Blood vessels also have "age". How old are your blood vessels?

"ugly, live long." Fat and prosperous days. ?

This is the most brainwashing song I have seen recently! But for medical science practitioners, they will never be fooled by these songs.

In fact, the medical community generally believes that the health of blood vessels is a reflection of human health to a certain extent. More serious may be related to people's life span. Some experts have put forward the view that "blood vessels share the same life with people".

In recent years, with the improvement of living conditions, many people have a great negative impact on blood vessels because of their bad lifestyles and eating habits. Even some young people in their twenties and thirties have a "vascular age" of forty or fifty. By the time such people reach their 40 s and 50 s, their blood vessels are already riddled with holes. How can they talk about health and longevity?

Experts pointed out that once the aging and damage of blood vessels are older than the actual age, some diseases will come ahead of time.

Now the physical examination instruments are very advanced, and many physical examination institutions can help to detect the health status of blood vessels, including vascular elasticity, vascular calcification and so on.

Of course, there are a series of common cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, coronary heart disease, cerebral hemorrhage and so on. Physical examination of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases can also reflect the aging degree of blood vessels.

1, tetralipidemia

The range of normal blood lipid standard is:

The serum total cholesterol was 2.9 ~ 5.65438 0.7 mmol/L;

Serum triglyceride 0.56 ~1.7 mmol/l;

High density lipoprotein cholesterol 0.94 ~ 2.0 mmol/L;

Low density lipoprotein cholesterol 2.07 ~ 3. 12i/L

2. Blood sugar

The normal range of fasting blood glucose is 3.9-6. 1mmol/L, and the glycemic index should be less than 6.2. If the fasting blood glucose is higher than normal after repeated tests, and the blood glucose index is greater than or equal to 6.7, it can generally be diagnosed as diabetes.

3. Uric acid

Uric acid reference index: When blood uric acid exceeds 390 micromole/L, hyperuricemia can generally be diagnosed.

4. Blood pressure

Normal blood pressure: 90 mm Hg

I have sent an article about vascular calcification, detailing the causes and solutions of vascular calcification. You can click on the bottom of the article to learn more and have a look.

In addition to going to the hospital for physical examination, how can I know the health status of my blood vessels? There are some small tests that can reflect some problems horizontally and are also very scientific:

1, depressed

It is easy to be true to some small things in life.

3. I like to eat some processed snacks such as sweets, instant noodles and biscuits.

I like eating meat and fried food.

5. Lack of outdoor activities and physical exercise.

6, the number of cigarettes smoked every day multiplied by the age, more than 400.

7. I often feel chest pain, chest tightness and breathlessness when going up and down stairs.

8. Hands and feet are often cold and numb, accompanied by pain.

9. Have high blood pressure all the year round.

10, often go out with the front foot and forget the key with the back foot, which is easy to forget things.

1 1, and the values of blood lipid, cholesterol and blood sugar are on the high side.

12. Among the immediate family members, some people died of stroke or heart disease.

13, the obvious characteristics of vascular aging: clumsy legs and feet, numbness of limbs and obvious skin wrinkles.

The more you meet the above 10, the higher your vascular "age" will be.

1, the blood vessels of those who meet the items 0-4 are still in the healthy range.

2, in line with 5-7, physiological (vascular) age is greater than the actual age.

3. If the number exceeds 8- 12, the physiological (vascular) age is seriously older than the actual age.

Three major hazards after vascular aging 1, causing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

The aging of blood vessels is like the rust, blockage and burst of old water pipes. If people reach middle age, the antioxidant capacity of blood vessels is weakened, and they don't know how to maintain blood vessels, the speed of vascular aging will be accelerated sharply, thus increasing the incidence of atherosclerosis, thrombosis and coronary heart disease.

2. Stroke happens from time to time.

Stroke, mostly sudden. Especially, the temperature difference between spring and winter is large, which is easy to cause vasospasm and increase the occurrence of stroke. Precursors of stroke: stiff tongue base, dizziness, weakness of limbs, numbness, slurred speech, etc. If these symptoms begin to appear, you must go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis in time.

3, blood vessels slowly blocked, lethargy, poor memory.

After the artery is blocked, it will affect the blood supply and oxygen supply between organs. If the body is seriously ischemic and hypoxic, it will lead to the decline or necrosis of the body's function. If the blood supply to the brain is insufficient, it will also cause serious consequences such as poor spirit, drowsiness all day, inattention and memory loss.

Protecting blood vessels, ORAC is actually very important. Let me tell you the concept of ORAC, which stands for the abbreviation of oxygen free radical absorption capacity. According to the news released by the American Food Nutrition Association, the daily intake of ORAC per person should be no less than 5,000 units, and the food sources should be more than 5 kinds.

Why should we supplement antioxidants? Because free radicals are the "root of all evils", they can damage cell DNA, and enhancing the antioxidant capacity of blood vessels is to inhibit and eliminate the oxidation reaction of free radicals.

With the increase of age, the ability of human body to repair free radicals is also declining. Unrecoverable free radicals will react with blood lipids and become the source of atherosclerosis. They can also oxidize low-density lipoprotein, cause platelet aggregation, form thrombus, and induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Tips:

ORAC is not the only index to measure the antioxidant strength. Usually, we should pay attention to a variety of dietary combinations and eat more dietary fiber, such as apples, bananas, cantaloupes, galangal, flour, rice, sweet potatoes, soybeans, water spinach and other healthy and fresh fruits and vegetables, so as to increase the body's elements and trace elements, thus strengthening the body's metabolic ability and disease resistance.

Doctor of medicine, doctor of life science, licensed pharmacist, senior nutritionist, protect life and health, refuse fake health preservation, and personally care for a healthy you!