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DAILY HEART TIP: If you’re facing any type of heart surgery, pre-dose with CoQ10. Medical research shows those who pre-dose daily with coenzyme Q10 daily for several weeks prior to an elective bypass did much better post-operatively.Rest in peace, Neil Armstrong.

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DAILY HEART TIP: Get heart-healthy OPCs by taking 150–300 mg of grapeseed extract or 100 mg of Pycnogenol daily. These wonderful antioxidants help maintain normal blood pressure, prevent the oxidization of LDL cholesterol, and a host of other heart benefits.

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DAILY HEART TIP: Since sadness and heartbreak can have profound negative impacts on your heart health, you must get to the "heart of the matter" and unpack your emotions. If you need help, counseling with a therapist could be a great option to open your heart to healing.

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DAILY HEART TIP: Rosie O'Donnell recently suffered classic female symptoms of a heart attack: limited chest pressure, but a cold sweat, nausea, and soreness. She did not call 911, but, thankfully, she took an aspirin and got treatment the next day for a 99% blockage of her LAD. Here's her account of her experience: http://rosie.com/my-heart-attack/ Best wishes to Rosie on her quick and complete recovery. (Someone should tell her about the Awesome Foursome!) Women's heart attack symptoms are often much subtler than men's. Here's what you ladies need to know to protect yourselves:

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DAILY HEART TIP: Diuretics are essential for heart failure patients, but for those with mild water retention, try uva ursi extract, 100–200 mg daily. The active compound in uva ursi is arbutin, which increases the excretory power of the kidney.

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DAILY HEART TIP: If you've had a heart attack, there are 4 therapies that can help maximize your heart’s healing and ultimately bring you to an enhanced level of health to help you avoid a second heart attack. Read about them here.

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DAILY HEART TIP: I don’t recommend an aspirin for primary prevention, but it's great medicine for those with known heart disease. Do you take aspirin as part of your daily regimen?

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DAILY HEART TIP: Not only is CoQ10 great for your heart, 100 mg daily also helps quell the inflammation that accompanies gum disease and reduces the depth of pockets in the gums. How do you maintain optimal oral health?

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DAILY HEART TIP: You should never stop beta blockers on your own or abruptly as stopping these drugs suddenly can precipitate angina and cause a heart attack. However, be sure to counter these drugs' depletion of CoQ10 by taking 100–200 mg of hydrosoluble CoQ10 daily.

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DAILY HEART TIP: Angioplasty–stent procedures can be real life-savers in acute coronary situations like heart attacks and can provide profound relief for patients with symptomatic heart disease. However, many doctors are too quick to recommend this surgery to people who may not need it or benefit from it. Get my full recommendations about when “to stent or not to stent” here.

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DAILY HEART TIP: Earthing helps reduce risk of stress-related disorders, including cardiovascular disease by increasing heart rate variability (HRV), the beat-to-beat alteration in heart rate that reflects your ability to respond to stress in a healthy way. Are you grounded?

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DAILY HEART TIP: Factors that negatively affect heart-rate recovery include poor oxygen supply to the tissues and your nervous system constantly reacting to unresolved stress. Assess your cardiac health by measuring your heart-rate recovery after exercise. Here's how to perform this simple test at home.

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DAILY HEART TIP: Women tend to downplay the severity of their symptoms when it comes to heart failure, even though they suffer this form of heart disease as often as men. Ladies, don't brush your symptoms off! Tell your doctor.

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DAILY HEART TIP: If you have a family history of heart disease, you need to know your Lp(a) cholesterol level. Ask you doctor for a VAP test or a Spectracell Test that will reveal your cholesterol sub-components and help your doctor more accurately assess your heart risk. http://ow.ly/3dppO

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DAILY HEART TIP: Although all forms of supplemental L-carnitine are beneficial, I prefer broad-spectrum products that incorporate all forms of the nutrient: L-carnitine fumarate, acetyl-L-carnitine, and propionyl-L-carnitine. Take 500–1,000 mg two to three times daily (total daily dosage: 1–3 grams).

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DAILY HEART TIP: Practicing silence and stillness can have great effects on your stress levels and your heart's health. Here's a heart-smart visualization technique to get you started.

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DAILY HEART TIP: Saturated fats are important to include in your diet because they elicit a much lower insulin response than other foods, which means your body is storing less fat. What's your favorite healthy source of fat? http://blog.drsinatra.com/blog/heart-health-nutrition/saturated-fats-are-heart-healthy

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DAILY HEART TIP: If you are healthy, have high cholesterol but no heart disease, no family history of heart disease, no elevated inflammation markers, or are over 75 years old, I would NOT recommend statins. Click the link for my full recommendations.

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DAILY HEART TIP: About 40% of participants in a (small but rigorous) study exhibited an increase in their heart rates, cardiac arrhythmias, and other heart rate variability disturbances when exposed to a 2.41 GHz cordless phone base station that was actively emitting a signal. It’s not a matter of whether or not EMF is a health risk, but for whom it is a health risk.

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DAILY HEART TIP: If your doctor gives you the green light for intimacy after a heart attack but you're still worried, avoid intimacy one to two hours after meals (digestion shunts blood to the gut, making less available to the heart). What are your plans for Valentine's Day?

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DAILY HEART TIP: Foods that encourage healthy blood flow to your heart and organs will be heart-smart as well as brain-smart, with antioxidants and essential fatty acids at the top of the heap.

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DAILY HEART TIP: Crying at sad movies isn’t the only way to release pent-up emotions and ease pressure on your heart. Here are some other ways to defuse stress and keep your heart healthy.

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DAILY HEART TIP: This story of the whale gratefully thanking the divers that freed her from a tangle of nets provides a heartwarming image of how helping others and gratefully accepting help heals our hearts. Whatever image(s) brings appreciation to your heart, visualize it often and know that by holding on to those feelings of love and gratitude, you are healing your heart.

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DAILY HEART TIP: Dying of a broken heart doesn't only happen in books or movies. Grief is a very real risk for the heart. Do you have a coping strategy to share?

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