Sentences with phrase «nutrients via blood»

Every growing cell in our body is provided with oxygen and nutrients via our blood vessels.

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The baby's immature system is making the transition from receiving its nutrition via the mother's blood in utero to receiving nutrients through breastfeeding.

Snaking through the nearly 2 - feet - long cord, there's a vein ferrying nutrients and oxygen from mom's blood (via the placenta), plus two arteries carrying oxygen - and nutrient - depleted blood from the fetus back to mom.

Cancer treatments often target tumors by cutting off blood vessels and other nutrient supply routes, so Monje and others are interested to learn whether it may be possible to target nerves via analogous therapies or by simply blocking secreted neural growth factors.

In Ames dwarrf, Snell Dwarf mice, Klotho mice, GHKO mice who have little IGF and GH; and live longer than wild - type; we see that indeed insulin and glucose / nutrient / energy pathways (which create oxidative stress through excessive nutrient via elevated glycation blood glucose creating high glycated albumin and hemoglobin), that aging is acted on by IGF through hormones, GFs, GHs, acting on insulin signals, which act on survival genes (DAF / SIRT / FOXO).

• Elevated nitric oxide levels • Heightened muscle pumps • Increased nutrient delivery • Improved blood oxygen carrying capacity • Quicker recovery between sets via the accelerated clearance of metabolic waste products • Reduced blood pressure • Pro-sexual effects • Enhanced glucose uptake

In fact, the very act of movement helps us assimilate the nutrients we receive via food... Movement stimulates blood flow to circulate and help us utilize the nutrients we consume, and the load that we put on our bones and joints helps us build and maintain bone density (again, allowing us to properly utilize the nutrients we ingest).

The negative effects seem to lie in the capacity of some foods / nutrients to stimulate proliferative pathways that in turn stimulate development of acne — suspect foods include those with a high glycaemic load and milk.11, 43, 44 Other evidence comes from several studies reporting that the prevalence of acne varies significantly between different populations and is substantially lower in non-Westernized populations that follow traditional diets, 45 a common factor among these traditional diets being a low glycaemic load.46 Various studies have provided evidence that high - glycaemic - load diets are implicated in the aetiology of acne through their capacity to stimulate insulin, androgen bioavailability and insulin - like growth factor - 1 (IGF - 1) activity, whereas the beneficial effects of low - glycaemic - load diets, apart from weight and blood glucose levels, also include improved skin quality.44 The clinical and experimental evidence does in fact suggest ways in which insulin can increase androgen production and affect via induction of steroidogenic enzymes, 47 the secretion by the pituitary gland of gonadotropin - releasing hormone and the production of sex hormone - binding globulin.48 Insulin is also able to reduce serum levels of IGF - binding protein - 1 increasing the effect of IGF - 1.49 These insulin - mediated actions can therefore influence diverse factors that underlie the development of acne such as:

Another consequence can be decreased perfusion — the process of moving nutrients around the body via blood in the arteries.