Disrupted blood flow can affect healthy lifestyles!
A blood clot is your body's natural response to a cut, scrape, injury or trauma.
To stop blood loss, your body manufactures a protein called fibrin.
Fibrin has a thread-like appearance and quickly forms a mesh to create a plug or clot over the wound site.
Within seconds, normal clotting occurs and prevents blood loss by sealing off the damaged blood vessels.
And after the bleeding is over, you no longer need the blood clot. So your body produces a special enzyme called plasmin to target and normally dissolve fibrin clots. How important is plasmin?
Well, think about this: While your body manufactures over 20 enzymes to clot your blood—you only produce one enzyme to dissolve blood clots—and that's plasmin!
Unfortunately, as you get older, you may be less able to produce plasmin and break down blood clots optimally.
This means your blood may have additional fibrin and flow less fluidly.
Imagine having a small tube of water and adding thousands of tiny pieces of thread. Eventually, the water is going to get all clogged up!
Now, imagine that tube is your vein. And the water is your blood. Can you see how an overabundance of fibrin can affect optimal circulation?
Without sufficient plasmin to break up the fibrin, it makes it difficult to support balanced clotting. And this can cause some issues with circulatory function!
Unhealthy clotting can significantly impact circulatory health. You can't predict what kind of trouble it's going to cause you.
Unhealthy clotting can slow down healthy circulation... affect blood flow to your smaller vessels... cause less-than-optimal flow to your brain, lung or heart... and can impact your entire body!
