Keep your heart healthy.
When you get your blood pressure and cholesterol checked, it’s actually your blood vessel health that’s being measured – and this in turn gives an indication of the likelihood that you’ll develop heart problems. We developed CardiMax to help optimise your heart functions.
Dosage:
1 Capsule 2 x per day or as prescribed by your health care practitioner.
Avoid CardiMax during pregnancy
Ingredients
L-Arginine
Research shows that L-arginine is beneficial for lowering inflammation and improving the health of the blood vessels and cardiovascular system. For people with high risk factors for coronary heart disease, L-arginine supplements can be an effective measure for preventing a heart attack or stroke.
Some of the ways that L-arginine improves cardiovascular health include preventing high blood pressure, improving blood flow in people with clogged arteries (coronary artery disease), lowering high cholesterol, helping relieve congestive heart failure, improving stamina and reducing symptoms associated with cut-off blood flow from the heart to the limbs (called claudication).
It’s also commonly used for treating chest pains (angina pectoris) because of the effects of nitric oxide preventing blood clots (thrombosis) that cut off blood supply. L-Arginine is capable of safely improving exercise performance in people with low stamina, circulation problems and a history of heart disease.
Hawthorn Berry
Hawthorn has shown itself to be impressively helpful for all kinds of serious heart concerns. These include heart failure, heart disease, angina pectoris, changes in cardiac rhythm, and atherosclerosis.
Research has shown that hawthorn can even have a helpful effect on congestive heart failure (CHF). Multiple studies have shown that hawthorn supplementation has resulted in improved in cardiac function based on a number of parameters. These parameters include blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac output and exercise tolerance.
Hibiscus Flower
Several studies have found it to lower blood pressure significantly, even in patients with certain health conditions that increase the risk of high blood pressure.
A 2013 review by the University of Arizona discovered that hibiscus tea is used in 10 or more countries as normal treatment for hypertension without any reported adverse events or side effects
High blood pressure and dyslipidemia are two heart disease risk factors that are part of the greater cluster of symptoms known as metabolic syndrome, which also points to an elevated risk of diabetes and stroke. In a study published in Phytomedicine, scientists recommend the use of hibiscus extracts to naturally lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels in patients with metabolic syndrome.
Dong Quai
Dong quai can help with heart health in a number of ways. Firstly, it has been directly connected with lowered blood pressure in research studies, and it can also treat abnormal heart rhythms due to its antispasmodic capabilities. Finally, this root can reduce excess platelet build-up in the arteries and blood vessels, which is one of the main causes of atherosclerosis, strokes, and heart attacks.
Dong quai contains coumarin, one of the key ingredients responsible for blood thinning, making it ideal in a heart supplement, as blood clotting risks may lead to stokes. (Care should thus be taken when you combine Dong quai with chemical blood thinners, that blood clotting stays within desirable parapeters)
Tribulus
Tribulus terrestris has been shown to work as a natural diuretic, helping to increase urine production and flush out the body.
Tribulus terrestris decrease inflammation, which is believed to play an integral role in heart health, but it has also been shown to reduce several risk factors of heart disease.
In a study of 75 people with high blood pressure, Tribulus reduced blood pressure and decreased heart rate.
In another study Tribulus reduced blood pressure by decreasing the activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE). ACE is an enzyme that increases blood pressure by constricting blood vessels. Based on this study, Tribulus acts very similar to drugs commonly prescribed for high blood pressure (called ACE inhibitors).
To sum it up, Tribulus can protect heart cells from stress and may improve heart health by lowering blood pressure.
Magnesium Orotate
A study in 2009 concluded that magnesium orotate may be used as adjuvant therapy in patients on optimal treatment for severe congestive heart failure, increasing survival rate and improving clinical symptoms and patient's quality of life.
The orotic acid part of magnesium orotate is unique in helping to kick-start the manufacture of more myocardial protein for damaged heart tissue after heart attacks, and in stimulating the synthesis of glycogen and ATP.
Magnesium orotate improves the survival of cells situated within or near a necrotic lesion and hence aids in the prevention of or survival after heart attacks.
Magnesium orotate has been shown to reduce the severity of chronic myocardial dysfunction and structural damage in cardiomyopathy. It supplies much needed energy to an oxygen-starved heart by driving the pentose pathway. This pathway is an alternative non-oxygen requiring pathway to glycolysis.
Magnesium orotate improves left ventricular function and exercise tolerance in patients with coronary heart disease.
Olive Leaf
Olive leaves have been used as an herbal tonic to support cardiovascular function for thousands of years. Olive leaf extract have been shown to help reduce elevated LDL-cholesterol levels and assist in the maintenance of normal blood pressure. Oleuropein, the main glycoside present in olive leaf, and hydroxytyrosol, the principal product of oleuropein that is present in olives and olive leafs, have both been linked to reduction of coronary heart disease and certain cancers.
A 2011 study evaluated the effectiveness of olive leaf extract and showed that it significantly reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
Cordyceps
Cordyceps are approved in China for the treatment of arrhythmia, a condition in which the heartbeat is too slow, too fast or irregular.
A study found that Cordyceps significantly reduced heart injuries in rats with chronic kidney disease. Injuries to the heart from chronic kidney disease are thought to increase the risk of heart failure, so reducing these injuries may help avoid this outcome.
The researchers attributed these findings to the adenosine content of Cordyceps. Adenosine is a naturally occurring compound that has heart-protective effects.
Cordyceps may also have a beneficial effect on cholesterol levels.