A fascinating 2008 study from the University of Calcutta in tie medical journal Biochimica et Biopysica Acta reported for the first time on the zeta potential of red blood cells in diabetics. It’s not a good picture.The researchers described “a remarkable alteration, specifically a progressive deterioration of zeta potential, most pronounced among diabetics with cardiovascular disease. The research […]
Among other things, poorly regulated glucose causes diminished elasticity of red cells and an increased tendency to aggregate. The result: thicker blood, poorer blood flow. A growing awareness exists about the blood viscosity-cardiovascular disease connection, but the link between elevated viscosity and diabetes is largely overlooked even though it has been reported in more than fifty peer-reviewed scientific publications. Blood viscosity can
One main component of diabetes involves a scenario where excess fatty tissue in the abdomen produces inflammatory chemicals that suppress insulin, a hormone that regulates the movement of sugar (glucose) in the cells. The body then becomes more resistant to insulin. This in turn produces more inflammatory chemicals and interference. Blood sugar rises. Add stress to the mix, and you further increase the level
Diabetes is a global scourge of pain, suffering, and premature death thakills an estimated 3.4 million people a year–a number sharply on therise. It contributes to arterial and nerve damage, heart attack, stroke, poorcirculation, foot ulcers, lower limb pain and numbness, weakness in handsand feet, kidney disease, and vision problems. A healthy diet, regular physical
Grounding research by Polish cardiologist Karol Sokal and neurosurgeon Pawel Sokal suggests that the Earth’s energy likely plays a basic role in enabling the nervous system to adapt to the demands of the organism and the environment. As a cardiologist, I have repeatedly treated the human wreckage that stress-acute or chronic sympathetic overdrive can exact.I have applied the best tools
Perhaps one of the most overlooked Earthing dividends–and so beneficial in these stressful times–is the rapid calming influence that takesplace within the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that regulates functions like heart and respiration rates, digestion, perspiration, urination and even sexual arousal. This effect may be one of the first, and possibly the first, of the
Peripheral artery disease is a condition involving reduced blood low to the extremities. It occurs in 5 percent of adults older than fifty and in 20 percent above seventy. Among the common symptoms is pain in the legs. H.M. Kearney, Ph.D. Webster, New York, retired historian: “1 began sleeping grounded in 2010, virtually at the same
The healthy range for zeta potential is between minus 9.3 millivolts(mV) and minus 15 mV, with an average of minus 12.5 mV. In our experiment, two hours of grounding improved the average zeta potential of the ten participants from a rather depressed level of minus 5.28 mV before Earthing to a healthy minus 14.26 mV afterward. Blood
The experiment inspired a formal study to investigate further whether Earthing can indeed influence red blood cell clumping. Electrophysiologist Gatan Chevalier, Ph.D., biophysicist James Oschman, Ph.D., cardiologist Richard Delany, M.D, and I designed a study to measure not only blood clumping but also zeta potential, a term that describes the degree of negative charge on