The Performing Heart

A Well-Supported Heart Doesn’t Just Beat - It Performs

Whether it’s flu season or time for a liver cleanse, your heart is always on beat, showing up for every season of life.  No matter how chaotic the world becomes — every stress, every joy, every late-night worry — your heart is expected to stay strong and steady, adapting to the highs and lows of how you live, breathe, and take care of yourself day in and day out.

With everything this world is asking of us, our hearts may require greater intention and targeted support.  Below are five powerful nutrients that can help keep your heart on track, leaving you feeling supported when stress is coming from every direction.        

1. PQQ + CoQ10: Your heart runs on energy, and PQQ with CoQ10 functions together to directly support ATP production in the heart while promoting mitochondrial biogenesis.* It’s like the gas and oil to the engine — when these two are plentiful, the overall system runs steadier, clearer, and more efficiently with its output.

2. Cod Liver Oil: This timeless family remedy is backed by decades of science demonstrating its support to the brain, heart, eyes, and all the cells in your body.* Specifically for the heart, Cod Liver Oil’s essential fatty acids (DHA and EPA) have pro-resolving mediators that help regulate eicosanoid pathways, promoting a healthy inflammatory response essential for flexible, efficient blood flow.* 

3. Magnesium: An essential mineral that helps your nerves settle, your muscles relax, and your sleep deepen.* I like to think of it as equivalent to an exhale of a breath — the breath you didn’t know you were holding in until it finally left the body. As for the heart, magnesium promotes a more harmonious rhythm, supporting a smooth myocardial contraction and relaxation, maintaining a healthy vascular tone.*   

4. Garlic: Garlic has always been revered as bold, not so much in beauty but definitely in taste and how it fiercely supports healthy circulation and immune strength.* Garlic’s primary active compound, allicin, directly supports healthy platelet function, promoting optimal vascular dilation and smooth blood flow.*

5. L-Carnitine: We have spoken about ATP with PQQ & CoQ10 and Cod Liver Oil’s precious fats, DHA & EPA. L-carnitine performs a highly specialized job, escorting fatty acids straight into the mitochondria for ATP production.* And while it is responsible for this transport into the cell, it also carries the metabolic trash out the back door to maintain optimal cell function.* While most people do well with 250-500 mg, those who need more targeted support may go up to 1 gram per day.  

Your heart is with you every step of the way, performing a continuous, high-precision biochemical symphony. It’s not simply beating but is highly dependent on steady mitochondrial energy, nutrient transport, vascular integrity, and cellular fuel. The nutrients above are not superficial wishful thinking but examples of how small, targeted decisions can interact with real mechanisms of the body to shift entire physiologic systems: energy production, vascular tone, lipid signaling, nitric oxide pathways, and cellular fuel utilization.* Biochemistry at its finest, performing real results.*