Do Not Forget The Red Blood Cells!
Red blood cells are essential for delivering nutrients to all of your body.
They travel to every single area in your body, some with greater flux and capabilities (like the lungs), while other with more resistance (like ligaments). R
Why Are Red Blood Cells Like A Donut?
Maybe you’ve looked at a red blood cell before (which is more spherical), but wondered, “why do red blood cells look like a donut?
This is something called Zeta Potential (the german scientist who discovered this called it “van der Waals Forces”), it is the charges around the red blood cells. R R
I discuss Zeta potential in another post called “You are negative, and that’s a positive thing”.
You can probably guess what happens to red blood cells when they lose their Zeta Potential… they look all blobby and they agglunate (stick together). R
Cholesterol Sulfate
The red blood cells carry a vast amount of their negative charge via cholesterol sulfate. R
Sulfur groups have the ability to be highly electronegative, which helps with all of that.
To create cholesterol sulfate, it requires having cholesterol lipids in your diet (hard to do as a vegan), sulfur groups in your diet (discussed in sulfur section), and sunlight to activate the cholesterol sulfate.
This is a paramount trio, which we will discuss right after the break…