BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homocysteine, Gladiator, B Vitamins
4 May 2016
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Gladiator wounds aloud people to study it while the gladiator was alive. William harvey 1578-1967, credited in finding out what the heart does. Heart pumps 2,6 billion times during your life. Much cancer is avoidable, the same with cancer is heart problems with heart (things that cause cancer, also effect heart in almost same way and prevelance) Obesity kills by overworking the heart, you"ll have longer blood vessels, heart can"t really change its shape and can"t maintain the size. Men are 10x higher risk of heart attack than women. Once you hit menopause men stays the same, but women"s chance goes up. Homocysteine is in our body but is usually in small amounts. You can reverse the effect by using b vitamins that convert it into different things (b12) B vitamins supplements do not give a benefit however. Valve function corrected by surgery, a drug cannot change the shape.
