"Can vinegar and red wine really soften blood vessels?"
arteriosclerosis
Today, when Uncle Zhang was browsing the web, he saw some articles written by the "brick family" claiming to be able to soften blood vessels, and he was half-convinced of this, so he issued the question at the beginning.
I have to say that now everyone pays more and more attention to health care, but the information on the Internet is uneven, and those who claim that vinegar and red wine can soften blood vessels are basically not very credible. In order to let everyone know the facts, the doctor kindly said to you today to talk about this matter!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1. Why do blood vessels "harden"? </h1>
Vascular "sclerosis" is actually a non-professional understanding of a term, in the clinic, it is called atherosclerosis. We all know that after people reach a certain age, they will gradually age, and this aging is not only external, but also some internal aging that is not easy to find.
To some extent, the "hardening" of blood vessels is a manifestation of vascular aging. Human blood vessels and water pipes are somewhat similar, and they all have a certain service life. Friends with a little common sense in life are estimated to know that the aging of water pipes is mainly manifested as an increase in brittleness and there will be scale attached inside. Vascular aging is mainly manifested by a decrease in elasticity, and there will also be "scale" inside, but this "scale" is atherosclerotic plaque.
When "scale" grows inside a blood vessel, the inner wall of the vessel becomes narrow. In the early stages, the blood vessels are narrowed so that the patient may have few symptoms. However, when the blood vessels are narrowed to a certain extent, it will affect blood circulation, causing ischemia and hypoxia, from causing a series of symptoms.
Atherosclerosis occurs in the cerebral arteries and can cause cerebral infarction or brain atrophy; when it occurs in the renal arteries, it can cause hypertension or renal atrophy; when it occurs in the lower extremity arteries, it can cause intermittent claudication.
The "scale" of the inner wall of the blood vessel can not have the scale stones on the inner wall of the water pipe, when people are emotionally agitated, high-fat diet, blood pressure is suddenly high and low, overeating, etc., these plaques will fall off, increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.
Take coronary heart disease, for example, which is mainly due to atherosclerotic arteries in the heart. The coronary artery is a blood vessel that mainly supplies blood to the heart, and when it undergoes atheroscleroticization, it can cause narrowing of the coronary arteries, which in turn can cause ischemia and hypoxia in the heart. As the saying goes, if you don't understand it, it hurts, so patients with coronary heart disease will have chest pain, chest tightness and other symptoms.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2. Some of the methods circulating on the Internet that can "soften" blood vessels are mostly not credible, don't be fooled anymore:</h1>
As mentioned above, the "hardening" of blood vessels is to some extent a manifestation of angiogenesis and aging, and aging itself is irreversible, which is like life, old age, illness and death, which are the outcomes that cannot be changed by manpower, so arterial "hardening" is also difficult to reverse.
There are many methods of "softening" blood vessels on the Internet, including drinking vinegar, drinking red wine, eating fungus, eating vegetables and fruits, etc., many people have also tried these methods, but they have not achieved satisfactory results, and these methods are fundamentally unreliable. ##长城心血管健康周 #
vinegar
Many people think that vinegar can dissolve calcium, and the surface of arteriosclerosis contains calcium, and after the calcium of the inner wall of the "hardened" blood vessel is dissolved, the blood vessel naturally becomes "soft". However, the idea is very beautiful, the reality is very bone, because vinegar is metabolized after entering the human body, it is difficult to enter the blood vessels, since it can not enter the blood vessels, how to soften? We have a lot of hydrochloric acid in our stomach itself, and the acidity of these hydrochloric acids is very high, but even so, we have not seen these stomach acids "soften" blood vessels? Therefore, the rumor that drinking vinegar can "soften" blood vessels is naturally self-defeating.
red wine
There are still many people who think that drinking some red wine can soften blood vessels, but in fact, this view is not very reliable. According to the authoritative medical journal The Lancet, drinking alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, and every sip of alcohol drunk is harmful to the body. There are some views on the Internet that red wine contains resveratrol, and resveratrol has the effect of lowering blood lipids, protecting blood vessels, antioxidants, etc., but it should be noted that these conclusions are drawn in animals and in vitro experiments, and there is no strong evidence that drinking red wine can protect blood vessels! Besides, although red wine contains resveratrol, the content is very low, even if resveratrol is really good for blood vessels, it is not very realistic to drink red wine to "soften" blood vessels. #健康明星计划 #
The fungus circulating on the Internet to "soften" the blood vessels is also unreliable! Someone has done a study before, and found that after feeding animals with fungus polysaccharides for a period of time, the cholesterol and triglycerides in the animals decreased significantly, and the cardiovascular disease of animals also improved to a certain extent. Then it is worth mentioning that the fungus contains less fungus polysaccharides, and if you want to "soften" the blood vessels by eating the fungus, then you have to eat a lot of fungus, which is obviously unrealistic.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3. To slow down the aging of blood vessels, we need to pay attention to some details of life:</h1>
As the saying goes, "the people take food as the sky", this sentence clearly writes the importance of diet, if we can pay attention to diet, then on the road to delay the aging of blood vessels, you have been half successful. We should usually pay attention to a light diet, try to choose vegetable oil, the daily intake of oil should be controlled within 25 to 30g, the intake of salt is controlled within 6g. The intake of vegetables and fruits can be appropriately increased to ensure that a sufficient amount of boiled water is drunk every day.
At the same time, it is more important to pay attention to controlling your chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and so on. These diseases themselves can damage blood vessels and accelerate the aging of blood vessels. Usually pay attention to insisting on taking medication, regularly monitor blood pressure, blood sugar, blood lipids, to ensure that it meets the standards.
In addition, in order to delay the aging of blood vessels, it is important to keep exercising. Regular exercise can enhance the function of blood vessels, but also can eliminate bad emotions, relieve stress, and promote the excretion of metabolic waste when sweating. Exercise needs to be insisted on, otherwise three days of fishing and two days of drying nets will definitely not have a good effect. Specifically choose what exercise, to combine their own physical conditions, choose a suitable for their own, easy to adhere to the exercise mode.
The most important point is to remove the factors that accelerate the aging of blood vessels, such as staying up late, smoking, drinking, obesity, bad mood, etc.
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