You know heart disease is right at the top of the list among all causes of death and I talk a lot about what to avoid for heart problems and cardiovascular disease

But today we're going to talk about what to eat to clean out your arteries, whether you already have an existing heart problem or you want to just prevent some things.

So I'm going to talk about what to eat, but I think it's going to be important to also cover what not to eat.

So I just want to briefly talk about that and then get right into exactly what you should eat,

so that way you know why you should eat certain things.

All right, so where does this heart problem actually start and originate?

Well, it starts on the inside of your artery.

There's a very thin layer of cells.

In fact, it's just a one cell layer thickness inside your arteries and

it's called the endothelial layer and it's permeable. It allows things to go back

and forth and it lines all your vascular system as well as the

lymphatic system and your kidneys are connected to this so when you filter

blood to the kidneys you have this little thin wall that helps to filter things out, as well as keep things in.

And so this cell wall actually has a lot of different receptors for controlling blood pressure.

There's hormonal interactions, there's a huge immune part of these cells.

So whatever's in your blood is going to affect that layer.

I mean the obvious thing is like when you smoke or drink.

Those things, those toxins end up in your blood and it actually influences that cell wall.

And I do want to emphasize the word chronic because you have people that occasionally go off their

plans, right? But then you have people that chronically do certain things, right? They're chronically

exposing their arteries to whatever's in the smoke or whatever's in their food or

alcohol and that really creates the big problem and you also have as another

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