With the winter Olympics coming to an end, you might have noticed that conversations around injuries are starting to pile up. Our athletes are coming home with gold medals, but they’re also coming home with debilitating injuries. These injuries were once a lifetime sentence for the price of being an Olympian, but that’s about to change.
Environmental specialist Douglas Mulhall and author of The Calcium Bomb, the first popular book on calcification that hardens arteries. Douglas has uncovered that there is much more than what meets the eye when it comes to the why and how we lose the elasticity in our fibers and then the process to restore them.
“As the parade of Olympic injuries continues especially with high profile U.S. athletes, there is new hope for speeding up recovery from one of the most common debilitating injuries, ripped ligaments and tendons. Until now, regenerating the damaged elastic fiber that powers those tendons has been a long process, and it’s hard to stop the hardening that often accompanies that.
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However, two new technologies used to repair aneurysms in arteries and regenerate the substance known as elastin, in wounds shows potential promise of restoring the elastic in our bodies,” says Mulhall .This topic also ties into the lives of everyday Americans as well. The aging process along with a plethora of other environmental factors also takes their toll on the elasticity of tendons and ligaments within our bodies. Affecting everything from our ability to take home the gold in men's slopestyle or even getting out of bed in the morning. The longevity of our bodies is about to change forever.
