Arteriosclerosis is a problem faced by many friends, especially the majority of middle-aged and elderly friends, with the growth of age, under the influence of chronic diseases such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and related adverse life factors, there will be more or less atherosclerosis risks and problems, and some friends do not pay attention to the control of various risk factors for a long time, and even carotid artery plaque, coronary artery stenosis and other clear problems, for the blood vessels that have hardened and narrowed, many friends always hope to be able to make hardened blood vessels "re-soften", But this has also spawned a lot of various misunderstandings and rumors, a lot of statements about this and that can "soften the blood vessels" in an endless stream, but in the end some of these statements and practices, is it really reliable? In today's popular science article, let's introduce 4 common misunderstandings about softening blood vessels.
These common methods of softening blood vessels are actually unreliable
Regarding the various methods of "softening blood vessels", it can be said that there are various kinds, some are taken for granted, and some are exaggerated propaganda driven by certain economic interests.
1, eat a certain food can soften the blood vessels
This kind of rumor is particularly popular in the folk, because if you eat more food, you can make the aging hardened blood vessels soften, of course, it is the best. So about drinking vinegar can soften blood vessels, eating onions can soften blood vessels, eating broccoli can soften blood vessels, etc. Has begun to prevail, some friends will treat it as a magic recipe for "dietary therapy", long-term persistence, hoping to be able to soften blood vessels by eating more food, but this practice actually does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Whether it is drinking vinegar, or eating onions, garlic, broccoli, these condiments or foods, reasonable consumption, are relatively healthy ingredients, but the hardening of blood vessels is narrow, and the accumulation of lipids in the blood, the long-term chronic inflammatory reaction of the vascular endothelium, and the elastic changes of the blood vessels themselves, these foods can neither eliminate the accumulation of lipids, nor can they have the effect of eliminating inflammation efficiently, and it is impossible to prevent the aging of the blood vessels themselves, so it is difficult to soften the blood vessels by eating more food.
2. Drink alcohol to soften blood vessels
Drinking alcohol can soothe the muscles and activate the blood, softening the blood vessels is also popular, and there is also a saying that drinking a glass of red wine every night before going to bed can help soften the blood vessels. But in fact, regardless of red wine or white wine, no matter what so-called "antioxidant ingredients" are contained in the wine, the most important ingredient in the wine is still water and alcohol, and the intake of alcohol is a hazard factor for vascular health, and if it is a long-term large amount of alcohol, it will also accelerate atherosclerosis and increase the risk of heart disease, therefore, through drinking not only can not soften the blood vessels, but may bring certain health hazards, especially the original do not drink, alcohol intolerant people, if you listen to such a statement, And when you start drinking, it's even more than worth the loss.
3. Eat antioxidant health products to soften blood vessels
In many health care products publicity, the "antioxidant and anti-aging" role of health care products is very magical, and even claims to be able to play a role in softening blood vessels, but in fact, various health care products, vitamin supplements, for the lack of related nutrition in the body, and through food supplements and can not be fully ingested friends, eat a little, is able to play a certain "health care" role, but if you say that eating more vitamin supplements or health care products, you can "soften blood vessels", it is really an exaggeration, vitamin C, Vitamin E and other vitamin supplements and some antioxidant products such as resveratrol, its antioxidant effect is not enough to reverse the aging hardening of blood vessels, nor can it achieve the effect of softening blood vessels.
If in order to "soften the blood vessels", and take some antioxidant supplements in large doses, excessive supplementation will bring risks, such as excessive vitamin C supplementation, which will increase the risk of uric acid, the risk of kidney stones, vitamin E overdose supplementation, will increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, etc., are worth noting.
4. Regular infusion to soften blood vessels
Many elderly friends believe that regular infusion can clean up vascular garbage and soften blood vessels, but in fact, if there is no related disease, simply by infusing normal saline or glucose injection, or adding some "through the blood vessel" drug for infusion, it can not clean up the vascular garbage, nor can it soften the blood vessels, but may bring health risks.
The body's blood vessels appear aging, plaque and other issues, is not what garbage accumulation caused, this problem is more unlikely to rely on infusion to "garbage washed away", infusion is a invasive medical behavior, the need to implement a strict sterile operation process, if the operation is not standardized, but may bring a certain risk of infection or pyrogen invasion, therefore, regular infusion is impossible to play a role in softening blood vessels, the elderly in the case of non-medical necessity, there is no need to regularly infuse through the blood vessels.
To protect the health of blood vessels, you may wish to do these 5 points
The above-mentioned misunderstandings, so that many people in the protection of vascular health, have gone astray, or taken a lot of detours, in fact, for the problem of arteriosclerosis narrowing, we should do more through a variety of ways of intervention conditioning, delay the process of aging and hardening, in addition, we must also pay attention to the prevention of various risks, try to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the elderly, want to do these 2 aspects, the following points are worth our attention.
1, healthy and reasonable diet: although eating more than one kind of food can not soften blood vessels, but if you can scientifically and reasonably match a good diet, pay attention to low salt, low fat and low sugar, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and other healthy ingredients, pay attention to diet diversity and nutritional balance supplementation, for the protection of vascular health is very important, it is worth our attention.
2, strengthen exercise: exercise for the benefits of vascular health is multifaceted, under the premise of physical conditions permitting, more strengthen exercise, and do a good job of long-term adherence, can help improve the body's metabolic function, improve weight excess, enhance cardiopulmonary capacity, promote blood circulation, protect blood vessel health.
3, active control of the three highs: hypertension, high blood lipids, diabetes these three high problems, is an important risk of accelerating the aging of blood vessels chronic diseases, if you can as soon as possible and stably control the body of these chronic diseases, for the protection of blood vessels, delay the process of arteriosclerosis, are the foundation and focus.
4, maintain a good attitude: psychological effects on the health of blood vessels is easy for many friends to ignore, but the impact of long-term anxiety, depression and other emotions, for blood pressure, the impact of the body's metabolic capacity is not to be ignored, therefore, if you want to protect the health of blood vessels, it is also important to maintain a positive and optimistic attitude.
5, rational drug prevention and improvement: in addition to actively controlling the drug treatment that may be required for the three highs, for the health risks caused by arteriosclerosis, it should also be combined with the actual situation to prevent relevant cardiovascular risks, such as taking statin drugs, which can help stabilize plaque, some patients with existing cardiovascular diseases, taking aspirin, can help reduce the risk of thrombosis, etc. These preventive drugs should also be combined with risk assessment and used rationally under the premise of ensuring the safety of medication.
All in all, if we want to protect the health of blood vessels, we should polish our eyes, learn to distinguish what is the real scientific method, what is the unreliable rumor, blood vessels can not "rejuvenate", but can do "delay aging", actively practice a healthy lifestyle, while reasonably controlling related chronic diseases and risk factors, in order to better protect blood vessel health, delay the aging of blood vessels.