What changes inside
Flexibility helps your arteries respond to every heartbeat.
Your arteries are living, responsive tissue. With each heartbeat,
their walls need to expand and relax as blood moves through them.
As we get older, researchers pay increasing attention to
arterial stiffness and vascular function because
these influence how the cardiovascular system responds to each pulse.
Less flexible
A stiffer arterial wall expands less easily as each pulse
of blood moves through it.
More flexible
A more responsive arterial wall can expand and relax more
naturally with each heartbeat.
This is why aged garlic research looks beyond a single number
and also examines areas such as arterial stiffness and vascular function.