Many people think that only when we get old do we have to worry about our blood vessels. Unbeknownst to us, the enlargement of blood vessel plaque accelerates from the age of 30 onwards, plus modern people live more and more tired, eat more and more unhealthy, and exercise less and less, unknowingly accelerating the aging and damage of blood vessels. How old are your blood vessels? Come and take a test! Myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, these cardiovascular diseases mainly caused by atherosclerosis, in recent years for young people, more and more unfamiliar. One of the famous cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment centers in China, Beijing Anzhen Hospital had spent 10 years to do a survey among 700,000 people and found that the incidence of cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage had increased by 136% and 220% respectively among 35-year-old men and women in 10 years. In the clinic, at least 2-3 people under 45 years of age are admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital every week for acute attacks of heart attack or stroke, and the youngest person who died suddenly of coronary heart disease was only 33 years old. In the United States, 47% of deaths among men between the ages of 35 and 50 were caused by acute myocardial infarction; in Korea, 1/3 of the nationals over the age of 30 belong to the “cardiovascular disease risk group”. Therefore, after the age of 30, we should learn to take care of our blood vessels, just like we take care of our appearance and skin. How old are your blood vessels? Qi Hao, 35, is the vice president of a planning company and has an enviable career and salary, but the price he pays is that he often has to travel around the world, staying up late to work has become a routine, and he has to smoke one after another to refresh himself, and he usually has to attend various dinner parties, and there is no punctuality in eating and sleeping. Because of his youth, plus the annual routine physical examination did not detect the problem, so usually some occasional chest tightness, weakness, he did not take it seriously. Recently, the weather suddenly turned cold, and one morning when he woke up, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest and fell to the ground unconscious. After arriving at the hospital, he was diagnosed with an acute heart attack, and thanks to timely resuscitation, Qi Hao escaped a life-and-death catastrophe. “Nowadays, many young people like Qi Hao, although the surface still looks energetic and rarely even get a cold, in fact, the blood vessels in the body have been quietly aging and slowly losing elasticity, the most common consequence of which is the sudden onset of cardiovascular disease.” He has to do a lot of vascular examinations every day when he goes to the clinic. The human body has about 6.1 meters of blood vessels distributed on every 6.5 square centimeters of skin. Good blood vessels are particularly comfortable to look at: arterial blood vessels are energetic, with large caliber, smooth and soft walls, good elasticity, and the strongest ability to transport blood. But some people’s blood vessels can not help but make people sweat, just like the water pipes at home, with a long time, the inner wall of the pipe to scale, rust, and gradually lead to pipeline obstruction and can not supply water. The “scale” in the blood refers to cholesterol, triglycerides, etc. They accumulate on the walls of the blood vessels, forming plaques like yellow millet porridge, over time, so that the elasticity of the blood vessel wall is reduced, blood flow is blocked, and eventually caused by ischemia and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. A study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Medicine has pointed out that modern people live in good conditions, obesity has become a common problem, but you have not thought about it, even if childhood slightly obese, the fat accumulated in the blood vessels is enough to make you in one or two decades, that is, about 30 years old to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Vascular age self-assessment There is a “vascular age self-assessment question” abroad: in emotional depression, too serious, addicted to eating instant noodles and cookies, snacks, prefer meat, reluctant to exercise, the number of cigarettes per day multiplied by age more than 400, chest pain when climbing stairs, cold hands and feet, a sense of numbness, forgetfulness, often lose things, blood pressure is elevated. If you meet 1-4 of the 12 items, your blood vessel age is still young; if you meet 5-7 items, your blood vessel age is more than 10 years older than your physiological age; if you meet 8-12 items, your blood vessel age is 20 years older than your physiological age. age will be more than 20 years older than the physiological age. The latter two conditions suggest that you are more likely to suffer from diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and it is time to adjust your lifestyle. Vascular “natural enemies” blacklist As with other organs such as the heart, blood vessels also have a number of “natural enemies”, the following should be tied at the top of the blacklist: 1, meals large fish and meat, blood vessels easily blocked. People in their thirties and forties often socialize outside, restaurants with more dishes “high oil, high salt, high sugar” and “thick oil and sauce” concoction out, resulting in more and more fat in the blood vessels, easy to block the blood vessels. 2, day and night reversal, disrupting the biological clock of blood vessels. Most people over the age of thirty are the mainstay of the unit, and inevitably become the “late night people”. From a health perspective, 11 p.m. to 4 or 5 a.m., is the time to ensure that the liver metabolizes blood flow. When you stay up late, not only yourself, the cardiovascular biological clock will also be disrupted, resulting in excessive secretion of adrenaline and norepinephrine in the body, so that blood vessels constrict, blood flow is slow and viscosity increases. Long-term “black and white” people, the risk of heart disease will be doubled than normal people. 3, two packs of cigarettes a day, blood vessels are prone to “poisoning”. “Smoking is one of the culprits that lead to blood vessel failure, even if your body is good, two packs of cigarettes a day, it will certainly give blood vessels to leave poison, so that it is vulnerable day by day.” Zhang Jiwei, director of vascular surgery at Renji Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, said that more than 50 years of research by American scientists showed that smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day increases the risk of coronary heart disease by 2-3 times. There are also studies found that smoking while staying up late will make the viscosity of the blood more than 8 times higher than normal. 4, less exercise, more vascular waste. Lower extremity blood vessels are also important, but often overlooked by everyone. Professor Fu Weiguo, deputy director of the Institute of Vascular Surgery at Fudan University, said that if there are problems with the cerebral vessels, the chances of heart disease are 2-3 times higher than normal, but if there are problems with the blood vessels in the lower limbs, the chances become 4 times higher. Normal people have about 600 capillaries per square millimeter of skin, usually only 100-200 capillaries open, more exercise can make more capillaries open, promote blood microcirculation; and long-term non-exercise, the garbage in the blood vessels will gradually accumulate, the formation of atherosclerotic plaque “untimely bomb “, will also affect the capillary blood supply, and may be detonated at any time. 5, hypertension, diabetes dragging the cardiovascular. No symptoms or uncontrolled hypertension, is the trigger for many vascular disease. Patients with hypertension are 4-7 times more likely to have a brain infarction than normal people. And high blood sugar not only involves microvascular, but also lead to macrovascular disease, high blood sugar, the incidence of stroke is 2-3 times higher than normal people. 6, bad mood hurt blood vessels. Swiss experts recently confirmed that mental stress can cause vascular intima contraction, accelerating vascular aging. Do a set of exercises for the blood vessels People often say, “blood vessels young people do not age,” but people over thirty, it is difficult to have the time and energy to properly maintain their blood vessels. In this regard, experts teach you some daily tips to protect blood vessels. Eat some blood vessels “scavenger”. Hawthorn, oats, black fungus, kumquats, eggplant, sweet potatoes, garlic, onions, these eight foods can unclog the blood vessels, and maintain the elasticity of the blood vessel wall. Vinegar can also soften blood vessels and lower blood lipids. Xu Chengbin’s secret is to eat less dry rice every night, boil some thin rice with millet and yellow rice, then add a few goji berries and dates, the most protective of blood vessels. Do a set of exercises for the blood vessels. Ma Yinchu lived to 100 years old, and he did “vascular gymnastics” every day. The method is: every night before bed with hot and cold water alternating shower, hot water temperature of 40 ℃ – 44 ℃, cold water temperature of 12 ℃ – 16 ℃. Do “gymnastics” first cold and then hot, alternating 5-10 times, each lasting 2-3 minutes, and finally end with a hot water bath. This vascular gymnastics can promote blood circulation, timely “flush away” the garbage in the blood vessels. In addition, walking briskly is also a good cardiovascular exercise, can enhance muscle endurance and enhance the elasticity of blood vessels. Exercise before meals, to help the blood vessels in age. Overseas, research shows that daily exercise for half an hour, such as walking, cycling, swimming, playing gateball, playing table tennis, jogging, swimming, climbing or hiking, can play a role in weight loss and fat loss, improve the degree of vascular “rejuvenation” to prevent aging. If you exercise moderately before meals, the effect of blood vessel protection is even better. Two pieces of dark chocolate per week. Dark chocolate contains natural antioxidants flavonoids, which can prevent blood vessels from hardening, while increasing the vitality of the heart muscle, relaxing the muscles, preventing the accumulation of cholesterol in the blood vessels, to prevent cardiovascular disease has a certain effect. Drink green tea and taste red wine. At home or outside the entertainment may wish to drink some green tea, because the catechol can reduce the amount of bad cholesterol in the blood, increase the amount of good cholesterol, increase vascular flexibility, elasticity, prevention of vascular sclerosis. Or drink a large half glass (about 100-150 ml) of red wine every night with a glass, it has an antioxidant effect, drink four or five times a week, can be very good at softening blood vessels.