"Mom, can you stop cooking with fungus? I've been eating for nearly three months. Let me go!" "Eating more fungus can soften blood vessels and eat a few more..." seeing the dialogue between mother and child sent by friends, I know that the folk "soil flavor" blood vessel softening method is still believed by some people, even though doctors have been popular science many times. Can blood vessels soften Arteriosclerosis is a common disease in middle-aged and elderly patients. When the blood vessels become sclerotic, many people think that as long as the blood vessels become "soft", they can improve the condition. Therefore, some patients in the clinic often ask me what food to eat to soften the blood vessels. To figure out whether blood vessels can soften, we need to figure out what arteriosclerosis is. Arteriosclerosis is a kind of disease based on the disorder of lipid metabolism. Lipids dominated by cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein deposit under the vascular intima, and then gradually form thrombus locally, and further form atherosclerotic plaque through fibrosis and calcification, which eventually leads to thickening and hardening of arterial wall and stenosis of vascular cavity. Because the appearance of sclerotic plaque is mostly yellow, arteriosclerosis is also known as atherosclerosis. It should be emphasized that arteriosclerosis is an irreversible process, and the blood vessels after hardening cannot return to normal state. Therefore, the process of vascular sclerosis can only be delayed and cannot be reversed, that is, blood vessels cannot be softened. These methods are useless There are many ways to soften blood vessels in life, but responsibly, they are all useless. Vinegar is true that hardened vascular plaques contain calcium. Soaking calcium in acetic acid can indeed produce a certain dissolution reaction, but vinegar ingested by mouth cannot directly enter the blood and cannot change the pH of the blood. The pH of human blood is also relatively constant and will not be easily affected by food. Moreover, taking a large amount of vinegar may also corrode and burn the digestive tract mucosa, which is not worth the loss. Edible fungus, onion and garlic have the effect of reducing blood lipid to a certain extent and can delay the formation of new sclerotic plaque, but they are not effective for sclerotic vascular diseases, especially old plaque. Some businesses of health products claim that health products such as lecithin and deep-sea fish oil can soften blood vessels, which should not be taken lightly. The hypolipidemic effect of health products can only delay the further development of arteriosclerosis, and can not directly act on arteriosclerosis, so it can not soften blood vessels. (outlook new era)