Heart Health from the Inside Out: Why Caring for Your Cells Is the Ultimate Self-Love
Happy Valentine’s / Galentine’s Day 🤍
Whether you’re celebrating love with someone else, your friends, or simply yourself today — I hope you take a moment for real self-care. Do something that makes you smile. Slow down. Breathe. Move your body. Nourish it. You deserve that every single day… but today is a beautiful reminder to prioritize you.
Since February is Heart Health Month, this feels like the perfect moment to connect love, self-care, and what’s happening beneath the surface in our bodies — especially when it comes to our hearts.
You’ll see the American Heart Association image above — a simple reminder that caring for our hearts matters. Nutrition, movement, and protein are important pieces of that picture. But I want to zoom out for a moment and look at something most people don’t think about: the cellular environment inside our blood vessels and heart.
I talk a lot about oxidative stress, and I know some of you may still wonder what that really means. Truthfully — I didn’t fully understand it either until I lived through my own health journey.
Here’s the simplest way I can explain it.
Imagine an old truck sitting out in a field. Over time, it starts to rust. That rust doesn’t appear overnight — it builds slowly from exposure, stress, wear and tear, and time.
Oxidative stress is like that “rust,” but happening inside your body at the cellular level. It comes from things we all experience:
Stress
Poor sleep
Inflammation
Processed foods and environmental toxins
Too much or too little movement
And yes… aging itself
Over time, that “cellular rust” accumulates — and the body begins to struggle in ways we don’t always connect back to the root cause. That’s why I’m so passionate about supporting the body from the inside out, rather than waiting for problems to appear.
❤️ Heart Health — How NRF2 Can Benefit Your Heart
When people think about heart health, they usually think about cholesterol, blood pressure, or diet. Those are important — but there’s something happening deeper that often gets overlooked: oxidative stress and inflammation inside your blood vessels.
This is where NRF2 activation comes in.
NRF2 is a cellular pathway that helps your body activate its own antioxidant and repair systems. Here’s why that matters for your heart:
1 ❤️ It reduces oxidative stress in the blood and vessels.
Oxidative stress damages blood vessels, thickens blood and increases inflammation.
NRF2 activates the body’s antioxidant systems (including glutathione), helping protect the heart and vascular lining from ongoing damage.
2 ❤️ It calms inflammation that drives clotting.
Chronic inflammation tells the liver to produce more fibrin and clotting proteins.
NRF2 helps down-regulate inflammatory signaling so the body is less likely to over-activate clotting pathways.
3 ❤️ It supports healthy endothelial function.
The endothelium (the lining of your blood vessels) controls blood flow and oxygen delivery.
NRF2 protects and supports this delicate lining, helping blood move more freely and efficiently.
4 ❤️ It supports liver detox.
Your liver regulates clotting proteins, cholesterol processing, and toxin clearance.
NRF2 supports Phase I & II detox pathways, reducing toxic load and supporting cleaner, healthier blood.
5 ❤️ It helps prevent problems instead of chasing them.
NRF2 doesn’t thin the blood or break down clots.
Instead, it helps create an internal environment where excess inflammation, oxidative stress, and fibrin are less likely to form in the first place.
This is why NRF2 is considered a foundational, long-term strategy for heart and circulatory health 💪🏼❤️🙌🏼
That’s the power of activating the body’s own repair systems.
In this video, my dear friend shares her experience supporting her health — and her animals’ health — with cellular activation. What’s especially meaningful is that animals don’t experience a placebo effect, so their outcomes give us real biological insight into what’s happening at the cellular level.
My intention in sharing this
My intention isn’t to convince — it’s to educate.
To help you understand oxidative stress, heart health, and why supporting your cells matters before there’s a crisis.
If you’re curious to learn more about caring for your heart from the inside out, I’m always happy to have that conversation from a place of care, clarity, and support. 🤍