How Your Heart Gets Fat

Friday, June 05, 2009 - Byron J. Richards, CCN

Your heart, like any muscle, should not be marbled with fat.  Unfortunately, this is a common problem that can lead eventually to heart failure.  A new study explains exactly how this happens.

In normal health the primary source of fuel for your heart is fatty acids, not sugar.  As a person gains weight their heart has to work harder to pump blood, oxygen, and nutrition.  The new study shows that this increase in metabolic demand may be too much for the basic fatty acid burning system of energy production.  This results in an adverse change wherein the heart now burns sugar as a primary fuel.  Unfortunately, the side effect is that genes are turned on that cause fat accumulation in the heart itself – leading to an unhealthy heart and increasing the likelihood for eventual heart failure.

In addition to losing weight, nutrients like acetyl-l-carnitine and coenzyme Q10 are extremely helpful in assisting your heart to correctly burn fatty acids for energy production.

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