Skin treatment with blood, why is that so good? (part 1)

PRP (plasma skin enhancement) treatment PRP is a new and advanced treatment for skin improvement. You will be treated with the strength of your own blood! As part of these treatments, we will series or blogs posting about blood and the connection between blood, beauty and health. Honest about being beautiful: the biology behind aging aging We all have in common that we want to look beautiful and stay healthy for as long as possible. One of the most important steps in the process of achieving this goal is to have a good understanding of how our bodies work and why we lose our youthful beauty as we age. Hence the pieces you'll see here in the next few weeks. They will be about how your body, your health and your beauty go hand in hand.

blood

We start with the basis of the relationship between body/health/beauty; namely blood. What do we actually know about our own blood? It's red, runs through our veins and keeps us alive. But what exactly is blood? What function does it have in our body and what influence does blood have on our health and beauty?

The Biology of Blood

Blood consists of three parts: 54% blood plasma, 45% red blood cells, and 1% white blood cells. Blood plasma: plasma is the liquid component of blood and thus forms the substance in which blood cells can move through the body. Plasma consists of approximately 92% water. The other 8% consists of salts, proteins, fats and sugars, but also bad waste. Red blood cells: We can imagine the red blood cells as tiny red sealed donuts. The red blood cells are made by the body in the bone marrow. It is the red blood cells that give the blood its red color. This is due to the substance hemoglobin. Hemoglobin makes up about 90% of the red blood cell makeup. Hemoglobin is a very important substance for humans because it can attach oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) to itself. To give you an idea, you have many trillions of red blood cells in your body (one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000). Your body produces about two and a half million red blood cells per second. White blood cells: For about every 700 red blood cells in the body, there is one white blood cell. Our white blood cells (there are 6 different types) mainly have the function of fighting infection and disease for us. They form a kind of army within our body. Through the bloodstream, the white blood cells search for intruders such as bacteria and viruses, to kill them in various ways and keep us healthy.

3. The bloodstream

The blood moves through the body through the bloodstream. This is a system of veins and arteries that reaches all over the body. To ensure that the blood can reach everywhere, you need — to put it irreverently — a pump. That pump is our heart. The beating of our heart (an average of 72 times per minute and 100,000 times a day!) ensures that the blood is pumped through our body. About 7,200 liters of blood flow through the heart in a day. An adult body has about 5 liters of blood. The heart pumps oxygen-poor (but carbon-dioxide-rich) blood to the lungs. Through an enormous network of blood vessels in the lungs in combination with breathing, the blood is “refreshed”. The oxygen in the air that we breathe (the air around us consists of approximately 21% oxygen) binds to the hemoglobin in the red blood cells by osmosis. At the same time, red blood cells lose their carbon dioxide, which is then exhaled. The oxygen-rich blood travels from the lungs back to the heart and is then pumped throughout the body. In the bloodstream, there is a certain pressure below which blood is pumped through the veins — blood pressure. A healthy blood pressure for an adult is around 120/80 mm Hg. However, these figures vary by person and age group. The first number (120) is the pressure in the blood that is pumped from the heart around the body, and the second number (80) is the pressure of the blood that travels back to the heart. It's rare to have low blood pressure, but high blood pressure is common. In our next blogs, we'll discuss:

• The functions of blood
• 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 = aging beautifully