do not get enough protein in our diets, ProPeas is a natural healthy choice.
Natural Heart Health Products
Further support for your heart is found in the AIM Heart Health Starter Packs, which are less expensive than purchasing the products individually.
US: AIM CellSparc 360®, AIMega®, AIM fit ’n fiber®, AIM CellStar®
CAN: AIM CellSparc 360®, AIMega®, AIM FibreBalance®, AIM Kyolic® Aged Garlic Extract™,
CellSparc 360 for Coenzyme Q10
Of all the nutrients that your heart requires, coenzyme Q10 tops the list. This antioxidant nutrient provides the spark that ignites your energy molecules to life. Your heart requires more energy than any other organ in your body. CellSparc 360 provides a daily supply of coenzyme Q10, especially for the cells of your heart muscles.
AIMega for Omega-3 and -6
Essential Fatty Acids
AIMega provides daily amounts of omega-3 and -6 essential fatty acids (EFAs) for the structure and function of every cell in your heart and body. EFAs must come from your diet on a daily basis because they cannot be produced by your body. EFAs help your heart by improving blood circulation, regulating blood pressure, preventing blood clots, reducing inflammation, and lowering triglyceride and LDL cholesterol levels.
FibreBalance or
fit ’n fiber for Fiber
Your body needs the daily recommended 26–35 g of fiber as well. The heart-health benefits of a fiber-rich diet include a lower risk of coronary heart disease, reduced blood pressure, lower serum cholesterol concentrations, and better control of blood sugar levels (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1994).
Kyolic Aged Garlic Extract and CellStar Pomagrape Juice for Antioxidants
With Aged Garlic Extract you get all of the health benefits of fresh, organic garlic without its disagreeable side effects. The results of a study published in the Journal of Nutrition (2006) provide compelling evidence that Aged Garlic Extract not only helps to prevent heart disease, it also lowers the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s.
CellStar juice belongs in the category of superjuices. Its Pomagrape blend provides antioxidant-rich ingredients, including pomegranate and grape seed extract, which provide heart-health benefits by protecting cells against oxidation.
When it comes to maintaining the health of your body’s engine with heart-healthy supplements, AIM provides only the best available.
For more information on the AIM products in this article, download datasheets from the individual product pages or Member Tools Downloads area at theaimcompanies.com.