On average, 5 to 6 liters per minute, or more than 7000 liters per day. This is the amount of blood that the heart pumps to distribute oxygen and nutrients to all organs, through an immense network of arteries and capillaries. However. When the arteries lose elasticity, if they are attacked by nicotine and too high blood pressure, or if they react to blood too loaded with sugar and cholesterol, they become sick. This disease is atherosclerosis, itself the cause of almost all cardiovascular diseases. Which constitute the second cause of death in France.
“If the arteries lose their flexibility and become damaged, it is also due to age, family history, or even gender: until menopause, women are in fact protected from atherosclerosis by its hormones,”
explains Professor Louis Potier, diabetologist and nutritionist at the Bichat-Claude-Bernard hospital (AP-HP/Inserm/university…
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