An old Chinese medicine expert uses only one trick to keep blood vessels young until they are 100 years old

Many people think that gray hair and sagging skin are signs of aging. In fact, once your blood vessels age, your entire body begins to age, and diseases will find you!

Everyone knows their age, but do you know the age of your blood vessels?

You can know your vascular age with just one test!

Check to see if your blood vessels are younger than your actual age or have entered the elderly stage.

1. Is there any emotional repression?

2. Are you too serious?

3. Do you like to eat instant noodles, biscuits and snacks?

4. Whether you have a preference for meat and fried foods;

5. Lack of exercise?

6. Whether the number of cigarettes smoked per day multiplied by the smoking age exceeds 400;

7. Do you often feel chest pain when climbing stairs?

8. Do your hands and feet feel cold or numb?

9. Are you forgetful and often lose things?

10. Do you have high blood pressure?

11. Whether cholesterol and blood sugar levels are high;

12. Do you have any relatives who died of coronary heart disease or stroke?

If you meet 1 to 4 of the following conditions, it means your vascular age is still young and you should continue to work hard to keep your vascular age within the normal range.

If 5 to 7 items are met, it means that your vascular age is more than 10 years older than your physiological age, and it is time to adjust your lifestyle.

If you meet 8 to 12 items, it means that your vascular age is more than 20 years older than your physiological age. By this time, disease was already knocking on the door.

Why should we learn about the health of our blood vessels?

Because blood vessels are the lifeline of the human body. The vascular endothelium of each of us is smooth and clean when we are born, but as we age, fat and cholesterol in the blood will slowly deposit, causing the vascular endothelium to gradually thicken and the blood vessel lumen to gradually narrow, narrowing by 1% to 2% each year.

The rate of blood vessel narrowing is 3 to 4% per year. When the arteries are blocked by more than 75%, the blood flow is too little and people will have various uncomfortable symptoms, such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, dizziness, headache, etc.; more serious cases are stroke and myocardial infarction.

The famous French doctor Casanis in the 19th century once said: "A person's life is as long as his arteries." If the blood vessels are young, the person is young; if the blood vessels are old, the person is old; if the blood vessels are broken, the person dies.

So, what are some ways to keep blood vessels younger?

Traditional Chinese medicine teaches a set of vascular exercises to keep your blood vessels young and keep you young even when you are a hundred years old!

Professor Wang Xudong from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine will teach you a little trick today: vascular exercise - vascular gymnastics to protect the elasticity of our blood vessels.

This method allows us to use natural temperature to help our blood vessels, perform the contraction and relaxation exercise to maintain blood vessel elasticity. So how do we do it? Just take a bath at home!

Specific steps:

1. Start with 40~45℃ hot water. After turning on the hot water, bathe your body. Use hot water for 2~3 minutes, then adjust the temperature to low.

If you are in good health, use hot water at 20~25℃. If you feel that water at 20~25℃ is a bit cold, you can use warm water at 30~40℃ (middle-aged and elderly people must not use water that is too cold).

2. Then use hot water, then cold water, alternate 5 to 10 times, and finally wash with hot water.

Blood vessels throughout the body dilate due to a hot shower and constrict due to a cold shower. The expansion and contraction of blood vessels increases their elasticity and makes them less likely to harden. If you persist in this exercise, your blood vessel movement will get better and better.

Ma Yinchu, a contemporary Chinese economist and educator, lived to be 100 years old. He did vascular gymnastics every day, all year round, for decades, and Ma persisted in this exercise for 76 years.

However, this type of vascular exercise is not suitable for everyone.

Who is not suitable for “vascular exercises”?

People who are accustomed to taking hot baths should not take a cold bath immediately after taking a hot bath. Instead, they should take a warm bath first and gradually lower the water temperature. After a period of adaptation, they can then adopt the vascular exercise of "hot first and then cold".

Blood vessels are young and young! A professor of traditional Chinese medicine recommends vascular gymnastics. If you keep doing them, your blood vessels will stay young until you are 100 years old!

We might as well try this simple and practical method. If you find it useful, please share it with more friends! Everyone needs a good method~