Even if you look the picture of health in middle age, your insides may tell a different story. In most of us there are many signs of ageing invisible to the naked eye, including that, from our forties and fifties, our arteries are hardening. In decline are the healthy, pliable blood vessels of youth that reliably expand and contract for every pulse of oxygenated blood from the heart, to be replaced by arteries that are stiffening with age. The upshot? As elasticity diminishes and artery walls become inflexible, the blood flow through them is less smooth, more erratic. Blood pressure rises, circulation to vital organs is affected and, well, you know the outcome.
Yet what if we could preserve our arteries with anti-ageing strategies that