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Most mammal mothers can expel or reabsorb embryos if required, but in humans, once the fetus is connected to the blood supply, severing that connection can result in hemorrhage.
As it grows, a fetus's ongoing need for resources can cause intense fatigue, high blood pressure, and conditions like diabetes and preeclampsia.
As these hormones travel through your blood stream, they easily reach your blood vessels and heart.
Adrenaline causes your heart to beat faster and raises your blood pressure, over time causing hypertension.
Cortisol can also cause the endothelium, or inner lining of blood vessels, to not function normally.
In the search for alternatives, the industry, on a massive scale, has reverted to plant-based alternatives like soy, industrial chicken waste, blood meal from slaughterhouses and so on.
As you can see in this lab test, the exact same creatinine level, the concentration in the blood of the patient, automatically produces a different GFR estimate depending on whether or not the patient is African-American.
He wrote in a medical journal, "It is the red vital blood sent to the brain that liberates their minds when under the white man's control, and it is the want of sufficiency of red vital blood that chains their minds to ignorance and barbarism when in freedom."
So when you eat any carbohydrate-rich food, the sugar level in your blood, normally about a teaspoon, goes up.
So foods high in starch, like crackers and white bread, are digested easily, quickly releasing a whole bunch of glucose into your blood, exactly what would happen if you drank something high in glucose, like soda.
These foods have a high glycemic index, the amount that a particular food raises the sugar level in your blood.
Soda and white bread have a similar glycemic index because they have a similar effect on your blood sugar.
But when you eat foods high in fiber, like vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, those indigestible beta bonds slow the release of glucose into the blood.
When sugar moves from the digestive tract to the blood stream, your body kicks into action to transfer it into your tissues where it can be processed and used for energy.
When you eat and your blood sugar rises, insulin is secreted into the blood.
The degree to which a unit of insulin lowers the blood sugar helps us understand something called insulin sensitivity.
The more a given unit of insulin lowers blood sugar, the more sensitive you are to insulin.
The pancreas still sends out insulin, but cells, especially muscle cells, are less and less responsive to it, so blood sugar fails to decrease, and blood insulin continues to rise.
That involves a constellation of symptoms, including high blood sugar, increased waist circumference, and high blood pressure.
Water isn't only in our blood.
When it reached the kidneys, it creates aquaporins, special channels that enable blood to absorb and retain more water, leading to concentrated, dark urine.
Increased dehydration can cause notable drops in energy, mood, skin moisture, and blood pressure, as well as signs of cognitive impairment.
Whereas the dehydrated brain amps up the production of antidiuretic hormone, the over-hydrated brain slows, or even stops, releasing it into the blood.
Placebos seem to be capable of causing measurable change in blood pressure, heart rate, and the release of pain-reducing chemicals, like endorphins.
In some cases, viruses spread further, even into the blood and vital organs.
When you stop eating, your liver can take up much of the iron in your blood, and since iron is essential for bacterial survival, that effectively starves them.
Most of this energy comes from carbohydrates that our body digests into glucose, or blood sugar.
A high glycemic food, like white bread, causes a rapid release of glucose into the blood, and then comes the dip.
Blood sugar shoots down, and with it, our attention span and mood.
Exercising, especially when we're young, has all sorts of health benefits, like strengthening our bones, clearing out bad cholesterol from our arteries, and decreasing the risk of stroke, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
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