What if one glass of a cheap and common juice could not just lower your blood pressure and remove arterial plaque buildup, but also soften your already-hardened heart arteries?
It’s worth putting it to the test, right?
Well, French researchers have already tested this for you, with amazing results.
In a joint study from France by the French National Institute for Agricultural Research and the Institute for Health and Medical Research, scientists followed participants for six months.
They tracked the health of blood vessels (specifically the carotid artery) among people who drank 340 ml of grapefruit juice per day—and the benefits were amazing.
The level of atherosclerosis, or hardening of arteries, was measured before, during, and after the trials.
The participants spent a few weeks in either a grapefruit-drinking phase or a control phase, followed by a two-month cleanse where no one drank grapefruit juice. Then, the groups were switched.
What the researchers found was that the carotid arteries of participants in the grapefruit-drinking phase were much softer and healthier compared to when they were not drinking grapefruit juice.
This is amazing since doctors often claim that once arteries start hardening, there is no turning back. The only way to avoid stroke and heart attack is to force blood pressure down using dangerous medications.
High blood pressure is the main cause of the hardening of artery walls. Pounding the artery walls with such strength forces your body to make the vessel walls thicker and harder to withstand the pressure.
Once the arteries become less flexible, the already-high blood pressure tends to rise even more, eventually leading to stroke or heart attack.
Thus, using grapefruit juice does half the work of improving your arterial health. The other half involves lowering your blood pressure (grapefruit juice helps with that as well).
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