Biohacking your heart

TAURINE FOR HEART DISEASES! 1. Taurine (2-aminoethane- sulfonic acid) is the most abundant free amino acid there is in our body [1]. It has various functions throughout the body such as regulation of cell volume, serving as substrate for the formation of bile salts and regulation of the concentration of extracellular free calcium and many cytoprotection effects (protection to the cells).  2. It’s deficiency is associated to cardiomyopathy, damages to the retinal neurons, renal dysfunction and developmental abnormalities. Hence, taurine is one of the most essential substances of the body [2].  3. It can be found in food mostly in fish and shell fish and represents about 60% of the amino acids present in mammalian heart. The heart can make it’s own taurine, but the major myocardial uptake is from the plasma [3]. And although the taurine can be produced by the body, the main source of it is the food [4].  4. Many benefits of taurine are due to it’s antioxidant a...

   CoQ10 - Coenzyme Q10 for a strong heart! A simple search on the oracle google with the words Coenzyme Q10 gives an outstanding  3.480.000 results. But if you ask google scholar, then the result is 50.500 results of scientific articles available for study. Hence, there's a lot of science available about this supplement;  It’s also known as Coenzyme Q10, ubiquinone, ubiquinol and ubidecarenone and it was discovered in 1957;  Although it can be produced by the body it requires at least eight vitamins and many trace elements and is a multistage process [1]. Therefore, it's not easy to the body to produce it;  Science is positively conclusive about the use of CoQ10 for all sorts of cardiovascular diseases. Most of the benefits of CoQ10 came from it’s role in improving the capability of the cells to produce energy [2]; CoQ10 is found in the “batteries” of the cells – the mitochondria, which are the organelles responsible to burn food, convert...

      TURMERIC/CURCUMIN AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Turmeric is obtained from the root of a plant ( Curcuma longa L.). Turmeric has many healthy substances such as thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, ascorbic acid, calcium, phosphorous, sodium and potassium. Turmeric has also a substance called curcumin, which is what gives most of it’s positive effects in the body and also is what gives to turmeric the yellow color. Curcumin has many protective benefits to the heart [1]; Turmeric has anti inflammatory characteristics that have been tested by science [2,3]; Curcumin may also have antithrombotic (diminishes clot formation) [4,5]; It can improve endothelial function in patients with type 2 diabetes [6]; The only problem using turmeric might be the absorption of curcumin, which is quite small when taking alone. But if turmeric is taken with black peper (which contains a substance called peperine), then the peperine helps to increase the absorption of curcumin [...

  THE SUN AND VITAMIN D3 FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE! It’s estimated that about 50% of the population is actually deficient in this vitamin  [1]; Take at least 10 minutes of sunshine every day that is not raining. The darker the skin, the longer you will have to take the sunbath in order to produce vitamin d. Also, the far away from the equator line, the more time you will have to take the sunbath too  [2] .  Radiation from the sun stimulates the production of vitamin d3, which is technically a hormone; Vitamin d3 has the important function of regulating about 229 genes  [3]; Vitamin d3 deficiency is directly related to cardiovascular diseases  [4]; A high concentration of vitamin d3 in serum is correlated with a 43% reduction in cardiometabolic disorders, including metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease  [5]; There is an inverse rela tionship between vitamin d3 concentration and all types of disease mortality  [6]; Vit...