Capacity is not talked about often enough when it comes to heart health, and today on UPLEVEL, Dr. Jenna is diving deep into what your body can actually sustain and how to protect the female heart in real life. Tuning in, you’ll hear all about why your heart doesn’t need you to be calm all the time, it just needs you to recover well, why emotional labor is physical labor, and why the heart isn’t only a pump, it is also a metabolic organ that demands large amounts of energy. Dr. Jenna goes on to explain why chronic self-control is a stressor and shares some examples of that before discussing why patterns over time are what define your heart health. Dr. Jenna challenges us to ask ourselves what support we can give our bodies to lower cardiovascular load. Finally, Dr. Jenna reminds us that heart health isn’t about perfection and encourages us to examine our self-talk. Thanks for listening!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Today’s topic: how to actually protect your heart.
• Why your heart cares more about variability than perfection.
• The importance of being able to recover from stress.
• Why emotional labor has the same effect as physical labor.
• Seeing the heart as a metabolic organ, not just a pump.
• Why chronic self-control is actually a stressor.
• Dr. Jenna briefly shares her opinion on GLP-1s.
• What truly defines your heart health.
• A challenge: lower your cardiovascular load.
• The power of self-talk in heart health.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

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