Blood Quality is our blood makeup; our blood chemistry. It is the right balanced amounts of oxygen, nutrients, hormones, enzymes and water, and it is white and red cell activity. It is also normal amounts of cellular wastes in the blood (uric acid, lactic acid, carbonic acid, acetic acid, cholesterol, ammonia, etc). It also means the balanced interaction of these blood elements. It includes immune function; in fact our Blood Quality is our immune system.

Blood Circulation is the activity of our heart and blood vessels, especially the smallest vessels, the capillaries. When some of the capillaries become chronically constricted (as in 90% of American adults) the bloodstream can't feed all the above blood elements to the tissues effectively. Also, metabolic wastes are not cleaned from the tissues effectively, so wastes store in the tissues as toxins. All this produces many chronic health problems.

Lymphatic drainage is considered part of blood circulation because it works with it to clean the cells and tissues. Cells discharge wastes into the interstitial fluid that cells float in. A one-way network of lymphatic vessels removes cellular wastes and eventually empties them into the bloodstream, which delivers them to the systems of elimination (lungs, skin, kidneys and colon). The bloodstream replaces the interstitial fluid, and the cycle continues. This metabolic cleaning process is very important to our health, yet very weak in most people these days.

Each cell needs to be fed just the right quantities of oxygen, nutrients, hormones, water, etc., and cellular wastes and environmental toxins should be collected by the blood and lymphatic capillaries and discharged.

When cells are fed and cleaned effectively, injured or weakened tissues are more easily repaired and the body is protected from infection. But if blood quality or circulation are poor, cells and tissues are not fed and cleaned effectively and symptoms must be produced eventually.

Our modern lifestyle tends to prevent us from having healthy blood quality and circulation, and therefore, the effective feeding and cleaning of the cells and tissues. Weakness in Blood Function is one of the most common mechanisms that produce chronic health problems (symptoms) of many types.

Please read the next page, which is all about Neurological Function.