a bit about how blood moves in your legs and why it might get worse as you age. It all comes down to something called “muscle pumps.”
We have two main types of blood vessels: arteries and veins. Arteries carry fresh, oxygen-rich blood from your heart down to your legs. Once your muscles and tissues use up that oxygen, it’s the veins that carry the used blood back up to your heart to get fresh again. But here’s the thing: veins don’t have their own power to push blood back
