The most common cause of death in Philippines, which is more than 40% of the total number of about 100,000 people, is cardiovascular disease. The main cause of these with age is cholesterol. It is probably the most dangerous substance in the world. It kills people more often than alcohol, nicotine and drugs.
About 85% of the time, if someone doesn't live to be 80, it's because high blood pressure, caused by cholesterol deposits in the blood vessels, kills them.
Cholesterol is dangerous to health. If it does not accumulate in the walls of the arteries, a person can easily live over 100 years!
What is cholesterol? I will not give a description of this substance here, because it is written in medical books. I'll explain it to you more simply. Try to imagine the cold fat left after dinner on an unwashed frying pan - this is cholesterol!
This substance, being in the blood, is deposited on the walls of blood vessels. First small plaques (at age 20-25), then the cholesterol layer grows rapidly (at age 25-40), as more and more particles stick to the sticky layer. As a result, at age 40, your blood vessels are more than 50% blocked with cholesterol! In response, our heart has no choice but to raise our blood pressure. From this comes age-related pressure spikes - hypertension. But that's not the most dangerous thing!
Much more dangerous is the fact that cholesterol literally clogs the smallest blood vessels that exist in all tissues. Organs and tissues stop getting necessary nutrients and oxygen. As a result of impaired blood supply, pathological processes develop in internal organs. Against this background, a person develops chronic diseases.
First the stomach became ill, then the spleen, and after a while the liver and pancreas developed stenosis. Usually in such cases they say that a person's health is undermined. Cholesterol most often triggers this process.
Everything in our body depends on the condition of blood vessels. If there is a blockage in the legs - it causes varicose veins, constant swelling and heaviness. If in the liver, you can get hepatitis and cirrhosis. And if the blood vessels are blocked in the eye, then the person gradually loses his vision. And all this is accompanied by pain in the joints and spine due to an insufficient supply of nutrients.
In addition, blood clots can form in contaminated blood vessels, essentially a clot of blood cells mixed with cholesterol. This clot also adheres to the walls of the vessels, but its insidiousness is that at any moment it can break off and go straight to the heart or brain! And this instantly leads to a heart attack or stroke, which in turn most often leads to death.
Check yourself if you are over 30 and you are noticing these symptoms - your blood vessels are contaminated almost to critical levels!
Symptoms of blockage of blood vessels:
● Swelling in the morning
● Tinnitus
● Temporary visual impairment, problems with focusing
● Joint pain
● Headache and dizziness
● Insomnia at night
● Feeling of constant fatigue
● Blurred vision
● Deteriorating memory
● Varicose veins
● Difficulty breathing
● Digestive problems
● Overweight problem