Is Blood Stickier than Water? – Dr Matt Breeds – Human and Animal Chiropractor

Here is a thought, – when you were a cavemen (or just a more primitive version of you),
We had to scavenge for our food. If we wanted to eat a big feast of meat from freshly caught game, we would have to go out and hunt. I’m not sure if any of you has ever been hunting, but it is a stressful thing to do. Adrenaline rushes, you see that Lion, Boar, Rabbit, Kangaroo, Goat, Bison, or whatever you wanted to catch. You had to chase it down, risk your own life to kill it, there is likely to be a struggle, you may even give up and it will chase you back. In the end it used to be Kill or be Killed.
This Process would rarely last more than a few hours. Then we would be able to relax. Adrenaline and the stress hormones in would blood stream will reduce, and the feel good serotonin hormones can increase and you feel good. You could rest better, digest your food better and sleep well at night.

What if in the process of the hunt, the animal, bit or scratched you? – Your body had prepared for this.
A natural response to your adrenaline and stress hormones increasing in your blood stream is for your blood to slightly thicken and release clotting factors – so in case you got cut, you wouldn’t bleed to death quickly. A scab would form and you could continue the Hunt or retreat and repair. Your blood would thicken and your Blood pressure would increase

These days food is abundant for us – We don’t need to Hunt. But we do have stress in our lives.
Instead of hunting an animal and having a short peak in our stress ( and thickening of your blood) followed by a proper relaxation (and thinning of our blood), we have a bigger hunt on our hands, (no more tigers, lions and buffalo). Instead we have 30 year mortgages, unhealthy mental and emotional relationships, Chronic disease, polluted food air and water and often dis-satisfying work environments. These factors cause chronic stress, hence chronic thickening of our blood. this leads to chronic high blood pressure, increased risk of cardiovascular disease. stroke and other conditions. Instead of relaxing properly, you elect to take blood thinners long term which have their own side effects (not to mention becoming a life long customer of a pharmaceutical company)

Do you see the problem here?
In our Western Society it has become increasingly difficult to learn how to properly deal with stress, financial, social, physical, and environmental. A common theme for dealing with this is to talk about it, re asses your priorities and goals in your life and make sure that what your are sacrificing for what you want is worth the cost. Christians pray, Buddhists meditate, and there are many ways to properly relax. Just make sure you are doing something and living a sustainable lifestyle with your mental stress levels because it has huge effects on your physicality. It will save you money and lengthen your life. Who doesn’t want that!