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The vain blueprints: how do we take care of these highways and interstates carrying all the nutrients, all the messages to control everything inside of you? They say if you stretch out the vessels and the veins inside of your body, if you unravel them and take them out, they would stretch all the way around the world—16,000 miles of vessels and veins inside of you, not including the nerves. My job today with this blueprint for you and this training is how do we give you some action steps? How do we give you some health-supporting factors of nutrients that have been scientifically proven to help support healthier veins?
So, I've got my guided notes for you. Right out of the gates here, you can click the link on this page that you're watching; you're able to download this and follow along. Very straightforward guided notes. Let me show you these right here. So, vein health: I cover a lot of info with different conditions as we go. You can follow along with that. That PDF is right there; it should be clickable and downloadable for you to be able to get.
Let's dive in. So, the veins: let's start with varicose veins and edema. Now, there are different stages of vein distension and diseases. You get spider veins going on. I'm not going to sit here and give you all the solutions to eliminate your spider veins, okay? Some of you are going to have that consistency over time. I know you don't know how it looks; we're going to try to improve it or at least prevent it from getting worse.
Okay, varicose veins: where we start to get them distended, stage two. Then we get into edema. Now, in this state, obviously, you need to be seeking medical attention. This is nothing to mess around with. We want to make sure there's not heart involvement, like my dad had, or liver involvement. Okay, then you start to get skin changes because we're lacking these nutrients. The garbage is sitting down in here, and it leads to ulcers—very serious conditions.
Now, I want to talk a little bit more over here about how we can get you a better status of these veins and help these legs out. What can we eat? What can we do to prevent some of this from going on? In addition, a couple of tests you could look at: I think you should still pay attention to the inflammation levels from an ESR perspective, CRP—there it is again—platelets. I would want to know if you've got inflammation on the blood side; we've got inflammation on the vein side. So, inflammation built up could be bogging down those arteries and veins.
The reason I would recommend measuring this and your liver enzymes is because all of that blood flow from the legs is feeding up and dumping through the hepatic portal vein. So, it literally is coming up from the legs, and then it goes through a big vein and dumps into the liver. The liver starts processing all of that, cleaning it up, taking it back up into those lungs to get it reoxygenated, turning it into red, and kicking it out over the other side. So, if the liver is bogged down, a big symptom of that is you can start to see swelling show up in the legs, fatigue starting to show up.
So, if you've got some of that swelling, we want to look at the health of the liver. The easy way to measure those is ferritin and liver enzymes. Taking a look at these two: if ferritin is high, we've got to cleanse that liver. If the liver enzymes are high, we’ve got to cleanse that liver.
Now, foods wise to help support the vein and venous flow: fish oils keep the inflammation down, along with chia and flax. We've got good fibers as well. Ginger is excellent; it helps support proper vein flow. Antioxidants like cayenne help support this from a swelling perspective. Turmeric is a great anti-inflammatory. Sea salt might have an imbalance of the minerals. Now, if there's lots of swelling going on, this might be the first thing I put in, but sea salt helps those minerals get in you with the chloride, magnesium, potassium—all the elements that are needed in proper sea salt.
Citrus fruit is a very good supporter of bioflavonoids for those veins. Acerola is another one that's a good source of vitamin C for those veins. The antithesis: alcohol, smoking, high fructose corn syrup, processed foods, rancid fats, seed oils—you can see the trend here. This compromises arteries very quickly because it's got to deal with all the nutrients coming in.
So, rebounding is very good for pumping. I just said that your vessels have the heart spurt, spurt, spurt, and it can narrow the passageway to make it travel even faster. But the veins rely on the pumps of your body; the muscles are stimulating the veins to pump the blood back to your heart. To bring the garbage back to your heart, you've got to activate those. I like rebounding for this because you're jumping and pumping your calf muscle when you jump, so it helps pump the blood back up to the heart.
This is a mini rebounder, a mini trampoline that you can use for a couple of minutes a day. You can do squat jumps, regular jumps, or star jumps. You can get one with a handle, so it's easier on your knees or low back.
Okay, leg stretches and leg strengthening: I have an entire rehab protocol for the knees and the legs. It's important to be working on those muscles. Squats and stretches help those muscles out. Consider doing that liver cleanse if you're getting spider veins, varicose veins, or leg edema. I would highly recommend cleansing the liver.
Supporting nutrients: diamin helps support leg vein health and circulation. It reduces leg soreness, heaviness, discomfort, burning, cramps, and prickly sensations. Studies show this. The other big one: go-to cola. No, not Coca-Cola—go-to cola. It helps with the heaviness, pain, and edema; studies show this, and you have these studies in your packet.
Another great nutrient specifically for vein health: horse chestnut. Horse chestnut extract supports healthy vein sufficiency. So, it's the distension that starts to happen. For so long, I've been asked what's a nutrient that can help support varicose veins, spider veins, and edema. The main one I would pick is horse chestnut. So, that extract helps the vein sufficiency. Go-to cola helps with the heaviness, pain, and edema. So, these two nutrients are very important.
These are a little bit obscure when it comes to foods and stuff that might have them. I would consider adding vitamin C plus the bioflavonoids—a very good choice for the veins to help with that inflammation. So, following the nutritional pieces, activating autophagy, and adding in rebounding can be part of your workouts during the challenge.
Okay, one more that dips into sort of veins and arteries: Raynaud's. Raynaud's is triggered by coldness, emotional stress, or working with hand tools that emit a lot of vibration. When you're real hard on your hands or maybe doing a lot of computer work over time, your fingertips can turn white as the blood vessels constrict, then they turn blue because of lack of oxygen, and then they turn red as the blood flow returns. So, it's this disruption of proper blood flow and vein return inside of the hands.
Typically, testing wise, it's not a ton, but you want to look if there's any kind of autoimmune component to this. Any type of vessel or vein constriction can be greatly impacted by any kind of autoimmune condition, so that would be the first thing to address. If you do have one of those, you can measure the inflammation: the arthritis sedimentation rate, CRP, and platelets with your doctor just to see how the inflammation is going.
Some foods to focus on: a lot of the same ones that I talked about with vein health up to this point, but also there are herbs and spices. Ginger and cayenne—we talked about them. They have antioxidant properties that help with the buildup of plaque in arteries. So, I like ginger and cayenne for vessel health. Omega-3 helps with circulation. Garlic and chili powders can also help. Apples—unpeeled apples have rutin in them. Rutin is a good source of those bioflavonoids.
If you have Raynaud's, it's very important to get half of your body weight in ounces of water to help stimulate that blood flow—half your body weight in ounces of water per day. Again, cut out the smoking, alcohol, fructose, processed food, and rancid fats. This is the only one of the artery and vein conditions that I would not recommend extended fasting. The reason being is because cold temperatures can put you into this whiteness and cut off that supply. When you fast, it can make you more susceptible to those cold temperatures because you don't have the food in your body, and it's altering the amount of water in your system and the amount of blood supply in the system.
So, this is the only one that I don't recommend extended fasting. You can still do a little bit of fasting, but not extended. For that reason, just follow the workouts to stimulate the blood flow. Dry brushing on your arms or your legs can stimulate the surface-level circulatory flow. Go-to cola is a very good one for this. Diamine is a very good one, along with vitamin C and the bioflavonoids.
So, there are your supporting nutrients again to help those vessels and veins. But doing that movement, following the eating plan, and adding in the vitamin C and omegas—that's the recommendations and some of the specifics. Breaking this down, working our way through how do we take care of this other very important part of our body.
So, there are so many foods you can be eating to help support that. There are so many things you can be eliminating to help support that. There are activities like rebounding and dry brushing that you can be doing to help support these. There it is, peeps!