All Life is in the Blood

     As we approach the Easter Weekend with all the colored eggs, chocolate bunnies, and endless baskets of candies, I wanted to take a moment to focus your thoughts on the true meaning of the holiday.  Misperceptions of Easter have been propagated even since the recognition of the Christian Church. For centuries, people looked at Christ's day of crucifixion as a tragic event as if it served no purpose as it was called "Black Friday".  Many misguided groups, throughout history, have even tried to label others as "Christ killers" thereby propagating a gospel of hate rather than love.     As a physician, when I have treated the most simple to the most critical of illness, I give medications that ultimately need access to the blood.  For simple illness, I might give oral medications or sub-lingual medications that will be absorbed into the blood stream through the blood vessels in the mouth or the stomach.  For more severe illness I might pres...

     Have you ever woken up in the morning later than you should have and forgotten to eat breakfast trying to get out of the door? Later, you feel sluggish, faintish, with low energy, and even sleepy.  Later you eat and seem to feel much better and can accomplish the tasks for the remainder of the day.  Have you ever had to fast a few meals or even a few days?  Doing so, can cause a cascade of metabolic reactions within your body to compensate for a lack of food (energy source).  Some of those reactions can make you feel down, fatiqued, foggy, sleepy, and with symptoms of stomach aches and headaches.      Energy can be stored as sugars within the liver, as fats through out the body, and proteins in muscles and tissues.  It is the blood that is the sole source of transport of all those sources of energy.  It is also the transporter of all the regulatory hormones that govern those sources of energy.  It is the blood that e...