Healthy Hearts & Happy Minds

11/16/2025

Heart Failure Patient Survey ❤️ Your participation in this study can help advance scientific knowledge to better understand how pain, fear of movement, cardiac anxiety, and self-care impact the quality of life of individuals living with heart failure.

By sharing your experiences, you can help shape future healthcare approaches designed to enhance quality of life for heart failure patients, improve understanding and treatment of heart failure and contribute to better care and support for patients

Take this quick, anonymous survey to help researchers understand how pain, anxiety, and self-care impact quality of life for heart patients.

Your response will help an academic study that seeks to understand how to provide better care. The survey will be featured in leading academic journals.

💬 Every response brings us closer to better treatments & support and can help shape the future of heart care.

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https://telavivmedicine.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Ld2F72NUvo425U?

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

11/14/2025

Heart conditions are often treated with a combination of medications and lifestyle changes. In more severe cases in which these therapies fail, surgery offers a way to improve your cardiovascular health.

Depending on the condition and severity of your case, there are different surgery options available. In this article, we’ll look at seven common types of heart surgery.
https://www.myheartdiseaseteam.com/resources/surgery-and-heart-disease?

Heart conditions are often treated with a combination of medications and lifestyle changes. In more severe cases in which these therapies fail, surgery of

11/12/2025

Rewire Your Thoughts. Reclaim Your Life.

After a cardiac event, your mind can become your biggest obstacle. This course teaches you how to challenge negative self-talk, rewrite limiting beliefs, and build a mindset that supports healing. With tools from positive psychology and coaching, 8 Days 2 Feel Good Now helps you feel empowered, not afraid.

Change Your Inner Dialogue. Feel Strong Again.

Whether it was a heart attack, heart surgery, or cardiac arrest, you made it through. But now you're left with the "after." This self-directed course will support you through the fear, the uncertainty, the feeling that your old life is gone forever. You can not only get your old life back, but build...

11/10/2025

Scientists say a cutting-edge gene-editing treatment could help people cut harmful high cholesterol levels in half, just after one treatment.

The single dose treatment helped patients lower “bad” cholesterol and triglyerides, both linked to heart disease

11/07/2025

Dear Team Hearty: We’re in This Together

Whether you’re prepping for surgery or just starting to recover, this isn’t just a book — it’s a companion. Packed with therapeutic puzzles, uplifting quotes, and simple wellness rituals, the Cognitive Cardio Puzzle Book helps guide you through uncertain times. Welcome to a healing space where every word search brings reassurance, and every answer is a step forward.

Start Healing with Heart. Order Your Copy Today.

Are you facing heart surgery or recovering from a heart attack or open-heart surgery? If so, you'll know that it can be a long and slow process. But there are things you can do to make the time go by more quickly and to help you recover better. Pass the time and stimulate your cognitive function...

11/05/2025

In a new study published in Nature Regenerative Medicine titled, “Cyclin A2 induces cytokinesis in human adult cardiomyocytes and drives reprogramming in mice,” researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have shown that the gene for Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can promote cardiac repair in adult human cardiomyocytes, providing a new avenue to treat heart injury and failure as an alternative to heart transplants or implanted cardiac devices.

The Cyclin A2 gene (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can promote cardiac repair in adult human cardiomyocytes.

11/02/2025

Navigate Your Heart Recovery with Confidence.

The journey after a cardiac event can feel overwhelming. "Beyond the Beat" is your essential compass, providing the emotional resilience and practical steps you need for both pre- and post-heart surgery or heart attack. With personal insights and shared stories, Sallie Crawley empowers you to embrace your 'new normal' with acceptance, energy, hope, and direction.

Get Your Guide to Emotional Resilience Now!

Are you facing an upcoming heart surgery, recovering from a recent heart attack/surgery or cardiac arrest, or managing a heart disease diagnosis? You're not alone, and the path forward can feel overwhelming. But you can thrive through this experience. goes beyond medical jargon and your physi...

10/29/2025

Today at 4pm CA Mountain (10pm UK) is the deadline for this cohort in the Sweet Spot Kitchen (SSK), whether you want to do the live Behaviour Change course and work on more sustainable habits, or boost your confidence around heart-healthy eating in general, with the (self-directed) Knowledge, Meal Planning, or Recipes/Ideas courses.

Click to learn more and join https://sweetspotnutrition.ca/join-us-in-the-sweet-spot-kitchen/

We'll start at 5pm with the first workshop in the series, "Why Is It So Hard To Change Our Eating Habits?" Late joiners welcome. (I'm kind of a last-minute person myself.)

After today, I'll be back to my regular tips and blog posts, and the SSK community will be closed to new members until the new year.
All the best,
- Cheryl Sweet Spot Nutrition

Let’s Make Food Fun Again Food shouldn’t feel like a struggle every day! It should be satisfying, nourishing, and like it fits seamlessly into your life. My Sweet Spot Kitchen program is meant to help reignite your love of food – and like a good recipe, we take a step by step approach: Knowled...

10/29/2025

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10/29/2025

https://www.health.com/atorvastatin-calcium-recall-october-2025

The FDA announced a nationwide recall of Atorvastatin Calcium tablets, a statin used to lower cholesterol, due to potential efficacy issues. Here's what to know.

10/28/2025

Your Roadmap to Recovery: Beyond the Medical Jargon.

Overwhelmed by information and unsure how to implement lifestyle changes after a heart diagnosis? "The Beat Goes On" cuts through the confusion, providing clear, practical guidance. Sallie Crawley shares invaluable tips, techniques, and interactive journals to help you understand medications, communicate with your medical team, improve sleep, manage anxiety, and reduce risk factors. This book gives you 'the how' to navigate your recovery journey with clarity and confidence.

Gain Clarity & Confidence. Order Your Copy!

Previously published as The Basics of Heart Health Management at Home by Sallie Crawley You’ve likely been physically mended and discharged from the hospital, you may still be going through treatment and you are probably overwhelmed by all the lifestyle changes you’ve been told to make to re...