His veterinarian only gave him three months to live.

Shut your mouth!

So the body has the ability to regulate the amount of blood vessels that are present at any given time.

So I went back to the biology of angiogenesis, and started thinking

And the bottom curve is the weight of a normal mouse.

Stop the treatment, it gains the weight back.

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And in these situations, angiogenesis is out of balance.

Blood flows through blood vessels.

It's gonna be going initially through a giant vessel.

And the capsules in her blood stream.

Blood runs in the veins.

In other words, we can't create supermodel mice.

You know, where did these things come from?

Well, we'd have to transfuse Charlie with the creature's blood.

There are antiangiogenic treatments that are FDA approved, and if you're a cancer patient, or working for one or advocating for one, you should ask about them.

Now, we know that tomatoes are a good source of lycopene, and lycopene is antiangiogenic.

We can do this because tumor blood vessels are unlike normal, healthy vessels we see in other places of the body they're abnormal, they're very poorly constructed, and because of that, they're highly vulnerable to treatments that target them.

We've got 19 billion of them in our bodies.

like red blood cells.

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Subdural hematoma.

And this outer layer, this is the vasculature, which is incredible, around a human brain.

Thrombosis is the process of a thrombus forming.

End to end, that would form a line that would circle the earth twice.

Again, fairly more complex organs, but by far, the most complex solid organs are actually the vascularized, highly vascularized, a lot of blood vessel supply, organs such as the heart, the liver, the kidneys.

Monsanto has a patent for abiotic stress.

I'll write it out again because I want to make sure we see clearly the difference between someone with compliant blood vessels and someone with non compliant vessels.

So, all these guys over here, these are the true capillaries.

So let's zoom in on one of them....Maybe we can zoom in right over here, that part of the artery.

All the sudden you could have these clotting factors form a clot right over here right at the actual plaque.

But there was something left.

Then you start to take a look at adult life.

Can't seem to find a vein.

Oh,clip that bleeder,Mr. Palmer.

Retract the duct a little more laterally.

What you're watching is a design of a robotic red blood cell, and it does bring up the issue that our biology is actually very sub optimal, even though it's remarkable in its intricacy.

Because it turns out that adipose tissue fat is highly angiogenesis dependent.

And this is an X ray showing you the patent, functional blood vessel.

the man's an extortionist. all right, here's the situation.

And we're now studying the role of a healthy diet with Dean Ornish at UCSF and Tufts University the role of this healthy diet on markers of angiogenesis that we can find in the bloodstream.

And this turns out to be one of our most important defense mechanisms against cancer.

This inhibits abnormal angiogenesis, by 60 percent.

The walls are covered with villi where nutrient absorption takes place.

The heart is taking a quick breather to refill.