Oxygen is an essential part of converting food energy to “people” energy. Oxygen is essential to life.
Oxygen is transported in our blood by Red Blood Cells (RBCs). For RBCs to move efficiently through your arteries, veins, and capillaries to deliver oxygen they must not clump. Clumping blood increases your risk of developing poor circulation, heart disease, and possibly a stroke.
Healthy blood holds an electrostatic charge. That charge causes RBCs to repel each other and not clump. The electrostatic charge in the blood is called the Zeta Potential, which can be measured and observed in all water-based liquids.
Zeta Potential is a well-known phenomenon in the paint industry. A high Zeta Potential in a paint formula ensures that the pigments will distribute evenly, giving the paint an even colour tone.
Zeta Potential in your blood is increased with ionic surfactants. A surfactant is a substance that will reduce the surface tension of water. A lower surface tension of the water in your blood means less risk of RBC clumping. Not to mention the clumping of other blood components, such as proteins.
The ionic surfactants we need to have in our blood are the minerals magnesium and potassium.
Using my Olympus medical microscope, I can observe blood clumping and, indirectly, Zeta Potential in a patient’s blood. Most of the blood I look at has clumping RBCs. “But why? I take magnesium and potassium,” many of my patients tell me. The simple answer is that under stress, our kidneys will allow the loss of both magnesium and potassium. And who is not under stress today?
At your next office visit, we can examine your live blood and see if your blood and proteins are clumping.
