Heart Health
Your body’s most important organ needs care and attention. Exercising our hearts and minds to reduce heart disease risk factors – especially stress – is vital to keep us strong and well. Strengthen your heart and reduce risk factors with good nutrition, stress reduction, and movement.
Nutrition
A healthy diet is key to a healthy heart, as is understanding your bloodwork when modifying your diet to improve lab values and overall heart health. Dietary recommendations unique to you can really help reduce elevated cholesterol levels and blood pressure while managing your weight as you get on the right track.
Nutrition Consultation - A personalized approach to food plans and appropriate supplementation as needed to maintain a heart healthy diet.
Health Coach
Hypnotherapy - Discover how releasing weight is not simply about will power but more about alignment, awareness and choice.
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For more information contact Sharon O’Brien,
sobrien@mandelljcc.org, 860-231-6333 |
Stress Management
Studies suggest that high levels of the hormone cortisol (which is released in response to stress) can increase blood cholesterol, triglycerides, blood sugar and blood pressure. Learning and/or using techniques to help calm the mind and relax the body can bring you peace, as well as reduce your heart risk factors.
Massage Therapy - lowers blood pressure, increases blood flow (especially venous return), awakens dormant capillaries which expand, and eases breathing by relaxing muscles used to breath.
Guided Relaxation - helps you achieve a state of inner calm and can decrease blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension and, perhaps of most importance, provide a sense of peace.
M-technique - uses light touch to induce relaxation and aid in stress relief.
Hypnotherapy - Anxiety is a common occurrence after a cardiac event and can be in stressful situations daily. Hypnosis will not only sooth heart attack fears but aid in relaxation to reduce blood pressure and heart rate and give your heart a rest.
Sound and Energy Therapy - Experience deep relaxation in this emersion of sound and vibration.
Yoga - has been shown to control blood pressure and may also improve the blood flow and make arteries and veins more elastic. Yoga can also help reduce the stress and provide gentle physical exercise to aid in heart health.
Herbal Medicine - Herbal prescriptions by a naturopathic physician can be a targeted approach to address underlying heart disease risk factors, including disturbances in emotions, hormones, the nervous system, and inflammation.
Naturopathic Medicine - A comprehensive natural approach to address and prevent underlying risk factors of heart disease. Evaluation and management of sleep, nutritional status, hormones can greatly benefit conventional treatment.
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For more information contact Sharon O’Brien,
sobrien@mandelljcc.org, 860-231-6333 |
Fitness
Regular exercise improves factors linked to cardiovascular health, resulting in lower blood pressure, healthier cholesterol levels, and better blood sugar regulation. Thirty minutes a day seems to be the sweet spot for movement – but even three 10-minute sessions is helpful for your heart. Find something you enjoy doing and a partner to support you or exercise with you.
Personal Training - Farrah Mead, Fitness Director, fmead@mandelljcc.org
Pilates Reformer - Carmen Erian, Group Fitness Director, cerian@mandelljcc.org
Group fitness - Carmen Erian, Group Fitness Director, cerian@mandelljcc.org
Water Exercise - Jaine Mazer, Aquatics Director, jmazer@mandelljcc.org
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