Let's Prevent Blood Clots Causing Stroke and Heart Attack

When blood clots (Fig. 1) circulate in our body and reach the brain, stroke is caused.
 
Blood clots cause life threatening condition, but recently it has turned out that there is a method to remove blood clots.
 
In our body, there is substance that dissolves blood clots so that we can dissolve blood clots by ourselves.
 
The substance in our body is t-PA.
 
Actually medication using t-PA is practicalized in the field of Emergency medicine.
 
A woman with the age of 50s was brought to the ER because of stroke. She was not able to raise her arm and not able to make a fist with the hand. 2 hours after the administration of t-PA and catheter treatment, her condition was dramatically improved by dissolving blood clots by t-PA, and she could raise her arm and make a fist.
 
If you can secrete t-PA that is produced in our body well, you can have the constitution that is hard to form blood clots causing stroke or heart attack.
 
When bleeding from a wound, a scab is formed by solidifying blood. Blood has the solidifying function to stop bleeding. Blood clots are the same as a scab. The solidifying function is important even when there is no bleeding, because the inside of blood vessels is always damaged by the smallest things and what covers up the damage is blood clots.
 
What makes it easy to form blood clots?
 
One day of a 43 years-old woman’s life was observed and after some events, her blood flow was checked. When she was eating breakfast with her son, he knocked over a glass and spilled the water. Her blood flow after this event was shown in Fig. 2. When she found a cockroach made of rubber that was placed by a staff of this experiment, her blood flow was checked as shown in Fig. 3.
 
Blood clots are easily formed by slight nervousness, stress or fear.
 
Long time ago, human beings were living by hunting. They had to fight against a bigger prey and that heightened the risk of injury, so when they felt the risk of injury, their blood was prepared for it in advance, meaning blood was easily solidified.
 
How to increase t-PA
 
The method to increase t-PA dissolving blood clots is walking.
 
The point is fast walking. When you walk fast, the blood flow becomes faster and the inside wall of the blood vessel receives strong stimulation and t-PA is secreted more and the power of t-PA is elevated.
 
There is a research result that 3 months’ aerobic exercises made the speed to dissolve blood clots became faster by about 20 %.
 
If you make your stride the length of your shoe wider, you can walk as fast as recommended.
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