Generally speaking, women live longer than men because women are protected by estrogen before menopause.
This hormone can not only reduce serum cholesterol levels and delay the process of atherosclerosis, but also regulate water and sodium balance and reduce the risk of hypertension.
However, after menopause, women lose the protection of estrogen, and their blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar tend to rise, which will accelerate the development of atherosclerosis and increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that legs are health monitors. You can know whether a woman will live long by looking at her feet. Come and take a look at your feet. Do you have these four longevity characteristics?
1. Women’s legs often have 4 characteristics that may lead to longevity
1. No numbness in the feet
If the legs remain in a certain posture for a long time, such as crossing the legs, squatting or sitting for a long time, it is normal to cause numbness in the legs. As long as the posture is adjusted in time and the body gradually relaxes, it can generally be relieved within 2-3 minutes.
If after excluding these physiological factors, you still have numbness in your feet frequently, even when you sleep, it is most likely caused by a disease.
Common diseases, such as lumbar spondylosis, lower limb arterial embolism, cerebral atherosclerosis, etc., can be manifested by symptoms of numbness in the feet. Therefore, it is a sign of longevity that women do not often experience leg numbness after menopause.
2. The skin on the legs is rosy
Based on the color of the leg skin, a person's health status can be preliminarily judged. The skin of a normal person's leg will appear pink with a certain luster. It will return to normal in a short time after applying forceful pressure.
The skin of women's legs with poor blood circulation will appear white or cyan. For example, patients with kidney failure or heart failure will have white legs and edema. In patients with arterial embolism, the skin of the legs will turn blue and purple.
3. Walk powerfully
Many female friends are only in their early 60s, and daily walking has become extremely difficult, which is not a good sign. If you have difficulty walking, on the one hand, you should check whether there are brain diseases, knee joint lesions, rheumatic immune diseases, etc., on the other hand, you should also check whether there is atrophy of leg muscles.
After menopause, female friends still walk with strength and speed, indicating that there are no related leg or brain diseases, and there are no obvious signs of leg muscle atrophy. Women of this type have a high probability of longevity.
4. Warm soles of feet
Elderly people's feet are prone to coldness, mostly due to insufficient kidney yang or improper warmth retention. Such people should eat more foods that are warm in nature to improve the body's cold tolerance. If the soles of the feet are hot, it may be due to yin deficiency and internal heat. You should eat more sweet, cool and moist foods such as mung beans, winter melon, and lean meat.
If the temperature of a woman's legs is neither too high nor too low, and she can regulate her body temperature by herself, and her feet are warm when it's cold outside, it means the blood circulation in her legs is very good. Therefore, the temperature of the soles of the feet of a long-lived person should be the same as that of the hands, moderately warm but not cold or hot.
2. What can menopausal women do to improve their health?
1. Keep exercising
There are various types of exercise. Choosing the one that suits you will reap many benefits. During exercise, it can increase the basal metabolic rate, promote calorie consumption, and improve blood circulation.
Many people sit for long periods of time and work in the office for several hours without getting up and moving. The blood flow in the lower limbs is slow and the legs are prone to numbness, which is not good for the health of the feet.
Female friends who have exercise habits are mostly slim and have better skin condition. It is recommended that female friends take 20 to 30 minutes a day to actively participate in exercise.
Promote blood circulation, improve cardiopulmonary function, and enhance the oxygen content of the heart and brain. If you are healthy and do not get sick, your natural longevity will be more favorable to you.
2. Soak your feet correctly
Protect your feet and soak your feet properly. By soaking your feet, you can not only relax your body and improve your sleep quality, but also promote blood circulation in your lower limbs and allow blood to flow normally after soaking your feet.
However, it should be noted that for patients with diabetes and peripheral neuropathy, since the nerves in their legs are not sensitive to temperature, they must pay attention to the water temperature when soaking their feet to avoid leg burns.
3. Adjust your mentality
A good mentality is also very important for physical health, especially female friends. If you often lose your temper and get sulky, you are prone to breast hyperplasia and other diseases, which is also not good for liver health.
Therefore, in daily life, you should try to be less angry, maintain a positive and optimistic attitude, communicate more, and cultivate more interests and hobbies. When you are in a good mood, your health will naturally come.
4. Regular work and rest
If women want to delay aging and maintain a healthy body, they must insist on getting "beauty sleep". Sleep can be said to be the cheapest way to maintain health, and it is also the process of detoxifying the body.
If you stay up late for a long time, it will cause great damage to the body. It will not only reduce the body's resistance and immunity, increase the risk of disease, but also accelerate aging, making people look older.
Birth, old age, illness and death are human nature, and longevity is also the result of a combination of factors. We cannot judge longevity just by looking at our feet, but we can detect some physical problems through abnormalities in our feet. If you want to maintain good health, the most effective way is to adjust your personal emotions in a timely manner, maintain a regular schedule, and eat healthily.
