Can Touching Your Toes Test Your Arteries?

Not only is inflexibility linked to arterial disease, but improving flexibility decreased arterial disease. "The control group consisted of people who stretched. They were not expected to show any change in cardiac function, but over the course of 13 weeks they in fact increased the pliability of their arteries by more than 20 percent. HEALTH | December 23, 2009 Well: Phys Ed: Can Touching Your Toes Test Your Arteries? By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Researchers have found a clear correlation between inflexible bodies and inflexible arteries in subjects older than 40.