Lectures on Blood Flow by Dr Peter Rogers

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Lectures on Blood Flow by Dr Peter Rogers

8 Jul 2021

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Dr Peter Rogers has excellent, fast-paced and information rich lectures explaining why blood flow is integral for good health! What is the connection between blood flow and conditions like hypertension, back pain and Alzheimer's?

(3 mins, 2021) Why Improving Blood Flow is The Secret of Healing

An excellent video to grasp why blood flow is called the "river of life!" When we eat unhealthy, we constrict various blood vessels throughout our body! Additionally, we make our blood viscous. What does that lead to? A general breakdown of our entire body — both physical and mental (brain). Why? Because blood flow is critical for healing, immune function, oxygen supply, nutrition supply, and so on.

(6 mins, 2021) How to Improve Blood Flow

For Dr Greger's videos on the subject, see

(8 mins, 2022) Total Body Ischemia & Your Health

(4 mins, 2021) Stress Effect on Blood Flow and The Heart

An excellent video!

(7 mins, 2022) Are Cancer And Dementia The Same Disease?

Why Is Blood Flow Important?

Transcript of the video Why Improving Blood Flow is The Secret of Healing (3 mins, 2022):

Okay, we're going to talk about blood flow. Why is blood flow so important? It's good to have some rules of thumb (heuristics) that you go by because you're going to get asked a question, "so and so -- this patient has a problem; what can we do to help them get better faster?"

[Blood Flow] I can tell you: just about anything you could think of gets better & faster with good blood flow. Blood flow is a river of life! "No woman, no cry; no blood flow you die!" Okay.

Any wound someone has will heal better with good blood flow.

Any fracture will heal better with good blood flow.

Any organ system functions better with good blood flow. Like the brain, for example.

[Spine health, bone health] The muscles: look at a lot of old people. They're all weak. A big part of that is thought to be — you know — sarcopenia. The weakening of the muscles is because of lack of blood supply to their muscles. Just like they got a lack of blood supply, a lot of old people to their brains, their hearts, their spine, they also got it to their muscles. And their muscles atrophy, they become weak and then they fall down and they get terrible spine fractures.

Anyways, this is a unifying concept for good health is: What can one do to improve blood flow? And if you have this idea in your mind, it'll help you for pretty much tons of things you'll encounter from a health and a medical point of view.

[Gregory Sloop, MD] Um, the great Gregory Sloop MD — here's his book: "Blood Viscosity". It's the best book ever. And I've read everything you get your hands on for atherosclerosis. This is the best book on atherosclerosis. "Blood viscosity: Its Role in Cardiovascular Physiology, Pathophysiology and Hematology" by Gregory Sloop MD.

Anyways, according to Sloop, he thinks almost all atherosclerosis risk factors in one way or the other lead to an increase in blood viscosity. They make the blood thicker. That's partly why diabetics have such terrible health and poor immune systems and poor wound healing. Because their blood sticks with all the elevated blood sugar, elevated triglycerides, elevated free fatty acids, elevated advanced glycation end products (AGEs), elevated cholesterols and the secondary hypertension making everything worse.

[Alzheimer's Disease] Okay, here's a quote from Jack de la Torre PhD. Here's his book: a very good book! He's a researcher of Alzheimer's Disease and he calls his book "Alzheimer's — The Turning Point: A Vascular Approach to Clinical Prevention of Alzheimer's." Basically, the point is that almost all of the risk factors for Alzheimer's are associated one way or another with decreased blood supply to the brain. And it's typically on a chronic basis. Think about atrial fibrillation, for example. You think about atrial fibrillation (afib), you think, "oh gee! you form blood clots in the heart — left atrial appendages — toss them to the brain, have a stroke!" But it's more than that. They have chronic under perfusion of their brain. Okay, carotid atherosclerosis — chronic under-perfusion of the brain! Subsequent atherosclerosis into cranial due to excessive salt intake or due to excessive um hypertension they will have — you know — blockages in those small arteries. Decrease perfusion of the brain increases the risk of Alzheimer's.

[Summary] So anyways, anything you want to heal or improve the function of the human body, it will be better when there's good blood flow. So in our next lecture we're going to talk about how do you optimize blood flow. And you're going to find when you get that question, "so and so fell down, has a cut, has an infection, has a wound, has a fracture -- you name it." You tell them how to improve blood supply — blood flow — and that will very often be helpful!

Books

Books: Dr Peter Rogers often mentions these two books in his presentations:

Blood Viscosity (152 pages, 2017) by Gregory D Sloop. Check out a review video by Dr Pter Rogers on Amazon — he's in awe of Dr Sloop's work.
Dr Rogers calls it "the best medical book he has ever read" (and he says he has read hundreds). And the Amazon reviews are pretty amazing: "Masterpiece!", "GENIUS!!!", "Fresh perspective, reader friendly", "Beautifully written! Thorough and yet easy to understand and read". Dr Sloop's website: hh-athero.com has great info! Dr Sloop has a YouTube presentation: The Importance of Measuring Blood Viscosity (97 mins, 2020).
Alzheimer's Turning Point (267 pages, 2016) by Jack C de la Torre.
Basically, there is an ongoing debate in the medical community: Can we see Alzheimer's as a vascular disease (which means that clogged arteries are the main contributory factor)? Dr Greger's videos on the subject which have helped me understand this viewpoint: Alzheimer's May Be A Vascular Disease.

Blood Flow & Heart Disease

Heart Disease (Coronary Artery Disease) is clearly a vascular diseases, and heart disease is the #1 cause of death worldwide. Thus impaired blood flow is the #1 cause of death worldwide — this is widely agreed upon in the medical community. See Blood Flow & Heart Health for presentations by Dr Peter Rogers.

Blood Flow & Hypertension

Hypertension is clearly related to blood flow. See Blood Flow & Hypertension for presentations by Dr Peter Rogers.

Blood Flow & Sexual Dysfunction

Impaired blood flow is the #1 cause of sexual dysfunction. ED (Erectile Dysfunction) is basically clogged penile arteries. This is well known in medical circles. See Blood Flow & Sexual Dysfunction for presentations by Dr Peter Rogers.

Interestingly, female sexual dysfunction is also likely to be clogged arteries — this is not agreed upon but WFPB doctors remind us that the anatomy of both men and women sexual organs is similar at some level — it's blood flow that leads to lubrication, for example. See Atherosclerosis & Female Sexual Dysfunction for more information.

Blood Flow & Cognitive Functioning

Is impaired blood flow the #1 cause of cognitive decline? This is not agreed upon. However, the medical community is warming up to the idea that at least Alzheimer's is essentially vascular in nature and that the root cause is likely impaired blood flow. But Dr Peter Rogers goes a step ahead and explains that all cognitive decline, including both Alzheimer's and dementia, is essentially impaired blood flow!

See Blood Flow & Cognitive Functioning for presentations by Dr Peter Rogers.

Blood Flow & Vision Loss

Is impaired blood flow the #1 cause of vision loss as we age? This is not agreed upon in the medical community. What is agreed upon is that diabetes leads to foot amputations, blindness (diabetic retinopathy) and nerve pain (diabetic neuropathy). But what does diabetes have to do with blood flow? And what about glaucoma, cataract, age related macular degeneration and hypertensive retinopathy — how much of these are related to our dietary choices and essentially impaired blood flow?

See Blood Flow & Vision Loss for presentations by Dr Peter Rogers. He makes the case that the #1 cause of various common conditions leading to vision loss and blindness is impaired blood flow.

Blood Flow & Spine Health

Does impaired blood flow lead to back pain and spinal vertebrae fusing with each other as we age? This is not agreed upon in medical community. But Dr Peter Rogers has fascinating expository presentations that are among my favorites — I've learnt a lot through them. He explains how spinal bones and discs receive nutrition and what happens when blood flow is impaired.

See Blood Flow & Spine Health for presentations by Dr Peter Rogers.

Unifying Lectures

A couple of long presentations by Dr Peter Rogers on Chef AJ show. These multi-hour lectures string together a large number of concepts to present a unifying theory of sorts behind conditions related to blood flow!

(131 mins, 2022) How to Prevent The Risk of Disease