Many people think that we only worry about our blood vessels when we are old. In addition, modern people live more and more tired, eat more and more unhealthy, exercise less and less, unknowingly accelerate the aging and damage of blood vessels. Advocacy: early “maintenance” of blood vessels, better than old “treatment”. A 35-year-old vice president of a planning company, with an enviable career and salary, the price paid is to travel around, staying up late to work has become a routine, tired when you have to smoke one after another to refresh, usually also inevitably participate in a variety of meals, eating and sleeping are not a punctual. 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 fortunately, he was rescued in time to escape a life-and-death catastrophe. Now many people like this vice president, although the surface still seems to be full of energy, even the cold are less, in fact, the body’s blood vessels have been quietly aging, slowly losing elasticity, the most common consequence is the sudden onset of cardiovascular disease. Every 6.5 square centimeters of skin in the human body is distributed about 6.1 meters long blood vessels. 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, gradually leading 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, the elasticity of the blood vessel wall decreases, the flow of blood is obstructed, and eventually causes cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease due to ischemia. Self-test: how old are your blood vessels? 1, in the emotional depression, too serious; 2, addicted to eating instant noodles and cookies, snacks, prefer meat food; 3, reluctant to exercise; 4, the number of cigarettes per day multiplied by age more than 400; 5, climbing stairs chest pain; 6, cold hands and feet; 7, numbness; 8, forgetfulness, often lost; 9, blood pressure; 10, cholesterol or blood sugar increased; 11, immediate family members of someone died of coronary heart disease or Stroke. If you meet 1-4 of these items, your blood vessel age is still young. If you meet items 5-7, your blood vessels are more than 10 years older than your biological age. If you meet items 8-11, your blood vessel age will be more than 20 years older than your physiological age. Reminder: The latter two conditions suggest that you have a higher likelihood of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Vascular “natural enemies” blacklist 1, meals large fish and meat, blood vessels easily blocked. People in their thirties and forties are often socializing outside, and the dishes in restaurants are mostly concocted with “high oil, high salt, high sugar” and “thick oil and sauce”, resulting in more and more fat in the blood vessels, which can easily 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 you have a good body, two packs of cigarettes a day, will certainly give blood vessels to leave poison, so that it is vulnerable day by day.” Studies have shown that smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day increases the risk of coronary heart disease by two to three 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 ignored by everyone. If there is a problem with the cerebral vessels, the chances of heart disease are 2-3 times higher than normal, but if there is a problem with the blood vessels in the lower extremities, these chances will 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. High blood sugar not only involves the microvasculature, but also leads to macrovascular disease, and the incidence of stroke is 2-3 times higher than normal in people with high blood sugar. Bad mood hurts blood vessels. Swiss experts recently confirmed that mental stress can cause vascular intima contraction, accelerating vascular aging. “Nurture” blood vessels to do a set of exercises 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, to 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. Four more food can not be less. 1, containing more fish oil food. Fish is rich in methionine, lysine, proline and oxanthine, which can improve vascular elasticity, compliance and promote the role of sodium excretion, fish oil rich in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the function of protecting vascular endothelial cells, reducing lipid deposition and improving fibrinolysis. 2, rich in arginine food. The kidney can fill the essence, help regulate blood vessel tension, inhibit platelet aggregation, reduce vascular damage, such as sea cucumber, loach, eel and sesame, yam, ginkgo, tofu skin, sunflower seeds, etc.; eat more food rich in folic acid, dietary deficiency of folic acid and vitamin B6, B12, will make the blood cysteine levels rise, easy to damage the vascular endothelial cells, promote the formation of atherosclerotic plaque. 3.Supplementation of folic acid. It has an important role in reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease and stroke. It is recommended that middle-aged and elderly people, especially cardiovascular patients, should consume more foods rich in folic acid, such as red amaranth, spinach, lobelia, asparagus, beans, yeast and apples, citrus, etc. 4, more intake of natural anticoagulant and lipid-lowering foods. The consumption of such foods can help reduce myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. Inhibit platelet aggregation, prevent thrombosis of black fungus and pyrazine containing substances such as garlic, onions, green onions, chrysanthemum, shiitake mushrooms, lobster and strawberries, pineapple also have a certain anticoagulant effect. Tomatoes, grapes and oranges contain small amounts of salicylic acid anticoagulant substances similar to aspirin. Lipid-lowering foods include spirulina, parsley, carrots, hawthorn, nori, kelp, walnuts and olive oil and sesame oil. Exercise before meals to help 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 muscle, preventing the accumulation of cholesterol in the blood vessels, to prevent cardiovascular disease has a certain effect. Drink green tea and taste red wine. Suggestions, 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 glass of red wine every night with a large half glass (about 100-150 ml), it has antioxidant effect, drink three or four times a week, can be very good to soften the blood vessels. Vascular gymnastics done daily. The method is: every night before bed with alternating hot and cold water shower, hot water temperature of 40 ℃ – 44 ℃, cold water temperature of 12 ℃ – 16 ℃. Do “exercise” 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.