All It Took Was One Simple Thing
They all improved their health by improving the function of their endothelium (end-oh-THEE- lee-um).
The endothelium is a layer of cells that lines your blood vessels. It’s in the major arteries in your heart and lungs. It’s even in the tiniest capillaries in your fingers and toes, your eyes, and in every one of your organs.
In fact, the endothelium is the largest organ in your body. If you could spread it out, the cells would cover almost 2 entire football fields! And we now know the endothelium is one of the most important organs concerning your health.
People with a healthy endothelium feel good. They have few if any symptoms and stay active. When you see an older person who looks and acts younger than their age, they’re sure to have a healthy endothelium.
The reason why the endothelium is so vital is because it controls blood flow throughout your entire body. When you have good blood flow, fresh oxygen and nutrients are delivered to all your organs, tissues, and cells. This keeps everything working the way it should!
But if you have poor blood flow, your cells will be slowly deprived of oxygen and vital nutrients. For many people, the first sign of poor blood flow is they start feeling low on energy some days … or like they need to grab a cup of coffee or something sugary to get through the afternoon.
For other people they notice they have a harder time sleeping or have difficulty concentrating or remembering things. Or maybe, like Mike, their hands and feet get cold more easily or their fingers go numb.
Other signs of a sluggish endothelium are declining vision, a lower sex drive, aches and pains in the knees or other joints, or an increase in blood pressure or cholesterol levels.
This is when people often say they’re starting to feel “old.” I know this because I hear it in my practice all the time.
Hi, I’m Dr. Janet Zand. For over 25 years, I’ve specialized in helping people dramatically improve their health and stay active into their 70s, 80s, and beyond.
Some of my groundbreaking work has been featured in the Journal of Alternative Medicine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. Over the years, I’ve helped thousands of people look and feel younger than other people their age.
My patients come to me because they don’t like to just “manage” their health problems and symptoms. They want to get to the root cause of them.
The fact is, most of the things we think are “health problems” are actually just symptoms. They have an underlying cause. And whenever a patient tells me they have any of the symptoms I mentioned earlier, the underlying cause is most likely a sluggish endothelium.