The white and the yellow of an egg harden when it is boiled.
Milk turns sour and forms tiny curdles when a few drops of
lemon juice are squeezed into it. Milk turns into yogurt when
a culture of microbes in added to it. Those are three examples
of how proteins solidify when they are:
1. Heated (as in boiling of an egg).
2. When acids are added to them (as when
citric acid in lemon juice causes milk
to form tiny
curdles).
3. When enzymes in microbes work on them (as
in the making of yogurt).
The proteins in the circulating
blood are solidify and form microclots when exposed to:
1. Excessive
oxidative stress caused by lifestyle and biologic stresses.
2. Organic acids produced in excess during
metabolic stresses.
3. Enzymes of microbes (bacteria and yeast)
and toxins produced by viruses and parasites.
Blood clots and unclots at all times. But
there is a limit to its ability to clear microclots. Blood
thickens and becomes sluggish and lymph becomes stagnant when
that happens.
Oxidative Coagulopathy
Oxidative coagulpathy is a term for
formation of microscopic blood clots in the circulating blood.
Blood clots and unclots at all times. In health, microscopic
clots formed in the blood are readily dissolved so that such
clots are seen infrequently in freshly prepared blood smears.
When microscopic clotting is speeded up by any of the factors
mentioned above, excessive microclots accumulate in the blood
and are lodged in different parts of the body, choking the
blood supply to that part and causing accelerated oxidative
injury. This is called oxidative coagulopathy. (Ref: Ali M,
Ali O. AA oxidopathy. The Journal of Integrative Medicine
1997;1:6-112.)
Oxidative Lymphopathy
Lymphopathy is a term for formation of
microscopic clots in lymph, the pale white fluid that flows in
lymphatic channels. Like circulating blood, circulating lymph
also clots and unclots at all times. In health, like blood
microclots, lymph microclots also unclot readily so that
excess microclot formation does not occur. When excessive
oxidative coagulopathy occurs in the circulating blood, lymph
also curdles excessively. Curdles of oxidized lymph stagnate
in the muscles and choke muscle cells, causing severe muscle
pain and trigger points. (Ref: Ali M. Oxidative regression to
primordial cellular ecology. The Journal of Integrative
Medicine 1998;2:4-49.)
FIBRO IS REAL
If you are a fibro canary, you know that
fibromyalgia is real. If your physicians doubt that, they
cannot help you. Be kind to yourself and find another
physician who understands this problem. The road to recovery
from fibromyalgia is often long and difficult. You need not
make it much more difficult. |
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