Goodbye VARICOSE VEINS
The causes
Healthy veins carry blood from our feet and legs, where it’s taken on vital oxygen and nutrients, to the heart. But because it’s working against gravity, the blood will try to flow the wrong way. This is prevented by one-way valves that open to let blood through. ‘Varicose veins occur when the small valves in our leg veins fail,’ says Professor Mark Whiteley, a consultant venous
