Three key areas are central to cardiovascular wellness: blood pressure (circulation), cholesterol (and other blood fats), and the health of the heart muscle itself. Cardiovascular fitness depends on each of these key areas working optimally. Science supports the effective use of dietary supplements to greatly assist you in your efforts to maintain...

Leptinal® provides nutrients that are vital for your circulatory system. The endothelial cells that line your arteries send out signals that work with your heart and muscle contractions to create the ebb and flow of your blood pressure (systolic = higher number and diastolic = lower number). These cells accomplish this by using regulatory signals called...

Diet, exercise, weight management, and dietary supplements form a terrific approach to healthfully managing your cholesterol fitness. The new science shows that keeping your cholesterol levels in a healthy range requires that you properly manage the entire subject of fat. This includes triglyceride metabolism, weight management, the condition of your...

Adrenals are your glands of stress tolerance that enable you to cope with the pressures and demands in your life. If your life were predictable, monotonous, and boring, then you would not need any adrenal glands as there would be no changes your body would ever need to adapt to or manage. Problems with the adrenals happen when they are forced to work...

Pumping blood around your body requires pressurization in order to properly deliver oxygen and nutrients to places that need them. Blood pressure naturally rises when demands increase, such as to meet the needs of an emotionally or physically demanding situation. Once the extra demands are over, then blood pressure should return to a relaxed baseline....

A remarkable amount of new science is opening the door to help you maintain proper cholesterol metabolism. Cholesterol is essential for health in many different ways. Our society has been dumbed down by labeling LDL cholesterol as "bad." LDL cholesterol is vital for survival. Understanding how it works as part of your overall cholesterol fitness plan will...

Studies show teenagers aerobic fitness contributes to higher IQ's at age 18, and greater likelihood of future success.

Spanish researchers have gone to great lengths to correlate the blood levels of a variety of nutrients to the physical fitness of teens, while controlling for many variables to help assure the validity of their findings. Their results show that lacking key nutrients can compromise physical fitness.

A new study has evaluated the cardiorespiratory fitness of 1,025 children and 971 teenagers, based on how long they were breastfed. Breastfeeding for longer than six months enabled superior cardiorespiratory fitness, independent of any confounding variables such as birth weight or body weight.

On the cover of my book, The Leptin Diet, is the million dollar question, “How fit is your fat?” Scientists are now catching on to this concept and actively studying how a fit leptin system results in a fit metabolism and proper body weight that are likely to provide significant reduction in the development of cardiovascular disease.

An interesting new study in older Americans shows very clearly that those who are the most fit live the longest. Fit fatter people live longer than thin unfit people. Of course, those who are overweight have a tendency to become unfit – a bad combination. It is now also clear that those overweight early in life are more likely to get a variety of...

Two randomized, controlled, double-blind, crossover human-intervention trials were conducted with 21 healthy men who consumed various doses of blueberry polyphenols in concentrated form to determine the effect on vascular fitness.

Cardiovascular fitness is associated with cognition in young adulthood.

Relation of cardiorespiratory fitness to inflammatory markers, fibrinolytic factors, and lipoprotein(a) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Iron and vitamin status biomarkers and its association with physical fitness in adolescents. The HELENA study

Shorter term aerobic exercise improves brain, cognition, and cardiovascular fitness in aging

Exclusive breastfeeding duration and cardiorespiratory fitness in children and adolescents

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Adiposity as Mortality Predictors in Older Adults