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 "If the clot becomes large enough, it can restrict blood flow. This means not enough blood gets to the tissue downstream, and the tissue suffocates. If the blood vessel with the clot feeds the muscle of the heart, or is in the brain, the result is a heart attack or stroke respectively. But not every lesion will lead to an atherosclerotic plaque. Normally, the cells that line the blood vessles can prevent clotting. i--1
Atherosclerosis
Blood flows through your arteries like water through a hose.
Blood vessels (arteries) deliver oxygen and nutrients to organs, muscles and bones."- Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
 "On the physical side, stress activates the sympathetic leg of the nervous system and the release of stress hormones that amp-up production of adrenaline and divert blood flow to the large muscles. The body needs this power because it "thinks" it has to run away from or fight something. This is the so-called "fight or flight" response. When you are in this response mode, blood flows more to the heart and large muscles and correspondingly less to the digestive system and other vital organs that are not immediately necessary for a fight or flight."- Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) |
 "Angina is a form of exercise-induced chest pain caused by inadequate blood flow to a portion of the heart muscle (myocardium). Myocardial blood flow (perfusion) normally increases to support the nutritional demands of exercising. Angina results when more is demanded than the blood supply to that portion can support, usually because flow through one or more coronary arteries is compromised in the setting of atherosclerosis. The underperfused portion of heart muscle is near death because of inadequate oxygenation."- Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "However, until recently the villain was said to be the plaque itself, which directly or indirectly blocks blood flow to the heart muscle, thereby causing angina if not a myocardial infarction. Today's revision of this theory is that the younger, smaller plaque is prone to developing abnormalities that allow for blood clots to form. The blood clots break off and do their evil downstream, blocking blood flow to the heart muscle and causing infarction. The large, mature occluding plaques develop slowly enough to allow for collaterals to compensate." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) |
 "Nicotine—constricts blood flow to the brain; cigarette smoke contains four thousand toxins111 and leads to depression.'9
All these drugs damage your brain. Addiction to any of them seriously damages it.The more often you partake of these mood-altering substances, and the longer you use them, the more damage you do. Occasional, moderate use is harmless. Regular use is a guarantee of premature brain aging and mood disorders.
Other Drugs of Abuse
Newer brain-imaging studies such as SPECT scans, which look at brain function and blood flow, clearly show the harmful effect of substance abuse.2"- Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) |
| "Stress activates the sympathetic leg of the nervous system and the release of stress hormones that amp up production of adrenaline and divert blood flow to the large muscles. The body needs this power because it "thinks" it has to run away from or fight something. This is the so-called fight or flight response. When you are in this response mode, blood flows more to the heart and large muscles and correspondingly less to the digestive system and other vital organs that are not immediately necessary for a fight or flight." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) |
 "A recent scan shows not only normal heart function but also that blood flow has normalized to areas in which it was once poor. Another big difference: He can now run his opponents on the tennis court into the ground.
Pasta Without Guilt
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Can't live without pasta? I've tried every whole-grain, soy, and imitation pasta out there, but I have to thank the Hungry Girl website (www.hungry-girl.com) for turning me onto an important breakthrough in noodle technology: shira-taki."- Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "We inserted two more stents, but scans revealed poor blood flow to one-third of his heart muscle. After being released from the hospital, Jed came back to my office. "Let's start again," he said. He began Diet Evolution that day. I also prescribed supplements to augment his diet—there was no time to lose. Six weeks later, Jed's triglycerides were one-third their previous level. His LDL ("bad") cholesterol followed suit. More important, his HDL ("good") cholesterol, and specifically a subgroup of HDL that actually scours arteries had doubled." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) |
 "Bioenergetically, Energetic Star 6 correlates to blood flow, and the related Infoceutical may help in this regard. In addition, this Star, as a communication pathway, links to the tissue of ligaments, tendons, and cartilage, so it might be implicated bioenergetically in arthritis and other diseases of these tissues. It also correlates to a host of antiinflammatory hormones."- Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "Both the opposing magnetic forces and the nonlinear spiraling dynamics of blood flow may contribute to blood circulation, in a sense causing the blood to partially "pump" itself, so that the heart does not have to function as the sole pump. Infotmation distribution in the body, according to the NES model, occurs by all three routes: electromagnetism, phonons of various frequencies, and electrons. These are the "real" information transfer mechanisms, but the information itself is part of the body-field dynamics, the realm of the "virtual." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "But when you exercise, these changes have a purpose— namely to shift blood flow from your mouth and gut to your muscles. You may not be running from a wild animal, but you're channeling blood—and the oxygen it carries—to the muscles you're using to run, bike, lift weights, or whatever exercise you've chosen. The more blood is sent to the muscles, the more oxygen is delivered, resulting in longer and higher performance exercise. So when you exercise, autonomic activation is not uncomfortable. Moreover, as you exercise at higher intensities, the ANS's response to exercise shifts down a gear."- Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "Your body is set to deal with these minor orthostatic stresses and does so by adjusting heart rate and blood pressure, so that blood flow to the brain remains normal. But certain patients—very often with complaints of chronic fatigue and achiness—don't show these normal reactions. For reasons researchers are still studying, these patients instead develop POTS, POSH, or both of these physiological abnormalities while stating that they feel a lot worse when they stand up." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "This symptom is known as orthostatic intolerance, and our working idea is that orthostatic intolerance may lead to reduced blood flow to the brain, which may produce chronic fatigue. While nothing is known about the physiological processes producing POSH, quite a lot is known about POTS." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
 "These enlarged fat cells that you have due to excess weight secrete the aforementioned substances into the blood at levels that ultimately begin to damage the circulatory system and impair blood flow. This impairment can ultimately lead to developing diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and even certain types of cancer."- Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) |
 "But injecting patients with a vasodilator to open up the blood vessels causes blood flow to increase, and systolic blood pressure rises. Inject patients with a placebo and essentially equivalent physiological changes take place.78
A study from the 1950s is even more dramatic. It involved a surgical procedure which became common for controlling the pain of angina (chest pain due to inadequate blood flow to the heart). The procedure was known as internal-mammary-artery ligation."- Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) |
| "For instance, in the brain, fMRI measures blood flow, volume, and oxygenation and so can see how different parts of the brain become active as the person whose brain is being imaged carries out different tasks. An fMRI machine is able to create three-dimensional images of body tissues by exciting the protons in our cells. Protons have magnetic properties, so they can be thought of as tiny biomagnets. They are part of the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, and hydrogen is part of the trillions of water molecules in our bodies." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "They claim that it also helps to maintain healthy blood pressure levels, increases blood flow in coronary arteries, relieves arrhythmia, and prevents intestinal muscle spasms. It has been found to act as an antimicrobial agent against at least 140 infectious diseases, among them: anthrax, athlete's foot, and urinary tract infections, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, hepatitis, viral meningitis, pneumonia, salmonella, smallpox, tuberculosis, vaginal yeast infection, and many more. Olive leaf extract is taken in capsule form.
Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree oil is made from Australian tea tree leaves."- Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Whereas traditional saunas heat the air and skin surfaces, the fir waves of infrared saunas penetrate beneath skin layers, creating a deep heating effect on tissues, muscles, and fat. As blood flow increases to cool the body, a cardiovascular conditioning and calorie-burning effect occurs and sweat is produced. Since many toxins are stored in body fat, as fat cells are heated they release toxins into the sweat which is then eliminated via the skin." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Therefore, anything that restricts blood flow, such as congestion in the liver, causes a backpressure and consequent inflammation and swelling of the rectal veins, either internally or externally. To prevent hemorrhoid conditions, one needs to adopt a healthful lifestyle, have regular exercise, and detoxify the bowel. For relief of hemorrhoid pain, a suppository-sized piece of raw white potato can be inserted into the rectum and changed as needed." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) |
 "For example, it might help mobilize the immune system's army to quell an infection, demand a change in posture if a foot falls asleep, direct blood flow to the heart when we exercise, or focus on digestion after a meal.
All animals have a network of chemical and electrical communications that allows their brain to direct biological pathways throughout their bodies. But, unlike any other animal, we have more control over them.
How? Through consciousness, analysis, and active thought. These are all evolutionarily newer brain functions, also referred to as the higher brain."- Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) "It's also reducing blood flow to your brain's prefrontal lobes where planning and conscious problem solving take place. These defensive responses would be well and good if you were a caveman and there was a tiger to run away from or a hostile neighboring tribe to fight. But these are not healthy responses when sitting in an airplane seat for four hours, unless, of course, there's a tiger or a hostile tribesman sitting in the seat next to you. The first step is to recognize that your unconscious intentions are triggering an internal voice that might be saying: "I don't have any control." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) |
| "The Heart as Imprinter
The conventional view of the heart is as a pump, that through its strong muscular contractions it drives the blood flow of the body. You might be surprised to know that some researchers take issue with this view. They feel that from a purely mechanical point of view, the heart is neither designed solely as a pump nor is it a very efficient pump.4 What NES research has shown is that on the virtual level, the heart is a lot more than simply a pump.
In embryological development, the heart is among the first organs to form and the first to work." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
 "It contains flavonoids such as rutin, which helps lower bad cholesterol levels and maintain proper blood flow. Buckwheat has lignans, such as entero-lactone, which may protect against breast cancer and heart disease. It contains the beneficial antioxidants vitamin E, tocotrienols, selenium, phenolic acids, and phytic acid.
Home Remedies
The Chinese Army feeds buckwheat to its soldiers because they believe it gives them more strength and stamina. The Hopi Indians gave their women an infusion of the whole buckwheat plant to stop bleeding after giving birth.
Throw Me a Lifesaver!"- David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) |
 "One of the major concerns when treating inflammation is capillary blood flow, so the RICE (rest, ice, compression, and elevation) treatment method is usually recommended.
As the smallest blood vessels in the body, capillaries are responsible for carrying oxygen and nutrients to the cells and removing waste. After an injury some of these capillaries may be damaged, making them incapable of carrying fluid to and from the damaged tissue. This leads to fibrin build up and blockage "walling off" the damaged area. The result is pain, swelling, redness, heat, and loss of function."- Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) |
 "It maintains blood flow to our brain so that we can think on our feet during emergencies. People with low aldosterone complain of dizzy spells when they get up quickly and drowsiness if they have to sit upright or stand too long. You can spot a person with low aldosterone—they are the ones falling asleep at the exciting movies. When your aldosterone is low, you usually feel best lying flat, and you may find yourself announcing when you come home after a long day, "I just need to put my feet up."- Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Headaches and moodiness were coming on in the days before her cycle, but she understood that this was "normal." Her blood flow had become heavy and more crampy, and her bleeding was somewhat erratic—spotting, then heavy with cramps, followed by a day of no bleeding and then more spotting. When I examined her, her Chinese pulses were very weak and choppy, her hair was thinning, her face and fingers looked puffy, and she had tenderness around her upper belly on both sides. Blood tests showed a mild anemia and a low-normal magnesium of 4.4 ng/dL (the normal range is 4.0 to 6.4 ng/dL)." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
 "But this figure is accurate only for a subset of patients, those whose arteries are significantly blocked and who have already experienced either a full-blown stroke or a transient ischemic attack, a kind of ministroke, or temporary loss of blood flow to part of the brain. Epidemiologists estimate that left untreated, three out of ten people who fall into this high-risk category will suffer a stroke within five years. Undergoing carotid endarterectomy reduces their risk to one in ten."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
| "Without adequate blood flow, the affected tissue dies. Bedsores are most commonly found on the hips, shoulder blades, buttocks, sacrum, and heels of comatose patients, the bedridden, and paraplegic patients. The best way to prevent bedsores is to turn or move patients regularly and ensure that their skin is clean.
Ulcers can also occur as a result of poor circulation (particularly with diabetes), infections of the skin, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Supporting the digestive and immune systems, controlling inflammation, and improving circulation to the affected areas is essential." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Once in the bloodstream, protease hydrolyzes (digests) the fibrin network and enhances blood flow. Additionally, these same proteases have been known to stimulate phagocytes (cells that ingest foreign particles and debris) and accelerate elimination of work by way of the lymphatic system." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) |
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