I will tell you about the worst vascular foods that cause dementia, stroke, heart disease, and chronic inflammation. Food is one of the most important factors in health. There are foods we eat that can adversely affect our blood vessels. We will see why it is bad for blood vessels and why it can be the root of all diseases. We will also see how to prevent this and what kind of supplements are good to take.

1. What is the final glycation product?

Let's find out what the final glycation product is. The final glycation product AGE is a substance in which sugar and protein are combined under heating or at a certain temperature. AGE is called "glycatoxin" or "sugar toxin" and is a substance that reacts without the need for an enzyme reaction when sugar and protein meet. It enters our body through two pathways and causes toxicity.
 
The first pathway is through food intake. It is mainly found in foods that are grilled directly over fire at a temperature of 120 degrees or higher, not in boiled foods. When sugar and protein combine in a hot state, the glycated protein that causes toxicity becomes a problem.
 
When you grill, it's a little browned and flavorful, but when this reaction takes place, a lot of AGE sugar toxins are created that cause toxicity to our bodies.

2. Hardening process

When we eat a lot of sugar or when there is a lot of sugar floating around in our blood vessels, there is insulin resistance. When the body temperature, the protein in our body, and the floating sugar meet, they create the final glycation product. It is created through two reactions, one from outside and one from inside the body, and it enters the body and exerts toxicity.
 
These sugar toxins are absorbed in our intestines, about one-tenth of the amount we ingest is known to enter our body, and these sugar toxins bind well to proteins, making them less flexible.
 
Sugar toxins are absorbed from our intestines and float around in the blood vessels, binding to the blood vessels and hardening them. This makes the blood vessels in the brain, eyes, and heart, which are organs, harden and cause inflammation and oxidative reactions, which lead to various diseases.
 
Therefore, if oxidation and inflammation continue to repeat, this AGE sugar toxin eventually becomes a factor that can be the root of all diseases. And it also triggers aging, because there is a lot of protein in the skin layer, and there is data that it binds to the skin layer and triggers wrinkles.

3. Harmful foods

Let's see what kind of foods it's in. In general, even with the same food, when you boil or steam it, the production of sugar toxins is much less, and when you fry it in oil or grill it over fire, the sugar toxins are as much as 100 times more than when you blanch or steam it.
 
Especially, bacon grilled directly over fire is the worst, followed by chicken steak. These are really bad. There is no known standard for how much you should eat or how much you have ingested in terms of the final glycation product.
 
In conclusion, bacon is basically garbage. It's best to avoid eating bacon altogether. Bacon is known to contain carcinogens and is too high in sodium, so it's not healthy, and pork belly is much better. As I said, it's ideal to eat it as a wrap or steamed, and it's best to avoid grilling it over fire or frying it in oil.
 
And you need to reduce your fructose intake, which is found in things like Brink, fruit, juice, ice cream, and snacks. This fructose or sugar creates a lot of final glycation products in our body.
 
And now, it is necessary to do intermittent fasting to increase our body's insulin resistance sensitivity and prevent the sugar level from rising. And another method is to avoid foods that can raise your blood sugar level, which means eating foods with a low GI.

4. Supplements that help

What kind of supplements can help? You can generally see it in two categories. The first is to promote the consumption of sugar in the body and increase insulin sensitivity so that sugar does not float around excessively.
 
There are two types of supplements: those that suppress oxidative reactions to suppress the production of the final glycation product and those that prevent damage to our bodies from the final glycation product. In this channel, dietary fiber, which inhibits the absorption of sugar, and the intestinal environment are important.
 
So, there are ways to take a lot of beneficial probiotics, and then there are omega-3, magnesium, and vitamin B combinations that can improve basic insulin resistance. And now, it is good to create an antioxidant component to prevent oxidative damage to our body and then to prevent damage.
 
In summary, if you have a basic omega-3, magnesium, vitamin B, dietary fiber, probiotics, and antioxidants, it can help. You will get much more benefit from adjusting your lifestyle and being mindful of what you eat than from taking supplements.