VeinPC™ and The Human Circulatory System
Blood flows through 60,000 miles of arteries and veins, supplying oxygen and nutrients to and waste products from each of the one hundred trillion cells in the body. Our blood and the network of vessels it travels through are the transport system that delivers essential nutrients to all tissues of the body. A network of healthy blood vessels that includes arteries, veins and capillaries is essential for transporting blood to all tissues of the body. Of these, the most important are the capillaries. All other segments of the vascular tree serve the ultimate aim of getting adequate blood flow through the capillaries to the individual cells. In its passage through the thin walls of the capillaries, the blood gives up nutrients to the tissue cells and takes away waste products resulting from cell metabolism. Without proper microcirculation of blood, nutrients essential to optimal health are not efficiently delivered to the sites in the body where they are needed to do their work – making you feel your best. Proper cellular metabolism affects our energy level, immune response, vitality and ultimately, your entire state of well being.  A healthy circulatory system is just that important.

VeinPC™ contains authentic OPC obtained using extraction methods developed and perfected
by Dr. Jack Masquelier in Bordeaux, France. This clinically proven OPC has been shown to improvethe delivery of nutrients in the blood to every tissue in the human body, including the brain. OPC has been proven to protect, strengthen and repair blood vessels and particularly the capillaries responsible for nourishing our body.

The Importance of a Healthy Circulatory System
Our human circulatory system is a system of vessels that become progressively smaller as it delivers blood to the cells and then progressively larger as blood returns to heart. Such a system permits a large surface area for exchange between the tissues and the blood in the region of the capillaries. Circulation of the blood is so important that if the heart discontinues beating for only a few minutes, death will result.

The blood vessels are arranged so that they continually carry blood from the heart to the tissues and then return it from the tissues to the heart. Blood vessels are of three types: the arteries (and arterioles) carry blood away from the heart; the capillaries exchange material with the tissues; and the veins (and venules) return blood to the heart.

Blood moves much slower through the capillaries than it does in the aorta. This is important because the slow progress allows time for the exchange of molecules between the blood and the tissue cells.

Arteries and Arterioles

Arteries have thick walls made of collagen and a thick middle layer of elastic and muscle fibers. Significant research exists that shows OPC’s ability to improve and protect the interior walls of the arteries, acting to keep them smooth and supple. Healthy arterial walls are essential to a healthy blood flow.

In fact, one theory of aging focuses on the fact that the collagen molecules of connective tissue develop increased cross-linkages with age, and that resulting rigidity decreases tissue functioning. It’s not difficult to imagine how this aging change in collagen - were it to occur in the large arteries - would also enhance the rate of development of arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. OPC’s ability to prevent cross-linking in collagen fibers is well documented.

Arterial walls are so thick that the walls themselves are supplied with blood vessels. The arterioles are small arteries just visible to the naked eye composed mostly of smooth muscle fibers. Whether arterioles are constricted or dilated affects blood pressure. The greater the number of vessels dilated the lower the blood pressure.

Capillaries

Arterioles branch into small vessel called capillaries. Each one is an extremely narrow, microscopic tube with a wall composed of only one layer of endothelial cells. Capillary beds are a network of many capillaries and are present in all region of the body.
The capillaries are the most important part of a closed circulatory system because exchange of nutrient and waste molecules takes place across their thin walls. Oxygen and glucose diffuse out of a capillary into the tissue fluid that surrounds cell, while carbon dioxide and ammonia diffuse into the capillary. Since it is the capillaries that serve the needs of the cells, the heart and other vessels of the circulatory system can be thought of as a means by which blood is conducted to and from the capillaries.

At any given moment, approximately 5 percent of the total circulating blood is flowing through the capillaries. Yet it is this 5 percent which is performing the ultimate function of the entire system, namely, the exchange of nutrients and metabolic end products. (Some exchange also occurs in the very small venules, which can be viewed as extensions of the capillaries.) All other segments of the vascular tree subserve the overall aim of getting adequate blood flow through the capillaries. The capillaries permeate almost every tissue of the body; no cell is more than 0.01 cm from a capillary. Therefore, diffusion distances are very small, and exchange is highly efficient. There is an estimated 25,000 miles of capillaries in an adult person, each individual capillary being only about 1 mm long.

Capillary Exchange with the Tissues

Depending on the tissue or organ, blood enters the capillary network either directly from the arterioles or from vessels known as metarterioles which connect arterioles and venules directly.

The blood transports oxygen from the lungs and nutrients from the intestine to the capillaries where they enter tissue fluid. Here it also takes up carbon dioxide and nitrogen waste (i.e. ammonia) given off by the cells and transports them away. Carbon dioxide exits the blood at the lungs and ammonia exits at the liver eventually ending up in the kidneys in the form of urea where it is excreted.

When arterial blood enters the capillaries it is bright red because the red cells are carrying oxygen. It is also rich in nutrients that are dissolved in the plasma. By means of differences in fluid pressure between the inside and outside of the capillary and an elaborate filtration process, large substances such as red cells and plasma proteins remain behind, while small substances such as water and nutrient molecules leave the capillaries and enter the tissue fluid.

OPC regulates capillary permeability, thereby stopping fluid, protein and blood cells from seeping out while still allowing oxygen, carbon dioxide and other nutrients to pass through. This is partly to OPC’s ability to enhance the action of
Vitamin C.

OPC also strengthens capillaries, improving the ability of capillaries to perform their critical function of nourishing our body. Capillary fragility means that the walls of the capillaries are so thin or weak they cannot hold the blood within them. Even slight bumps or bruises break these weakened blood vessels allowing blood to escape into the tissues. It is this bleeding under your skin that causes the black and blue appearance of a bruise. Whenever the capillary lining is weak or broken, the leakage of protein across the capillary walls into the interstitial space results in edema (swelling). The fluid accumulation in a blister is an excellent example.

Capillary fragility can be a serious medical problem if it results in hemorrhaging, stroke, heart attack or blindness resulting from damage to the retina of the eye. Less serious effects of capillary fragility include easy bruising, varicose veins, spider veins, poor night vision and numbness or cramping of the legs. Under rigorous scientific testing, OPC has demonstrated an ability to improve capillary fragility.

Veins and Venules

Veins and venules take blood from the capillary beds to the heart. First, the venules drain the blood from the capillaries and then join together to form a vein. Varicose veins are irregular weaknesses and swelling in veins near the surface of the skin in the lower extremities. The vein walls become so distended at normal hydrostatic pressures that the valves become incompetent and there is a backflow of blood from the deep veins through connections to the veins at the surface. This condition is often very painful.

In human studies, OPC has been proven to significantly reduce the pain associated with varicose veins while substantially improving the conditions that could lead to a furtherance of varicose veins.

Within the extraordinary body of clinical research performed with OPC, the most stunning has been the research proving OPC’s ability to support a more efficient functioning of the circulatory system. Through its proven capacity to improve the integrity of the entire circulatory system — and particularly at the capillary level where health-giving nourishment is delivered to the body — OPC has established itself as an essential nutrient toward achieving optimal health. It is the singularly most important reason why VeinPC™ contains and delivers therapeutic levels of clinically proven OPC in every capsule.

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