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But blood is also challenging, because it has a very short shelf life, there are lots of different storage requirements, and it's really hard to predict the demand for all of these different blood groups before a patient actually needs something.

But the cool thing is that using this technology, Rwanda has been able to keep more blood centralized and then provide it when a patient needs something to any hospital or health center in an average of just 20 or 30 minutes.

We pull the blood from our stock, which is delivered from the National Center for Blood Transfusion; we scan the blood into our system so the Ministry of Health knows where the blood is going; and then we'll basically pack it into a Zip, which is what we call these little autonomous airplanes that run on batteries.

So today, we're delivering about 20 percent of the national blood supply of Rwanda outside of Kigali.

All of those hospitals only receive blood in this way, and most of those hospitals actually place multiple orders every day.

Because doctors can get what they need instantly, they actually stock less blood at the hospitals.

So although use of blood products has increased substantially at all the hospitals we serve, in the last nine months, zero units of blood have expired at any of these hospitals.

Luckily, the doctors had some blood of her blood type on hand that had been delivered via Zipline's routine service, and so they transfused her with a couple units of blood.

They ended up sending seven units of red blood cells, four units of plasma and two units of platelets.

That's more blood than you have in your entire body.

But when you change those behaviors, your brain gets more blood, you think more clearly, have more energy, your heart gets more blood, as I've shown you.

This is a study: a high-fat meal, within one or two hours, blood flow is measurably less.

And you get a double whammy: you get all these calories that don't fill you up because you've removed the fiber, and they get absorbed quickly so your blood sugar zooms up.

The fiber fills you up before you get too many calories and it slows the absorption, so you don't get that rapid rise in blood sugar.

There's more red after a year on a diet like I would recommend, there's less red, less blood flow after a year on an Atkins-type diet.

Now, a heart attack happens when a blood clot forms in a coronary artery that feeds blood to the wall of the heart.

This plugs the blood flow, and the heart muscle is very metabolically active, and so it dies very quickly, within just a few hours of having its blood flow interrupted.

And in too many people, their illness progresses to the point where the heart can no longer keep up with the body's demand for blood flow.

Our bone marrow, for example, cranks out billions of blood cells every day.

Ejection fraction is simply the amount of blood that is squeezed out of the chamber of the heart with each beat.

It's blood cell-sized.

What you're watching is a design of a robotic red blood cell, and it does bring up the issue that our biology is actually very sub-optimal, even though it's remarkable in its intricacy.

An analysis of this respirocyte, designed by Rob Freitas, indicates if you replace 10 percent of your red blood cells with these robotic versions, you could do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath.

Freitas has a design for a robotic white blood cell.

There are four major conferences on building blood cell-sized devices; there are many experiments in animals.

The blood moving through your arteries.

Venom can also make your heart stop within minutes, or it can turn your blood into jelly.

Here are some examples, some with very catchy but familiar names like "Skittles" and "Fruit Loops," and others with more exotic names like "Dragon's Milk" and "Tiger's Blood" and "Unicorn Puke."

So as an example, chronic exposure to nicotine decreases the flexibility of the blood vessels and changes how the heart responds to acute challenges like stress.

So cutting this already-mutated hemoglobin gene that causes sickle cell anemia won't restore the ability of patients to make healthy red blood cells.

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