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May is National Stroke Awareness Month , and to help bring that awareness to everyone, you can download my latest book, Optimize Your Heart, for FREE!

Three years ago, I experienced a massive stroke and a heart attack that came much too early in life. At least that’s what I thought. After my miraculous recovery, I went on a mission to learn as much as possible to help others lower their risk for heart disease and stroke. After volunteering my time, lots of research, and interviews with some of t...

✨✨ Today only, my latest book is FREE! ✨✨

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Optimize Your Heart was a departure from my previous two books, but with good reason. After suffering a massive stroke 🧠 and heart attack 🫀, I realized my efforts to reverse heart disease had come a little too late.

Optimize Your Heart is a quick, simple, but IMPORTANT read for anyone who wants to improve their heart health. And don't worry, it does not guilt you into eating salads, running marathons, or quitting desserts! 😌

Also, did I mention for TODAY only, it's FREE?

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The American Heart Association is using National Nutrition Month to help spread the word about the important role your diet plays in reducing your risk for a heart attack or stroke. In my new book, Optimize Your Heart, I spend a fair amount of time explaining caloric intake, macronutrients, micronutrients, fiber, water, etc, etc. I even point to the DASH diet as a great guide for anyone who needs structure and discipline in their diet. That said, even just a small change can be all you need to s...

To celebrate #HeartMonth and raise awareness for heart disease, Optimize Your Heart: A practical guide to lowering your risk of a heart attack or stroke will be free to download until Feb 6th.

Listen to a sample now: https://andybeal.fitness/optimize-you...

I’m excited to share the news that Optimize Your Heart is now available as an audiobook on both Amazon and Audible!

Jason Felisbret narrator

While I contemplated narrating it myself, I realized that listeners would pay more attention to my Anglo-Southern accent than my advice for preventing a heart attack or stroke. Instead, I worked with the excellent Jason Felisbret–a professional book narrator, voiceover artist, and Air Force veteran–whose authoritative and soothing voice will entice you to l...

Prior to my heart attack and stroke, I always believed that the number one killer of women was cancer. While I continue to support groups such as Earlier.org, the American Heart Association has made me keenly aware that cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of women, claiming the lives of one in three women. In fact,

CVD kills one woman about every 80 seconds.CVD is the leading cause of all maternal death.About four million stroke survivors alive today are women.More younger ...

One of my strongest motivations for writing Optimize Your Heart was to remind everyone that you are never too young to start thinking about your heart health. In fact, sometimes the warning signs can come so early that they can easily be dismissed because, well, you’re too young for it to be anything serious, right?

Dean S. was in excellent shape (a former competitive swimmer in college) yet started having warning signs at the age of 30. He recently bought my book and shared his personal story w...

As they prepped me for surgery, I watched the frenzy going on around me. I saw the anguish in my wife’s eyes but was not sure why. My brain could not comprehend even the simplest of questions asked of me during my evaluation, yet right before I was given the anesthetic that would send me into what could have been my final sleep, a sense of clarity and peace washed over me. I prayed to God that I trusted that my life was in His hands and if my time was up, then I look forward to being in His pres...

With 2020 in the rearview mirror you may think that you are going to be unstoppable in 2021 and have new year’s resolutions in mind that, as of right now, you feel nothing is going to get in the way of you achieving!

Then, you wake up on January 1st and realize that it’s pretty much just like any other day. The calendar has changed but daily life goes on–and often gets in the way of that mega resolution you set to lose 50lbs, run a marathon, or squeeze back into the jeans you wore in college.

I’...