Improving Your Vascular Health
One reason exercise is so good for the heart is because it improves endothelial function. When researchers compared exercise to curcumin supplementation, they found that curcumin was just as effective as exercise in improving endothelial function
What puts me at risk of heart and circulatory disease?
Many heart and circulatory diseases share the same risk factors including:
- poorly managed diabetes
- high blood pressure
- high cholesterol
- being overweight or obese
- smoking
- drinking too much alcohol.
- How My Heart Works
Your vascular system is made up of three types of vessels: arteries, which carry blood away from your heart; capillaries, which connect arteries to veins; and veins, which carry blood back to your heart. Eating certain foods can help encourage healthy activity throughout your vascular system.
Foods That Stimulate the Vascular System
1. Maintaining a healthy weight
2. Jogging
3. Practicing yoga
4. Eating oily fish
5. Drinking tea
6. Keeping iron levels balanced
The characteristics of an inflammatory response are as follows:
- Vasodilatation to increase blood flow to the area.
- Increase vascular permeability to allow diffusible components to enter the site.
- Cellular infiltration by chemotaxis, or the directed movement of inflammatory cells through the walls of blood vessels to the site of injury.
- Changes in biosysnthetic, metabolic, and catabolic profiles of many organs.
- Activation of cells of the immune system as well as of complex enzymatic systems of blood plasma.
During an inflammatory response, our blood flow is increased to transport more white blood cells to the injured area. The white blood cells first surround the damaged tissue, then together with the other cells in the damaged tissues neutralize, repair the damage and remove whatever is causing the injury. This reaction can be measured in the blood by the elevation of a substance called C reactive protein.
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