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"Blood Vessels Blood vessels can be divided into three categories: 1. Arteries, which convey oxygenated blood away from the heart. 2. Capillaries, which are the smallest blood vessels of the body—so small in diameter that blood cells can only pass through them single file. Their cell walls are thin enough to allow nutrients and oxygen to pass through to the cells of the body, and to pick up carbon dioxide along with a certain amount of waste products from the cells. 3. Veins, which convey blood toward the heart, carry de-oxygenated blood primarily loaded with carbon dioxide." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The fluid is transported through the body in lymphatic vessels similar to blood vessels. These vessels connect with the capillaries so that lymph fluid can be absorbed into and out of the bloodstream. The lymph system does not contain a pump like the heart, so circulation of the lymph fluid occurs as a result of contraction of the muscles throughout the body. The flow of lymph fluid can stagnate from dehydration, fatigue, infection, stress, or a lack of physical activity. This may result in lymphostatic edema, and as toxins accumulate various metabolic problems or infections may occur." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"The body is mobilized to fight or flee the situation so it can get back to normal. Skin vessels constrict, and goose bumps appear. Sweat glands pour out sweat. Secretion of digestive enzymes and insulin stops. Digestion halts. The mouth goes dry. Adrenaline and other stress hormones and neurotransmitters flood the body. Bowels and the urinary bladder relax, and their control is often lost. Blood flow to the heart and muscles increases. Voluntary muscles dilate to accommodate powerful action. Blood vessels to the brain constrict." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Problems arise if the vessels grow through the inner limiting membrane into the vitreous humor of the eye, which is constantly contracting and condensing. Often this movement can lead to vessel tear, hemorrhage, and blindness [241, 243]. The annual economic and social burden of medical care and disability due to vision loss and blindness caused by DR is quite large [244] and the only effective medical treatment is laser photocoagulation [241], in which a laser is used to cauterize leaking, newly developed blood vessels that have grown as a result of DR." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The organs of the immune system, known as the lymphoid organs, are stationed throughout the body and are connected with one another and with other organs of the body by a network of lymphatic vessels that are similar to blood vessels. Immune cells, or white blood cells, are conveyed through the lymphatic system in a clear fluid that bathes the body's tissues. Lymph nodes are small, bean-shaped structures that are laced throughout the body along the lymphatic routes." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"These vessels contain lymph, which is a pale, thick fluid consisting of fat-laden liquid and white blood cells. Lymph nodes, tonsils, bone marrow, spleen, liver, pancreas, lungs, and the intestines are also part of the immune system. As part of an immune response, white blood cells are mobilized and deployed to areas of the body requiring their assistance. Lymph nodes, which contain filters, swell because the lymphatic vessels drain infection by carrying it to the nearest area where an immune response can be organized. The lymph nodes most commonly recognized are in the neck and groin areas." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "The immune system maintains its own system of circulation via the lymphatic vessels, which permeate every organ in the body except the brain. The lymphatic system is sometimes referred to as the body's other circulation and elimination system. These vessels contain lymph, which is a pale, thick fluid consisting of fat-laden liquid and white blood cells. Lymph nodes, tonsils, bone marrow, spleen, liver, pancreas, lungs, and the intestines are also part of the immune system." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"A bigger dose of contrast flows up the catheter, and suddenly an entire section of Crofton's coronary arteries appear on the screen in black, with three main branches leading to smaller and smaller vessels. "There's a lot of disease there," says Altschuler. Crofton's vessels narrow in several places where plaque, an accumulation of gunky, inflamed cells, has built up. The worst stenosis is blocking a main branch of an artery almost completely; blood can barely squeak by." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In this disease, the vessels swell and leak liquid into the retina, blurring the vision and sometimes leading to blindness. diabetic ketoacidosis—High blood glucose with the presence of ketones in the urine and bloodstream, often caused by taking too little insulin or during illness. It can be life threatening. diabetic kidney disease—Damage to the cells or blood vessels of the kidney. Often fatal five years after beginning dialysis. diabetic nerve damage—Damage and pain to the nerves of a person with diabetes. Nerve damage may affect the feet and hands, as well as major organs." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The body stores lipids as energy and burns them when needed, macrovascular disease: Any disease that affects the large blood vessels and is characterized by an accumulation of fat and blood clots in those vessels. The three types of macrovascular disease are cerebrovascular disease, coronary disease, and peripheral vascular disease, metformin: The generic name for an oral antidiabetic medication (trade name Glucophage) that decreases the amount of glucose manufactured by the liver and helps make the body's cells more sensitive to insulin. mg/dL: Milligrams per deciliter." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Lymph passes from capillaries to lymph vessels and flows through lymph nodes that are located along the course of these vessels. Cells of the lymph nodes phagocytize, or ingest, such impurities as bacteria, old red blood cells, and toxic and cellular waste. Lymph fluid can also collect other impurities such as heavy metals and pesticides and drug residues stored in bodily tissue. Once loaded with toxic waste, the compromised lymph must exit your body. What can't be eliminated in your urine must pass out through your colon." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The most important thing to understand is that atherosclerotic plaque blankets all the vessels in the heart, not just the ones where the plaque is detectable by angiograms. Bypassing and/or removing only the most diseased ("clogged") vessels does not address the very serious risks associated with all of the shallow and non-obstructive lipid deposits in the vessels that aren't "clogged." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

"He discovered that the small blood vessels that fed Matthew's heart had been scarred and grown thicker, and that the heart itself had sustained damage and become enlarged because it had to work harder to compensate for the impaired vessels. As 1 Dr. Dragovic told the Oakland Press, "This was a gradual development. There were changes that occurred in the small blood vessels that supply the heart muscle." He added that, "Over a period of time, there is a buildup of changes. Finally, these changes get to the point that they become incompatible with life." Never had Dr." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Inflammation of the Blood vessels and Spontaneous Bruising If inflammation occurs in the walls of the blood vessels, the vessels become more permeable, as we have already seen. When the inflammation is not too serious, and mainly affects the tiny blood vessels (capillaries) in the skin, the result is likely to be urticaria (hives) (see pages 50?2). In such circumstances it is mainly fluid that leaks from the blood vessels, with few cells making an escape. (The approach to dealing with this form of urticaria is much the same as that described on pages 114-18." - Jonathan Brostoff M.D., Linda Gamlin, Food Allergies and Food Intolerance: The Complete Guide to Their Identification and Treatment (Get the book.)

"The result is less strain on the vessels in the body and the brain. There are a number of mechanisms at work here. First, contracting muscles during exercise releases growth factors such as VEGF and fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2). Aside from their role in helping neurons bind and promoting neurogenesis, they trigger a molecular chain reaction that produces endothelial cells, which make up the inner lining of blood vessels and thus are important for building new ones." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"What this means is that coenzyme Qiq is "endothelial cell friendly" to the lining of small vessels and serves as a gatekeeper protector. It is interesting to note that in the year 2005 the most common cause of high blood pressure is a complex relationship of insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome often referred to as Syndrome X. Future research may show that coenzyme Qiq can help to neutralize this poorly understood "Syndrome X," which is the major cause of vascular dysfunction, vasoconstriction and eventually high blood pressure, and even type 2 diabetes." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "We would check him out to make sure his other vessels were clear, control his blood pressure with a drug, and clear any fluid retention present with a diuretic. After assuring him that all the damage that could be done had been done, we'd send him home with a handful of prescriptions. Within two years, he'd be back in the hospital with congestive heart failure. He hadn't sustained a second heart attack. His two good arteries remained wide open—something just went wrong with the rest of his heart." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"He dismantled the Faraday cage and the water vessels and removed them from his lab, then recorded the air temperature of the place where the cages had been. Even though the experimental vessel was no longer there, his thermometers continued to record periodic oscillations in temperature of 3-5 °F. Although this influence decayed very slowly over time, Tiller's laboratories appeared to have undergone some long-term thermodynamic transformation. The energy from intention appeared to "charge" the environment and create a domino effect of order." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"If these vessels are wide open, blood flows easily. If they're narrow, it's harder for the blood to flow through them, and the pressure inside them increases. High blood pressure may result. When this happens, the heart is strained and blood vessels may become damaged. However, the heart, brain and kidneys can handle increased pressure for a long time. That's why you can live for years without any symptoms. And experiencing no symptoms doesn't mean there's no damage. Also, blood pressure is a function of arteries flexibility, the more flexible the arteries the lower the pressure." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"The spread of rat-borne diseases, however, was wider than what could simply have been reached by Rome's merchant vessels, though it is still "mappable" with a decent amount of common sense. Rats travel better overland in carts than on horseback, and sure enough, the sometimes eccentric pattern of rat appearances, particularly in Gaul, are closely associated with those Roman toads paved well enough to accommodate carts." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Bypassing and/or removing only the most diseased ("clogged") vessels does not address the very serious risks associated with all of the shallow and non-obstructive lipid deposits in the vessels that aren't "clogged." The vast majority of patients who undergo these interventions do not experience fewer new heart attacks or achieve longer survival,13 and the procedures themselves expose the patients to additional risks of new heart attacks, strokes, infection, encephalopathy, and death." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.)

"After 10 minutes, when the water in the shaken container had settled down, he placed samples of dinoflagellates in the two vessels. Those algae exposed to the shaken water suddenly increased their photon emissions—a sign of stress. The algae appeared to be aware of the slightest change in their environment—even a historical change—and responded with alarm.21 Another of Popp's colleagues, Eduard Van Wijk, a Dutch psychologist, wondered how far this influence extended. Did a living thing register information from the entire environment, and not simply between two communicating entities?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"The average human heart beats approximately 100,000 times daily—equaling more than 35 million times a year—and pumps six quarts of blood through approximately 12,000 miles of arteries, vessels, and capillaries every 24 hours. Our hearts appear to be so vital to who and what we are that they are the first organs to form in our mothers' wombs, even before our brains. In engineering terms, when the success of an entire project depends upon a single piece of equipment, that component is given the status of "mission critical." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"You'll recall that lymph is the clear fluid filled with immune cells that moves around the body in a series of vessels, delivering nutrients and collecting cellular waste while helping to destroy pathogens. The deeper you breathe, the more you can achieve this effect. It has long been known that exercise stimulates this movement of lymphatic fluid, but the role of breathing wasn't entirely recognized until technology provided the means to photograph lymph flow. This direct observation shows that deep breathing causes the lymph to shoot through the capillaries like a geyser." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Then you head for the back country and keep going until you reach a place where there are so few cooking vessels that you can pay for a night's lodging with an empty tomato can. Then you go to the village marketplace and watch like a hawk for everything brought in to be sold. You almost make love to the natives. You get invited to dinner. And finally you get the plant or seeds of the plant you want." Even in the early twentieth century, it wasn't about plunging into the untracked wilds. It was about getting to the market." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Lymph: Lymph, a clear fluid filled with immune cells called lymphocytes, moves around the body in a series of vessels that parallel the paths of the veins. Lymph delivers nutrients as well as collects cellular waste and helps destroy pathogens. INHALE, EXHALE The lungs go into action when we breathe, and their main function is gas exchange to the blood supply, which is connected to the lungs through tiny capillaries in the air sacs or alveoli. The lungs also filter and clear foreign particles that are in the approximately 10,000 liters of inspired air each day." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Use small vessels. Drop your dinner plates and big glasses off at a charity, and buy smaller plates and tall, narrow glasses. You're likely to eat significantly less without even thinking about it. Make snacking a hassle. Avoid tempting foods. Put candy bowls, cookie jars, and other temptations out of sight. Hide them in the cupboard or pantry. Wrap tempting leftovers in an opaque container. Buy smaller packages. When given large packages of spaghetti, sauce, and meat, Wansink's subjects consumed 23 percent more (about 150 calories) than when they were given medium packages." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"This process can happen anywhere in the body, and it has a great impact on the health of the blood vessels that feed the heart muscle—the vessels that cause heart attack when blocked by plaques, which are scab-like thickened areas that grow inside the walls of arteries. When I spot someone with obvious signs of metabolic syndrome?usually a middle-aged person with a big stomach—I know that a lot of inflammation is going on in the person's body, and that he or she is at high risk of heart disease and high blood pressure." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"It mentions that holy sadhus in Borgampad carry ritualistic water vessels, called kamandals, made from a fruit resembling female butt-cheeks. This fruit, worshipped by a cult, grows only in the Seychelles, where it is called the coco-de-mer. Armed with a name, I immediately uncover some online images. Not only is the lady fruit real, but it is easily the sexiest fruit in the plant kingdom." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Early pathophysiological changes in cerebral vessels predisposing to stroke. Clin. Hemorheol. Microcirc. 29, 291-294. 258. Joseph, J. A., Fisher, D. R., and Strain, J. (2002). Muscarinic receptor subtype determines vulnerability to oxidative stress in COS-7 cells. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 32, 153-161. 259. Joseph, J. A., Fisher, D. R., and Bielinski, D. (2006). Blueberry extract alters oxidative stress-mediated signaling in COS-7 cells transfected with selectively vulnerable muscarinic receptor subtypes. J. Alzheimers. Dis. 9, 35-42. 260. He, L. M., Chen, L. Y., Lou, X. L., Qu, A. L., Zhou, Z." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

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