Common Vitamin Boosts Heart Health by 290% (and beats death)

One of the most important things recommended for heart health is exercise.

But what should you do when you just feel exhausted after walking up a few steps?

How could you possibly make it in the gym?

According to a new study from the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, it is actually the lack of one common vitamin—rather than a lack of exercise—that is preventing us from getting into shape.

In addition, if you load up on this cheap (sometimes free) vitamin, you’re 400% less likely to die early, as compared to when you lack it.

Cardiorespiratory fitness is easily measurable. It is the amount of oxygen your heart and lungs can provide, and the amount that your body can use, during intense exercise.

The more oxygen you have, the harder and longer you can exercise without feeling drop-dead tired.

Researchers in this new study measured the cardiorespiratory fitness levels and Vitamin D levels found in the blood of 1,995 American participants; this information was originally collected by the National Health and Nutrition Survey between 2001 and 2004.

They categorized them into groups based on the amount of Vitamin D found in the blood.

When they accounted for other factors that can influence this relationship (such as age, race, gender, body mass index, blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, inflammation, red blood cell count, and kidney function) they found that people with the highest Vitamin D levels had cardiorespiratory fitness that was 2.9 times higher than those with the lowest levels.

Thus, it would be ideal to make sure that you get enough sunlight and Vitamin D-enriched food in your diet to improve your fitness levels.

In fact, in the same month, the journal JAMA Network Open published a study showing that people with the highest cardiorespiratory fitness were 400% less likely to die early, as compared to people with the lowest fitness.

So yes, exercise does matter! And strangely enough, Vitamin D makes it easier to exercise.

However, another ingredient is even more crucial for removing cholesterol plaque buildup in your heart. Cut out this one ingredient to gain complete heart health in 30 days or less…