3 Underrated Supplements a Cardiologist Recommends for Heart Health
Humann's Chief Cardiologist on the three heart health supplements he recommends most, and why they get missed.
As a cardiologist, here are three of the most underrated supplements to help support cardiovascular health as part of a healthy lifestyle that are often overlooked that I recommend to my patients.
What is the most underrated factor in cardiovascular health?
The most underrated thing in cardiovascular health isn't a supplement at all — it's a molecule. Nitric oxide is the signal your blood vessels use to relax and widen to help support healthy blood flow and circulation. We fixate on the number on the cuff, but the number is downstream of whether that signaling is working, and it declines due to age, diet, and lifestyle in nearly everyone. That's why I point patients towards Humann SuperBeets Heart Chews because they have clinically researched grape seed extract to help support healthy blood pressure, nitric oxide availability, and healthy blood flow & circulation. The other reason I recommend them is that many people find taking chews is a lot easier and more enjoyable than taking a capsule.
Why do cardiologists recommend CoQ10 for heart health?
CoQ10 is another supplement that gets filed under “energy supplements,” which undersells it. It's a component of how mitochondria produce cellular energy, and the heart holds one of the highest concentrations of it in the body for a simple reason — it's a muscle that contracts roughly 100,000 times a day and never gets a rest period. For patients who want blood pressure support and want to support cellular energy, I recommend Humann SuperBeets Heart Chews Advanced + CoQ10. It pairs the same clinically researched grape seed extract with CoQ10 in two chews.
How much of your cholesterol actually comes from diet?
Here's one more that surprises people: your diet is a smaller part of your cholesterol picture than you'd think. Most of the cholesterol in your body is made by your liver, not eaten. So patients do everything right — clean up the diet, add the exercise — and are frustrated when the panel barely moves. Cholesterol health matters at every age, and in a lot of cases it's genuinely difficult to manage through diet alone. Humann Cholesterol Daily Capsules is what I recommend to fill a gap. It combines two clinically researched ingredients — aged black garlic extract, which delivers S-allylcysteine, and patented Italian citrus bergamot from Calabria — to help promote healthy cholesterol levels, support healthy triglyceride levels, and support healthy lipid metabolism. It works progressively rather than overnight.
