Skin improvement with blood - the functions of blood.

PRP (plasma skin enhancement) treatment PRP is a new and advanced treatment for skin improvement. You are being treated with the power of your own blood! As part of these treatments, we will post a series of blogs about blood and connection between blood, beauty and health.

What are the functions of the blood in your body?

The most important functions of blood — the supply of oxygen and nutrients and waste collection. What do we need oxygen for? Oxygen is particularly important for burning nutrients to produce energy. With this energy, the body ensures that we can do everything we need to keep us alive (such as breathing, powering our heart, etc.), but also to do what we want (exercise, pick up a spoon to eat, read this blog, etc.). Just like the car engine needs oxygen to burn gasoline, we need oxygen to “burn” the energy from the various nutrients in our body. We get the necessary nutrients through eating and drinking. Nutrients include amino acids, sugars, vitamins, minerals, proteins and fats. Sugars in particular contain a lot of energy. Our food and drink are broken down into tiny particles by the digestive system. These substances are absorbed into the blood via the intestines and liver and spread through the bloodstream throughout the body to the cells where they are needed. A motor is needed to burn nutrients, and this is found in our cells. However, our engine does not consist of one, but of many small motors (about 2500 per cell) called mitochondria. The body contains literally dozens of trillions of cells, so you can imagine something on the scale at which this process takes place! When we need energy, it is generated by burning the nutrients stored in the cells. The mitochondria require oxygen for this process. By splitting the (nutrient) molecules into even smaller particles, energy is released, which the body uses, for example, to breathe, but also to frown or smile. The process also creates carbon dioxide. The body cannot use this substance, which is why it is removed from the body through the bloodstream by exhalation. Other wastes are carried via the bloodstream to the liver and kidneys, where they are filtered from the blood and broken down and then removed from the body by the bladder and intestines. Other key features of the blood are: immune system via white blood cells as discussed above, the regulation of our temperature (the blood ensures that we are not too cold or too hot) and communications (via hormones that can spread signals via the bloodstream). In our other blogs, we discuss:

• Previous blog: introduction
• The relationship between blood and health part I — dangers to the blood and blood system
• The relationship between blood and health part II — The importance of exercise
• — The link between blood and beauty/old age
• — Healthy lifestyle = healthy blood = radiant aging