The cleaner these 5 parts of your body are, the longer you may live!

45 years old is also called pre-senile

The earlier you start anti-aging, the better

If you are over 45

These parts of the body can still remain "clean"

Maybe you will be healthier and live longer!

Blood vessels play an important role in human health. Clean blood vessels also mean fewer plaques and blood clots, and a lower risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

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Tips for keeping blood vessels "clean":

1. Quit smoking

Nicotine, a harmful substance in tobacco, can induce repeated contraction of the vascular endothelium, causing endothelial damage, accelerating the process of arteriosclerosis, and triggering early coronary heart disease and other arteriosclerotic diseases.

2. Don’t eat too strong a flavor

A diet high in oil and sugar can easily make people fat, while a diet high in salt is related to high blood pressure, both of which greatly increase the risk of blood vessel blockage.

3. Reduce sitting

People who sit for long periods of time and move little will have slower blood circulation, increased blood viscosity, and weaker myocardial contraction. Over time, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, etc. will follow.

Proper exercise is essential for vascular maintenance . Exercise can increase cardiovascular reserve capacity, relieve sympathetic nerve overexcitation, and delay the progression of arteriosclerosis.

4. Control your weight

Metabolic syndrome, represented by abdominal obesity, can easily increase the cardiovascular burden, causing a series of problems such as high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and high blood sugar, leading to earlier onset of arteriosclerosis.

Losing weight is an effective way to avoid this risk factor .

5. Learn to reduce stress

Long-term mental stress and anxiety can cause sympathetic nerve excitement, vasoconstriction and spasm. At the same time, vascular pressure will increase, causing endothelial damage and lipid deposition, leading to arteriosclerosis.

6. Manage the “three highs”

Hypertension, high blood lipids and high blood sugar are more or less related to cardiovascular overload, and the "three highs" may eventually lead to serious complications such as coronary heart disease and stroke .

The intestine is an important organ for nutrient digestion and absorption, metabolism and immunity. At the same time, it is also an important immune organ of the human body and is known as the "second brain of the human body."

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If the intestinal barrier function is damaged, pathogenic bacteria may invade and cause a variety of diseases; if polyps grow in the intestine, especially adenomatous polyps, the probability of developing colon cancer will also increase.

Tips for keeping your intestines clean:

1. Don’t eat too greasy food

Eating large amounts of high-fat, fried foods for a long time can easily disrupt the balance of intestinal flora, causing the intestines to be overburdened and unable to completely break down fat, which will lead to impaired intestinal digestion and absorption functions.

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It is recommended to eat appropriate amounts of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains rich in dietary fiber, which is beneficial to intestinal health.

2. Don’t sit still for too long

If you sit for a long time, intestinal motility will slow down, which can easily cause problems such as constipation and hemorrhoids.

3. Don’t drink too little water

One of the basic functions of the large intestine is to recycle water from feces. The more dehydrated the body is, the drier the feces will be and the more severe the constipation will be.

4. Don’t abuse antibiotics

Antibiotics can kill harmful bacteria but also damage beneficial bacteria. Long-term use of antibiotics can easily lead to an imbalance in intestinal flora.

5. Don’t hold your bowel movements often

Some people often ignore or suppress the urge to defecate because they are too busy, but if this continues for a long time, the intestines will become "sluggish" and easily cause constipation.

6. Don’t eat too little

If you eat too little, there will not be enough food residues to stimulate intestinal peristalsis, which can easily lead to constipation and increase the risk of intestinal diseases.

The lungs are an important organ for the human body to breathe. If the lungs are "dirty", respiratory diseases such as coughing, asthma, pneumonia and lung cancer are likely to occur, and even affect organs throughout the body.

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Tips to keep your lungs “clean”:

1. Do not smoke and quit smoking in time

The best thing you can do to protect your lungs is to quit smoking!

Normal lungs should be bright pink, but many smokers' lungs are black because of the accumulation of tar and heavy metals in the smoke.

The lungs of a 30-year smoker. Image from CCTV News

2. Keep your home clean

Kitchen fumes, decoration paints, cleaning supplies, etc. are all indoor pollution sources, which will release some irritating or carcinogenic substances . Long-term inhalation will irritate the trachea and lungs, causing inflammation or granulomas and other reactions.

It is recommended to use a range hood in the kitchen, and when cooking, the range hood should be turned on early and off late . Turn it on before cooking, and wait a while after cooking before turning it off.

If you are decorating your home, it is best to choose environmentally friendly decoration materials.

3. Exercise regularly

Increasing exercise helps to enhance lung function and resistance.

4. Eat a healthy diet

It is also very important to reduce inflammation in the lungs and body and prevent infection. Eat a balanced diet, eat more anti-inflammatory foods such as whole grains (brown rice, millet, oats, quinoa, buckwheat, etc.), vegetables and fruits, and ensure that you have high-quality protein sources such as meat and beans.

At the same time, eat less or no high-fat, high-salt, high-sugar, fried, grilled and other foods that are not good for health, as these foods will increase the burden on the lungs.

The liver is the largest digestive organ in the human body. It detoxifies, metabolizes, secretes bile, and participates in immune defense. It can be said to be a "large chemical factory" in the human body.

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If the liver is "dirty", filled with fat or viruses, that is, fatty liver or hepatitis B, it will affect metabolism and health.

Tips for keeping your liver “clean”:

1. Avoid obesity

Generally speaking, the process of obesity is that the liver first gets fatter, then the waist, and finally the overall weight becomes overweight.

If a man's waist circumference exceeds 2.7 feet and a woman's waist circumference exceeds 2.3 feet, it should be taken seriously.

To avoid obesity, you need to "control your mouth and move your legs", pay attention to a light diet with less oil, salt and sugar.

2. Don’t drink alcohol

When the liver processes alcohol, it produces large amounts of free radicals, which accelerate aging and cause disease.

3. Do not abuse medication

You should read the instructions for taking medicine . The liver is the largest and most important chemical factory in the human body, and almost all drugs are metabolized by the liver. Therefore, the concentration of drugs and their metabolites in the liver is much higher than in other organs.

4. Prevent Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B is mainly transmitted through blood and cannot be transmitted through contact without blood exposure.

Pay attention to personal hygiene, prevent medical transmission, and vaccinate newborns with hepatitis B vaccine; those infected should actively receive treatment.

Alzheimer's disease is also commonly known as "senile dementia". If we can make the brain "cleaner", it means that we may be able to stay away from Alzheimer's disease and live a healthier and longer life.

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Tips to keep your brain “clean”:

1. Reduce staying up late

When the brain works during the day, it produces "waste" such as Tau protein and β-amyloid protein, which are related to Alzheimer's disease. When sleeping, the brain secretes cerebrospinal fluid to clean up these "wastes" .

Therefore, it is recommended that you go to bed before 11pm to give your brain enough time to "recover".

2. Keep exercising

Long-term, regular and effective moderate to high intensity exercise can exercise and enhance cardiovascular function, thereby helping with "brainwashing", which has the same effect as "brainwashing" through sleep.

Statement: This article is a medical-related educational popular science article. It does not involve specific treatment methods or medical behaviors and cannot replace hospital visits.

References

This article is compiled from:

①2022-09-01 China Traditional Chinese Medicine Journal "Han Mingxiang: Anti-aging should start early and health preservation should be balanced"

②2023-05-28 Popular Health Magazine "Do these things well to slow down the aging of blood vessels"

③2017-02-14 Health Times "Where does long-term sitting harm your health"

④2013-10-17 Health Times "Preventing arteriosclerosis is a lifelong task"

⑤ 2023-12-22 Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital "【Health Lecture-137】How to make the intestines healthier"

⑥2019-01-22 Health Times "Many children hold their bowel movements in school"

⑦2015-01-15 Health Times "Eating too little can also harm your intestines"

⑧CCTV News: "The 'smoking lungs' under the endoscope are horrible to look at"

⑨2023-10-31 Health Times "Is lung nodule related to cooking at home?"

⑩2016-02-16 Health Times "Relieve the burden on the liver, this chemical factory"

⑪2017-07-21 Health Times "What is fatty liver related to?"

⑫2020-01-14 Health Times "The liver is most afraid of taking random medications"

⑬2023-03-20 Jin Wan Bao "Hepatitis B is not scary, prevention is the key"

⑭2024-02-20 Beijing Daily Client "New Alzheimer's drug approved for entry into China: How far are we from "curing" it?"

⑮2019-04-02 Health Times "Sleeping is like your brain taking a bath"

⑯2022-03-31 Tongji Hospital of Huazhong University of Science and Technology "So that's it! Exercise can "brainwash", resist aging, and make you happy!"

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