At a certain age, physical function decreases and the probability of suffering from various diseases increases. Cerebral infarction is a high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in modern people, and middle-aged and elderly people are also high incidence of cerebral infarction. If you want to prevent cerebral infarction and reduce the risk of cerebral infarction, you need to supplement folic acid in time. The following points need to be kept in mind.

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To prevent cerebral infarction in the elderly, folic acid should be supplemented. How to supplement it correctly? The doctor gave three suggestions.

Determine whether the body lacks folic acid.

Folic acid is good, but it can't just be supplemented. You must first know whether your body lacks folic acid, and at the same time know whether you can absorb folic acid.

Choose diet or medicine

Because there are many folic acid supplements on the market, many of them contain folic acid, so what method is better to supplement folic acid? At this time, you need to follow the doctor's advice, and the doctor will help you choose the appropriate method according to your actual situation.

To prevent cerebral infarction, folic acid supplementation is often not enough.

It is worth mentioning that the metabolic pathway of homocysteine is not only folic acid, but also other pathways, such as other B vitamins-B12. That is to say, in addition to folic acid supplementation, other B vitamins are also needed to reduce the number of homocysteine abnormalities.

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What role does folic acid have?

1, menopausal symptoms

Folic acid can improve menopausal symptoms. Studies have found that taking folic acid and vitamin B 12 can solve many problems caused by the decline of hormone levels, and the effect is very good. And for women, folic acid can delay the occurrence of aging and prevent gynecological malignant tumors and menopausal anemia.

Step 2 keep your breasts healthy

In previous studies, folic acid supplementation was not closely related to the occurrence of breast cancer. The results showed that the incidence of breast cancer in women who drank alcoholic drinks every day increased, and the incidence of breast cancer in women who drank alcoholic drinks every day was significantly lower than that in disobedient women.

3. Protect the cardiovascular system

Folic acid can reduce the level of homocysteine. As we all know, the increase of homocysteine can cause heart disease, and other B vitamins can reduce the level of homocysteine. Folic acid is an important substance. Even if the homocysteine level is normal, folic acid deficiency can also cause peripheral vascular diseases and coronary artery diseases, indicating that the index of normal homocysteine level can be maintained.

4. Promote the development of fetal nervous system.

Pregnant women need folic acid tablets during pregnancy to prevent abnormal development of fetal nervous system. In addition, for the elderly, long-term low-dose oral folic acid tablets can soften blood vessels, increase blood vessel elasticity, and reduce the risk of blood vessel rupture and bleeding to some extent.

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How to prevent cerebral infarction?

1: Proper exercise in daily life is of great benefit to the prevention of cerebral infarction. You should choose the exercise that suits you according to your physical condition, and avoid overwork and strenuous exercise. Proper exercise can enhance the body's resistance and control weight, such as walking, jogging, climbing stairs, fitness gymnastics, Tai Chi and other aerobic exercises.

2. The most important thing to prevent cerebral infarction is to control the high-risk factors that induce cerebral infarction, such as hypertension, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, smoking and drinking, obesity, decreased exercise, hyperhomocysteinemia and fibrinogen. Control blood pressure below 1.30/80 mmHg, blood sugar below 6mmol/L, triglyceride below 2 mmol/L, quit smoking and drinking, and lose weight.

If you want to avoid cerebral infarction, you should drink more water.

No matter what season, drinking water regularly is very good for your health, especially in the dry season. If you can't drink plenty of water, you will have a cerebral infarction. Don't control the amount of water just because you drink too much water, especially when you just get up from bed. Pay attention to drinking water instead of coke, coffee and drinks with boiled water. Drinking these drinks often has a great influence on your health.

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