Artery Health, Maintaining your Overall Cardiovascular Health

 

  Keeping your arteries healthy is crucial for overall cardiovascular health. Here are some ways to help clean and maintain healthy arteries:

- Diet and Lifestyle Changes:

    - Turmeric: Incorporate turmeric into your diet. Curcumin, the primary polyphenol in turmeric, has cardioprotective effects and may reduce LDL cholesterol and plaque buildup in arteries.

    - Garlic: Garlic can help prevent heart disease, lower blood pressure, and slow down atherosclerosis. It has been shown to prevent plaque buildup in arteries.

    - Soluble Fiber: Consume foods rich in soluble fiber, such as oats, beans, and fruits. Soluble fiber helps lower cholesterol levels.

    - Antioxidants: Include foods high in antioxidants, like berries, spinach, and nuts. Antioxidants protect against oxidative stress and inflammation.

    - Healthy Fats: Opt for healthy fats from sources like avocados, olive oil, and fatty fish.

    - Exercise Regularly: Physical activity improves circulation and helps maintain healthy arteries.

    - Stress Management: Chronic stress can impact artery health, so practice stress-reducing techniques like meditation or yoga.

- Medical Interventions:

    - Medications: Consult your doctor about cholesterol-lowering medications or blood pressure medications.

    - Minimally Invasive Procedures:

        - Balloon Angioplasty: A small balloon is inflated inside the artery to open the blocked area.

        - Laser Angioplasty: A laser vaporizes the blockage.

        - Atherectomy: Tiny amounts of the blockage are shaved off to open the vessel.

  Remember to consult a healthcare professional to tailor these recommendations to your specific needs. Lifestyle changes play a significant role in maintaining healthy arteries, but severe cases may require medical intervention. 🌿🏃‍♀️🍎

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    M.N.Curry

Green Tea Fights Fatal Conditions

                                                                       by: Darren Haynes

  The excellent health advantages of green tea are not limited to weight loss. It is the natural compounds in green tea, titled catechins, that provide a plenitude of other health benefits.

  Grown men who administer themselves high doses of polyphenols like catechin have 75 percent less probability of having a stroke. Green tea reduces the amount of bad LDL cholesterol and raises good HDL cholesterol count. This brings forth a more beneficial balance between LDL and HDL plasma levels. Additionally, there is confirmation that polyphenol catechins can help thin the blood and lessen blood pressure.

  Protection from cancer is associated with green tea drinking, too. Scientists have shown that damage to our DNA is one known determinant of cancer. Our DNA strands come under attack from thousands of unstable oxygen molecules every day. This is a normal thing for DNA. The amazing news is that our cells can repair itself.

  Still, our DNA can cave in to this assailant and the DNA strings will become permanently damaged. Damaged DNA will produce a mutant code and start creating cancerous cells! It is then great for us that the antioxidants of green tea can head off and subdue free radicals. This helps reduce our possibility of falling victim to cancer! Vast amounts of research have also concluded that green tea reduces the risk of prostate cancer, lung cancer, bowel cancer, skin cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, and bladder cancer!

  Green tea polyphenols elevate our count of white blood cells. A high white blood cell count is essential to a powerful immune system. There are two different white blood cells that polyphenols can strengthen - B-cells and T-cells. B-cells construct antibodies that defeat foreign objects and infectious microorganisms. T-cells engage particular invading organisms such as viruses and malignant cells.

   For the purpose of detoxification, the liver is our biggest weapon. It sponges up foreign chemicals from our blood and with the help of metabolic agents, chemically alters poisons into inert soluble materials. The harmful substances can then be excreted into the feces for elimination. With the levels of pollution in our environment and in our food in this age the liver experiences vast levels of stress! On the upside, catechins come to our aid! These compounds in green tea really do protect the liver from a number of these harmful substances by aiding the enzymes specific to detoxification. In this process, the liver is spared somewhat

About The Author

  Darren Haynes is a health and nutrition writer who focuses on antioxidants and healthy beverages.

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M.N.Curry