Can high blood lipids cause headaches?

High blood lipids is a chronic disease that troubles many elderly people. However, in recent years, more and more young people have high blood lipids, and many obese people have high blood lipids. High blood lipids can pose a huge risk to human health and can even cause heart disease in severe cases. Some people with high blood lipids may also experience headaches, but ordinary people don’t know how they are related. So, why does high blood lipids cause headaches?

1. High blood lipids can cause liver damage

Long-term high blood lipids can lead to fatty liver, and when the hepatic artery is damaged by atherosclerosis and the liver lobules are damaged, their structure changes, leading to cirrhosis and damage to liver function.

2. High blood lipids can lead to high blood pressure

After atherosclerosis forms in the human body, it will lead to myocardial dysfunction, angiotensin-converting enzyme will be activated in large quantities, causing blood vessel artery spasm, inducing the adrenal glands to secrete vasopressin, and causing high blood pressure. Once hypertension develops in the human body, the blood vessels will often be in spasm. The endothelium of the cerebral blood vessels is damaged after hardening, leading to rupture and hemorrhagic stroke. The cerebral blood vessels will stagnate in a state of embolic thrombosis, leading to cerebral thrombosis and cerebral embolism.

3. Hyperlipidemia can lead to coronary heart disease

When the human body develops atherosclerosis due to long-term hyperlipidemia, the blood flow in the coronary arteries decreases, the blood vessel lumen becomes narrower, the amount of blood injected into the myocardium decreases, causing myocardial ischemia, leading to angina pectoris and coronary heart disease.

4. High blood lipids can harm coronary arteries

Atherosclerosis is formed when a large amount of lipid proteins are deposited and moved in the plasma, reducing blood flow rate. After becoming rancid through oxidation, they are deposited on the arterial endothelium and adhere to the blood vessel wall for a long time, damaging the arterial endothelium and causing vascular sclerosis.

Patients with hyperlipidemia should pay attention to dietary taboos

1. Egg yolks and animal offal such as liver, brain, and kidneys contain very high cholesterol and should be used as little as possible or not at all.

2. Try to drink less coffee and tea, and avoid taking medications containing caffeine.

3. Avoid fried foods.

4. Drinking is prohibited.

5. Eat less animal fat. Animal fat is high in cholesterol, which can accelerate arteriosclerosis. For example, you should eat less liver, brain, heart, etc.

6. Eat less sweets. Sweets are high in sugar, which can be converted into fat in the body, easily promoting obesity and arteriosclerosis.