When discussing the cardiovascular system, the inflammatory nature of excess weight and unhealthiness, because of excess weight, affects our immune system.
Similar to smoking or diabetes or some other disease processes, obesity increases the inflammation which causes damage to the inside of the blood vessels. Blood vessels are very slippery and so you don’t get plaque formation when they are healthy, but as we age with multiple different types of risk factors, obesity being a very important one, those blood vessels create injured areas on those blood vessels which become sticky and then things like cholesterol and triglycerides begin to stick to those spots on the inside of the blood vessels. That’s how plaque formation begins. This most often occurs anywhere the blood vessels split or turn and so the worst places for this to occur is going to be in the heart arteries as well as the neck arteries and this leads to increased risks like heart attack and stroke.
For the man, one of the most important places that this type of atherosclerosis occurs
is in the penis. This is the number one cause of erectile dysfunction is vascular flow or the inhibition of it. So people who have a relatively healthy weight and don’t have the other disease processes that might create atherosclerosis will have sexual function much later in their life and even if they have some dysfunction, it will be more easily treatable.
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