John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz

Our blood vessels are some our most extraordinary tissue. Their main role is, of course, to provide blood flow to supply the oxygen and nutrients to individual cells. It may surprise you that our diets and general nutrient intake has a massive influence on both the health of blood vessels and on the actual structure of blood.

Ten years ago some researchers did a simple experiment. They got 30 volunteers to eat a high fat meal and noted a significant amount of stress on a major artery within a short time. They then repeated the trial with a second group with the same meal but this time added supplemental vitamins E and C and noticed no adverse effects of eating the high fat meal.
The antioxidants seemed to completely prevent free radical induced stress from the high fat meal.
I have just got off the phone from someone who has noted a real improvement in her eye health. Some time ago I had put her on a diet and supplements designed to help restore suppleness and blood flow to help with a skin condition.
I was targeting the tiny capillaries, which are incredibly vulnerable to losing suppleness mostly by accumulated free radical damage.
In her programme I used antioxidants including OPC's, acai extract, bilberry and vitamin C which are very effective in helping capillary function. The eye has a bed of some of our tiniest capillaries, some so small that red blood cells move in single file. We helped these to function better and both her skin and eyes have improved. These nutrients not only help tiny capillaries they also help support the health of major arteries, and help maintain vein health for good general circulation.
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John Arts is a qualified Nutritional Therapist
and founder of Abundant Health.
Contact John on 0800 423 559.
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