Aneurysms: The Silent Killer

Aneurysms can cause a stroke or even death. Learn about some common causes of aneurysms and how to prevent them.

a lot of people are concerned about heart attacks and strokes what about an aneurysm an aneurysm can cause a stroke and it can definitely cause you to die so today I’m going to teach you a little bit about aneurysms what’s involved and what you need to do to prevent aneurysms the first symptom or early signs of an aneurysm is there is no symptom why because an aneurysm is just like this bulging dilation of your vascular system and unless it presses on something you’re not going to feel really any major symptoms at all until it ruptures and when it ruptures you have a hole in your artery so the blood’s going to come out and if this happens in your brain you get a stroke and potentially you might have a limited time to get to the emergency room to do something about it but not always so I think it’s still important to talk about aneurysms and what it is and what you can do to prevent it you can have an aneurysm in the brain around the heart in the aorta or in the kidneys many different places and there’s also a simple test that’s highly correlated to if a person has an aneurysm and that is called the thumb to Palm test so if you just take your hand right now and you take your thumb across your hand like this and if you’re thumb can extend to the outer part of your hand that can mean that you have extra loose collagen and there’s a high correlation between people that have this loose collagen and aneurysms now it doesn’t mean that you have an aneurysm and if you can’t move this over here that doesn’t mean you don’t have an aneurysm it’s just something to look at in fact do this test right now and comment down below if you can extend your thumb past your hand right here I’m really curious to know so let’s say for example you don’t have loose ligament structure and that’s not the cause what are some of the causes well we have smoking now you’re probably wondering like wait a second smoking goes into the lungs not the blood right but where do you think the oxygen and CO2 is being exchanged when you breathe your lungs directly connect with your capillaries which go right into your blood and if that thing is uh smoke you’re going to get carbon dioxide you’re going to get a lot of different chemicals that can start to irritate the lining of the artery in fact smokers have a 4X greater risk of getting an aneurysm than those non-smokers and then of course we have alcohol because there’s certain byproducts and chemicals that can irritate the lining of the arteries and I’m talking about like a chronic Drinker not occasionally and then of course we have diabetics and people who consume a lot of sugar so if we expose this layer of the inside of the artery to sugar and hidden sugars like in starches right modified food starch maltodextrin which is in a lot of different foods that can create oxidation and damage to the inside of the arteries if you’re consuming it on a regular basis and then you have seed oils and that’s another thing that can create chronic inflammation and this next one is very interesting Dental bacteria like bacteria in an absis in your gums they found that in the aneurysm and they also find it in plaque so apparently that can leak out into your vascular system and end up creating uh inflammation because there’s an infection going on so that’s another cause of inflammation in this layer in the heart anything that creates chronic oxidation or inflammation can start to weaken this uh arterial system and then on top of that if you have high blood pressure now we get all this pressure with all this inflammation now it starts to break down your arteries to the point where it’s starting to bulge out and so you really have to kind of just look at potentially what it could be for you if you have high blood pressure for example you want to take more potassium magnesium vitamin D those are the three things that will help bring the pressure down including going on a low carb diet there’s something else that can cause an aneurysm it’s not as common but it’s a copper deficiency copper is necessary in helping you build collagen if you’re deficient in Copper you can’t make the connective tissue to make everything nice and strong and firm copper does a lot of other things too it actually acts as an anti fungal antibacterial and uh one way to uh create a copper deficiency is to take a lot of zinc for a long period of time without the copper so you need that ratio of zinc to Copper so what are all the things that you can do to prevent an aneurysm well of course avoiding those things that create inflammation start to consume antioxidants okay that can be in the form of herbs or vitamin D or vitamin B vitamin C or foods with those nutrients vegetables and then to counteract a lot of the seed oils we need the omega-3 fatty acids and out of all the foods that are very high in omega-3 you have the Civ oil you also have fish as in Salmon vitamin D is also very very important uh vitamin D helps to prevent leaky arteries you can also have a leaky bloodb brain barrier and vitamin D prevents that which is interesting it’s a very powerful anti-inflammatory so getting a lot of sun is very important without getting burned and in the winter time you take your vitamin D3 minimally 10,000 I use and probably one of the most important things to do regular exercise because this way you can keep strengthening the arterial system over time so it lasts a long time so it becomes elastic so it doesn’t become weak and exercise in general increases antioxidants that you make yourself