The total length of human blood vessels when joined together can circle around the world twice. The smallest blood vessel is called capillary. According to Dr William Li, it is blood vessel of life, and blood vessel of death at the same time.Only under some circumstances, blood vessels of human will grow, such as menstrual cycle of woman, capillaries formed in the placenta during pregnancy,and under tissue healing process, etc...

 

Therefore,human body has a perfect check-and-balance system to regulate angiogenesis. Neither will have the chance angiogenesis happened under or over the baseline.

However someinformation stated that there are more than 70 diseases will cause defect ofthis check-and-balance system. The system cannot normally in right time and right place regulate angiogenesis.

 

According to Dr William Li, deficient angiogenesis will cause problems as below, such as wound cannot heal easily, heart attack, stroke to death, nerves damage, etc.Excessive angiogenesis will cause problems such as cancer, blindness, obesity,Alzheimer's disease, etc.

 

Although those diseases look different in symptoms and presentation, they share a common denominator, ie abnormal angiogenesis. Therefore we need to think whether we can manipulate and combat those diseases through stabilizing and regulating the process of angiogenesis.

 

The mainconcern of this article is “CANCER”,and in fact according to Dr William Li, angiogenesis is one of the majorhallmarks in cancer, every type of cancers.

 

To becontinued!

Source: DrWilliam Li, Angiogenesis, TED Talk
Article Editing: The Nutri Man