Sentences with phrase «other blood flow»

These two supplements share a lot of the same bioactives (proanthocyanidins) and studies with grape seed extract confirm improvements in blood flow, but rather than many other blood flow enhancing agents we use (L - citrulline for example) grape seed extract is both a good antioxidant and reduces leg swelling (which is common among individuals with impaired mobility).

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I still don't understand how a population of people (African Americans) who fought so hard to obtain the same rights as everyone else can be so against other people who have the same blood flow as they do, are deserving of the same rights they obtained, and who should be recognized as equals as well.

This blood - filled cavity will eventually either thrombose (clot) enough to seal the leak or rupture out of the tougher tissue enclosing it and flow freely between layers of other tissues or into looser tissues.

Such foods have long been linked to artery blockages that cause inadequate functioning of not only a man's heart, but also his other vital organs, whilst also slowing down the flow of blood to their you know where.

On the other hand, a vegan diet can actually help boost sexual performance, get our blood flowing and keep the hormones we need to feel horny alive.

According to Cleveland Clinic: «In addition to having antioxidant qualities, research shows that flavanols have other potential influences on vascular health, such as lowering blood pressure, improving blood flow to the brain and heart, and making blood platelets less sticky and able to clot.»

The human body requires specific degrees of pressure to help maintain proper blood circulation, as well as the flow of other bodily fluids.

Although the largest contributor to menstrual pain is uterine contractions that inhibit the flow of blood from getting to the uterus» lining, other causes include such things as bloating and an elevation in leukotrienes that many believe to be an underlying cause.

If the pain is too severe, seek medical advice, as severe contractions can reduce blood flow to the uterus causing other problems later.

By squeezing the blood out of the legs, fresh blood full of oxygen and other nutrients is encouraged to flow into the legs.

With between 20 - 30 mm Hg graduated compression put on the legs, these socks stimulate blood flow and help treat swelling and other conditions such as spider veins commonly associated with the job of teachers.

Glad Rags offer cotton reusable overnight pads as well as pantyliners as well as other sizes of pads for menstrual and postpartum blood flow.

While in early pregnancy cramping can simply be because of the increased blood flow to your uterus, other times it can signal that the baby could be in danger.

VITAMIN E: Protects body's store of Vitamin A, tissues and fat from destructive oxidation, and breakdown of red corpuscles; strengthens capillary walls; regulates menstrual rhythm; prevents loss of other vitamins; aids blood flow to heart; lowers blood cholesterol and fatty acids; vital to cell health; regulates protein and calcium metabolism.

Basically, some mothers nipples are more sensitive than others and the nerves in them cause the blood to stop flowing to the nipple when the baby is sucking.

Other benefits include increased blood flow to the placenta (s), reduced blood pressure, and potentially higher birth weights for the babies.

When a baby is in utero, they are used to the constant motion and sounds from your heart beats, blood flow, and other bodily functions.

While they don't have definite answers, besides having good genes, Kawas said, the answer is probably a combination of being resilient to Alzheimer's Disease and also that they did not develop other dementia - causing conditions, such as microscopic infarctions that occur when blood flow is blocked from certain regions of the brain and hippocampal sclerosis, which causes neuron loss.

In other animal studies, he observed that pancreatic juices break down fats and starches and that certain nerves control blood flow by triggering veins to constrict or dilate.

During your time in Texas in the mid-1980s, you made one of your first big discoveries with positron emission tomography, which uses radioactive markers to monitor blood flow, among other functions.

Cardiac arrest — an electrical malfunction in the heart that causes an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) and disrupts the flow of blood to the brain, lungs and other organs — is a leading cause of death.

The resulting lack of adequate blood flow can damage heart muscle and other tissues by depriving them of oxygen.

Hyperlipidemia, or raised levels of cholesterol and other fats in the blood, is associated with erectile dysfunction in men, because the build - up of fats in blood vessel walls can reduce blood flow to erectile tissue.

The researchers traced blood flow — and, with it, functional connections — between the hypothalamus and other parts of the brain.

When warned their breathing was about to be restricted, the most resilient participants — SEALs and adventure racers, among others — showed a burst of blood - flow activity in an area of the brain that registers sensations in the body, called the insular cortex.

Now scientists have built a flexible nanogenerator out of cellulose, an abundant natural material, that could potentially harvest energy from the body — its heartbeats, blood flow and other almost imperceptible but constant movements.

Just as elephant seals restrict blood flow to their nonessential tissues during deep dives, blood flow is interrupted in humans during organ transplantation, stroke, heart attack and other injuries.

That's the conclusion of a groundbreaking study into human expressions of emotion, which found that people are able to correctly identify other people's feelings up to 75 percent of the time — based solely on subtle shifts in blood flow color around the nose, eyebrows, cheeks or chin.

Activation of NOTCH1 by blood flow causes a domino effect, triggering numerous other genes in the network to turn on or off, resulting in suppression of inflammation and calcification.

Eight different regions displayed extra activity — in other words benefited from increased blood flow — when dealing with imagining the future, including Brodmann's area, the medial posterior parietal cortex and the posterior cerebellum, among others.

In the first type, coronary heart disease, the blood vessels to the heart become blocked by fat and other substances, decreasing blood flow to the heart.

About 6 million patients are seen in EDs annually for chest pain or other symptoms suggestive of myocardial ischemia (decreased blood flow to the heart).

In their recent PNAS paper members of the Imperial College team reported that the presence of LSD was linked to a boost in blood flow and functional connectivity between the brain's primary visual cortex and seemingly unrelated brain networks that mediate other sensory inputs as well as higher - level processes including emotion.

During cardiac arrest, the heart stops pumping effectively, and blood stops flowing to the brain and other vital organs.

«When other portions of the brain circuit related to speech were also affected according to our blood flow measurements, we saw more severe stuttering in both children and adults,» said first author Jay Desai, MD, a clinical neurologist at CHLA.

In this patient, both are malfunctioning: Blood is flowing from the atria to the ventricles, as it should, but it is also leaking back the other way.

He has suggested that such sensory crossover occurs normally in the limbic system, the most primitive, subconscious part of the brain, but only synesthetes, due to quirks in blood flow or some other anomaly, are aware of it.

Here, the image shows the stark effects of hand trauma: no blood flows to the fourth finger, whereas small vessels are clearly visible in the other digits.

Less blood flows to the digestive system and other organs that do not assist in fleeing or fighting, producing dry mouth, motor agitation, sweating, pallor, enlarged pupils and over the long term, insomnia.

The models would allow cardiologists and surgeons to tailor surgery for each patient based on individual anatomy, blood - flow patterns, and other factors.

When the parasympathetic system is active, the bowel and other non-muscle organs receive good blood - flow, the pupils constrict, and the glands all function well and secrete their various compounds.

The other gene linked to the disorder, BMPR2, is thought to cause PAH by ultimately promoting growth and multiplication of smooth muscle cells in the pulmonary artery, thereby restricting blood flow.

So Stoléru and other scientists have switched to a faster method, functional MRI (fMRI), which monitors the flow of blood to active neurons by measuring levels of oxygen in the brain.

Smart drugs are supposed to work in one of two main ways: either by increasing blood flow to the brain, or boosting the levels of one or other of the neurotransmitters thought to play a part in learning and memory.

«It is thought that the short - term benefit of adrenaline in improving coronary blood flow may occur at the expense of other organs,» said Dr. Lin.

Using an optical fiber implanted in that region, the researchers were able to stimulate the primary motor cortex near where the stroke had occurred, and then monitor biochemical changes and blood flow there as well as in other brain areas with which this region was in communication.

Since blood flows throughout the body, acting as a medium for providing oxygen and other nutrients, and drawing waste products back to the excretory systems for disposal, the state of the bloodstream affects, or is affected by, many medical conditions.

Such studies don't absolve general anesthetics, and researchers are investigating other potential POCD culprits, such as reduced blood flow to the brain during surgery.

It usually causes no symptoms until middle or older age but as narrowing and hardening of the arteries accelerates, they choke blood flow, causing pain and other serious cardiovascular complications.

And Belle is right: Patients with sickle cell disease and other serious blood conditions rely on donors to keep their blood flowing and hearts beating.