Cardiovascular Health Essentials

At Kardic Health, we understand that heart health isn’t strictly a cardiac issue. Heart health is a function of both your mental and physical well-being. Therefore, we incorporate both integrative and functional medicine into our care continuum to help patients optimize aspects of their lifestyle that directly impact their cardiac function. By doing so, we help maximize the heart health of our patients and reduce their risk of future cardiovascular events.

Our comprehensive diagnostic and treatment process takes into account the following cardiovascular health essentials.

Nutrition and Diet

Poor dietary choices can lead to severe health complications like obesity and diabetes. These conditions put additional stress on the heart and amplify the risk of cardiovascular complications. Therefore, cardiac patients need to avoid refined sugars, processed foods, overly simple carbohydrates, and food that contain unhealthy levels of preservatives.

At Kardic Health, we guide our patients to focus their diet around nutrient-dense, whole foods full of vitamins and minerals. We understand that optimal heart health requires a lifestyle change, and we have the tools to help our patients make the right nutrition choices that benefit them in the long term.

Sleep and Rest

As we get older, our circadian rhythm can become disrupted, meaning that we might not sleep as well as when we were younger. Poor sleep leaves us exhausted and affects other aspects of life, such as mood and cognition. Even worse, this fatigue makes it harder for patients to exercise and take care of themselves, leading to a dangerous cycle of neglect and poor health.

To break this vicious cycle, we encourage our patients to track their sleep and implement evidence-based lifestyle modifications such as setting a regular bedtime schedule and avoiding screen time before bed. We also recommend that patients bring any issues they experience during the night directly to us to evaluate and treat their symptoms appropriately.

Exercise and Physical Wellness

Physical activity has a wide range of cardiovascular benefits, including improved blood flow, lower resting heart rate, reduced inflammation levels, and stronger respiratory function. At Kardic Health, we advise physical activity to all our patients to help them combat the risk factors that come with being sedentary.

Stress Management and Reduction

Although stress cannot be entirely eliminated from our lives, we can mitigate its effects by practicing holistic self-care strategies such as yoga, meditation, and breathwork. By taking time for themselves daily, patients reduce the impact that daily stressors like work and family have on their cardiovascular health.

Our team of integrative cardiologists combines conventional medical therapies with evidence-based lifestyle modifications to help our patients live their best lives.

Advanced Tools

Our team utilizes the best of functional medicine to help our patients make the most of their treatment journey. We recommend breathwork sessions, cardiac coherence tools and other modern technologies to help our patients reach optimal health.

Relationship Optimization

The people that you surround yourself with shape who you are. If the people closest to you stress you out or wear you down, then your cardiovascular health will suffer.

However, if the people around you lift you up, support you and help you grow, then your cardiovascular health has the environment that it needs to flourish. Our team can work with you on some essential communication tools and tips to help you optimize your personal and professional relationships.