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How to Improve Heart Health

Good Heart Health
No other muscle in the body works out like the heart does – by beating around 100,000 times a day it pumps around 2,000 gallons of blood every day.  This vital process not only provides fresh oxygen and nutrients to organs and tissues, it carries waste products away for removal.

For such an important part of our body, there’s actually some very simple ways to keep it performing at its best. Here are five tips to keep you on the path to good heart health.

Plan to eat smartly – Fiber is your heart’s best friend, so you’ll want to prioritize fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.  If you’re cutting down on carbohydrates, make sure the carbs you eat are from whole grains and you’ll be doing your vascular system a big favor.  Similarly, when you cook with oil use monounsaturated fats like olive and canola oil to promote good cholesterol.

Go with the good oil – one of the best diets for good heart health is the Mediterranean diet.  Prioritizing baked fish along with high amounts of cereals, nuts, fruits and olive oil, multiple studies have shown great benefits for reducing heart disease.  Prioritize the consumption of omega-3 fatty acids through diet or supplementation to promote good heart health.

Find simple ways to be active – we give advice on getting exercise at home – check out these smart at-home exercise tips A little can go a long way towards giving you a longer, healthier lifestyle. We’re not asking a lot! Just 30 minutes of moderate activity on almost every day will do wonders for your heart. Exercise from home or take care of chores like yard work and cleaning the house to more leisurely activities like cycling and swimming. Even just taking a brisk walk will be enough!

Regulate your vices – While recent studies show no major issues with moderate consumption of alcohol, regular consumption (or even worse, heavy drinking) causes a host of problems, including high blood pressure, stroke, and cardiomyopathy (heart disease).  Smoking causes even more problems, and it’s HIGHLY recommended you find ways to quit as soon as possible.  Moderate your drinking as best as possible and look for assistance with friends and family if you want to quit smoking.

Consult your doctor – everyone’s heart is different and some of us struggle with hereditary issues like high blood pressure or arrhythmia. Stay on top of your yearly checkups to make sure your heart is running smoothly.  Your health care professional can identify any potential problems and will provide advice on how to handle them before they become serious. 

Glutathione and Omega oils are vital to heart health, overall wellness, and immune health. The benefits they provide effectively support and improve cellular functions for the better. Max’s Cellgevity™ and Max357 are just two of Max’s premium formulas and products well worth choosing to create a happier and healthier life.

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Smart Options for Nutritional Replenishment

Frozen Veggies Are Nutritious!

We’re used to cooking at home more than ever since the new normal. Nutritional replenishment is always important to consider when planning and preparing meals.  Vegetables are packed with daily nutrition needs – they’re the rainbow of foods referred to by nutritionists and many vegetables have antioxidant qualities known to effectively support the body’s antioxidant network and offer even more support to Glutathione and cells. To plan well and to save time and money, try loading up from the frozen section – but don’t make it all instant meals and pizza.  

Frozen veggies can offer similar nutrition to fresh vegetables but with a much longer “shelf” life and only a minimal drop in nutrients. Stock up on your choice vegetables to ensure that you’ll have good produce options available later in the week and need to make fewer trips — less money, time, and gas.

If you’re not sure what to do with all those frozen vegetables, try this quick and easy recipe that’s low on carbs but rich in protein, fiber and nutrients.

Try this Recipe
Fried Eggs and Veggie Mix – Serves: 2

  • frozen vegetable mix (peas, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.)
  • 3-4 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil
  •  salt
  •  pepper

Fry up a packet of your favorite frozen vegetable mix with some eggs for a quick, filling meal.

  1. Allow your frozen vegetables to thaw for about 30 minutes ahead of time.
  2. Add coconut oil to frying pan and heat on medium high heat.
  3. Add vegetables and toss in oil.
  4. Crack open eggs over pan and scramble with vegetables.
  5. Salt and pepper to taste, add other spices as desired.

If you have some older vegetables lying around, like wilted spinach or limp celery, add it to the mix.  This is great with hot sauce as well!

No access to eggs or choosing not to eat them? Substitute some soft tofu instead.  Just half a block should suffice!

Stay well and healthy!

These tips are great to remember for moments when you are thinking about an easy but healthy meal.  Look forward to more Max Wellness tips on the Live Max blog and to be shared on social media.

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How to Stay Fit From Home

Holistic Health From Home
Since the not so far off days of quarantines and social distancing, many people find themselves realizing that what all that resulted in included less opportunity for getting out for exercise and almost no chance to visit the local gym. For multitudes of exercisers – walkers, runners, cyclists, swimmers, and more – becoming a couch potato became a reality.

The fallout of such a drastic change for a lot of people affected metabolism, weight management, mental and emotional health, stress levels, and overall comprehensive health and wellness. It’s easier looking back to realize that was making life more challenging than it already was. And it has made it clear to more and more that holistic health – physical, emotional, and mental health all matter.

Try These Home Exercises
Now the restrictions are much more lenient, exercising is back on the agenda. But, think about it, anyone can exercise from home or seclusion if they know how. During winter or if quarantine becomes necessary again, there are simple exercises to do each day that don’t require expensive equipment or a lot of room.  Bookmark this page for reference and start moving even if it means staying in one place. Try these for starters:

Side Lunge

  • Stand with both feet together and hands clasped in front of your chest.
  • Take a large step out to your right, immediately lowering into a lunge by sinking your hips back and bending your right knee – make sure the knee does not pass beyond your toes. 
  • Keep your left leg straight but not locked, with both feet pointing forward.
  • Push off the right foot to straighten your right leg, then step your right foot next to left to  return to the starting position.

Wall Squats

  • Stand with your back flat against a wall.
  • Position your feet about shoulder-width apart and then about 2 feet (60 cm) out from the wall, keeping your arms at your side.
  • Slide your back down the wall, bending your legs until they’re in a 90 degree angle. Your knees should be directly above your ankles.
  • Hold the position for five seconds while contracting your abs.
  • Stand slowly, while leaning against the wall, to return to the starting position.

We recommend that you find just 20 minutes in a day where you find a spot in a room to do these exercises.  Make sure to…

  1. Warm up first with some light stretching
  2. Do 10-15 reps for each exercise
  3. Rest 15-30 seconds between the exercises 
  4. That’s 1 set, push to do at least two more sets 
  5. Rest 1-2 min. between sets

Fast, simple, and without much fuss, these exercises will help strengthen your core and stretch your muscles. The perfect remedy when you are sitting down at the computer all day, or watching it snow, or making sure you don’t feel like a couch potato!

Give Yourself Even More Support

Prioritizing your health is more important than any other thing you do. Without good health, you’re not your best feeling self. That’s not what you, your life, or your loved ones deserve.

Max supports total body and mind healthy living. Our nutritional supplements like Cellgevity™, MaxATP™ and the rest of our premium products deliver the health benefits we all are looking for and deserve, including:

  • More energy 
  • Strengthened immune system
  • Optimum cellular function 
  • Nutritional replenishment
  • Better Sleep

Look for more information, tips, and useful tricks here on the Live Max blog. Visit livemax.com for more facts and helpful info about Max’s exceptional products. Improve your life.  Live to the Max!

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Nutrients And Nutrition

Nutrition:
Foods and substances in foods that help animals and plants to grow and stay healthy. Nutrition includes behaviors and social factors related to food choices.


Nutrients:
Substances that provide the nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life. The 7 nutrients are:

  • Carbohydrates
  • Proteins
  • Fats
  • Vitamins
  • Minerals
  • Dietary fiber
  • Water

Supplement:
A substance taken to remedy the deficiencies in a person’s diet or to enhance various vitamins, antioxidants, and other molecular networks the body relies on to function.

Most of us know that eating a nutritious diet is necessary for health and development. It’s important to understand that getting enough nutrients from your food becomes more challenging as you get older. While older appetites decrease, the body’s ability to absorb nutrients decreases as well – so you’re not only eating less, you’re getting less from what you eat.

However, these days – more than ever – everyone, not just older adults, should prioritize health and wellness and maximize nutritional intake. Having a balanced, healthy eating pattern that includes fresh foods, lean proteins, unprocessed, low-sodium foods instead of the high-fat, processed, nutrient-poor fast food fallbacks many of us choose in our modern, fast-paced jobs and world is one of the steps to optimizing health.

Unlike centuries that came before ours, we live in an era influenced by science and technology. That has resulted in a multitude of supplements that can provide the nutrients we’re lacking or enhance various systems, processes, and functions related to essential nutrition. Supplements are an efficient means and another necessary step to complement what we miss in our diets.

In fact – supplements like Max’s nutritionals can provide additional support that deliver maximum benefits for better overall health and immune function. Through our highly-principled research and science, our product engineers developed groundbreaking technology we call Riboceine™. RiboCeine is the world’s most innovative and effective way to raise our body’s Glutathione levels. Glutathione is widely known as the body’s best defense against oxidative stress that causes disease and even death. Learn more here

With total focus on creating a supplement that delivers outstanding benefits, our science team created Cellgevity™. Cellgevity™ is an exceptional formula and supplement for achieving better total body and immune wellness along with some nutrients essential to balanced and better health.

Using helpful supplements like Cellgevity not only boosts your glutathione levels for a strengthened immune system, it helps provide useful nutrients for your body. It’s scientifically proven and it’s only available from Max. Stay healthy long into your life and age with Cellgevity™. It’s one of the most important ways you can choose to boost overall nutrition.