How often do you think about the amazingness of your body?
Things such as…
The tacos you ate this weekend get broken down into molecules invisible to the naked eye so those molecules can be utilized by your cells to make proteins (the critical building block of your body). WOW.
The air you breathe gets transported as oxygen molecules inside red blood cells (again, invisible to the naked eye) throughout your entire body AND the oxygen is delivered to each and every cell so the cell can make the energy (ATP) that keeps you alive. DAMN!
Most of the magic that happens inside our bodies occurs at a microscopic level.
In order for this microscopic magic to happen, a super critical component is microcirculation. In normal-speak, this just means the blood circulation inside your body that occurs in blood vessels (arteries/veins) only big enough to let one red blood cell through at a time. These type of blood vessels are called capillaries. Without microcirculation, all the magic described in the first paragraph can’t happen.
When microcirculation gets damaged, the function of the body gets damaged.
We can’t assimilate the molecules we need to make protein so our bodies start to break down. We can’t get oxygen to an area so that area becomes diseased and dysfunctional. On the flip side, healthy microcirculation keeps even the smallest, farthest reaches of our body functioning well.
Our bodies are incredibly amazing, and microcirculation is crucial to our survival!
We’ll skip the super interesting biochemistry lesson to describe exactly how all this magic happens, but you get the idea. Healthy microcirculation is where the magic happens.