Protect the Heart and Cerebrovascular Eat These 4 Kinds of Food?

Let food replace medicine -- Hippocrates, "Father of medicine".

The hot weather in summer will make the blood in the blood vessels become sticky and prone to sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In order to better protect the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, we should eat more of these four kinds of food in our daily life.

1. Eggplant. Eggplant skin contains the cardiovascular protection god, vitamin P.

Vitamin P can enhance the adhesion between human cells, maintain the normal permeability of cells and capillary walls, increase the toughness and elasticity of microvessels, and have a protective effect on human microvessels.

2. Tomatoes. Tomatoes contain a very important functional substance, lycopene, which has important cardiovascular protective effects. Lycopene in tomatoes is an important antioxidant, which can effectively remove free radicals in the body, prevent inflammation and thrombosis, protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, and reduce the risk of heart disease.

Scientists at the National Center for Food Safety in Illinois found that cooked tomatoes have stronger antioxidant properties. Several other studies have found links between tomatoes and lower rates of prostate cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.

3. Garlic. Garlic contains allicin, which also has a protective effect on the cardiovascular system.

Allicin can lower blood pressure. Scientific reasoning behind its effect is that the body produces Hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) after breaking down allicin. Hydrogen sulfide can also help relax smooth muscle around blood vessels, making blood vessels more flexible and acting as a means of enlarging blood vessels, thus lowering blood pressure.

4. Apple. Apples not only protect the cardiovascular function, but also can antioxidant, anti-aging, protect the gastrointestinal tract.

For patients with high blood pressure, the habit of eating apple every day can absorb potassium ions, can improve the neutralization of sodium ions in the body, to achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure.

When the body fat continues to decompose into the blood vessels, the residual impurities will gradually reduce, especially the pectin in apple is absorbed and utilized by the human body in time, which has the effect of purifying blood vessels and avoiding the induction of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.