Blood Is So Much More Than You Think, Here's What's Inside

Blood is the ultimate travel companion in your body, and everyone's got some. But what is blood even made of?
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Not only does blood carry out many important functions for our survival, it can also give us clues about diseases that might help us survive even longer.

Take a moment to really think about all the blood in your body: All the blood in your heart, all the blood in your arteries, your veins, and all your smaller blood vessels.

Thats a lot of blood, 5 whole liters, in fact.

Made up of white blood cells (leukocytes), red blood cells (erythrocytes), plasma, platelets (thrombocytes), and more, blood is incredibly valuable to our physiology and existence as humans.

Your blood is a diverse and multi-faceted substance that in addition to delivering oxygen to the rest of your body, removing toxins, and regulating body temperature, also holds clues to diseases that affect more than just your blood.

Find out more about what makes blood...blood in this episode of Human. And keep an eye out for next weeks episode where well take a deep dive into blood types.

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Special delivery: McMaster physicists design super-human red blood cells to deliver drugs to specific targets within the body
https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/special-delivery-mcmaster-physicists-design-super-human-red-blood-cells-to-deliver-drugs-to-specific-targets-within-the-body/
A team of physicists from McMaster University has developed a process to modify red blood cells so they can be used to distribute drugs throughout the body, which could specifically target infections or treat catastrophic diseases such as cancer or Alzheimers.

Hemoglobin and Functions of Iron
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/hemoglobin-and-functions-of-iron
Iron is an essential element for blood production. About 70 percent of your body's iron is found in the red blood cells of your blood called hemoglobin and in muscle cells called myoglobin.

Scientists Find Surprising Age-Related Protein Waves In Blood
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/05/785065299/scientists-find-surprising-age-related-protein-waves-in-blood
Scientists know that if they transfuse blood from a young mouse to an old one, then they can stave off or even reverse some signs of aging. But they don't know what in the blood is responsible for this remarkable effect.
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