Circulatory Changes in Cold-Acclimation and Cold Stress

Chiu, Daryl T. J.; Cheng, Kwok-Kew

doi:10.1111/j.1440-1681.1976.tb00622.x

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“…[3][4][5] This is particularly visible in persons who Note: ABF = alternative blood flow; BI = base impedance; CT = crest time; CW = crest width; HR = heart rate; IR = impedance ratio; SR = slope ratio. Note: ABF = alternative blood flow; BI = base impedance; CT = crest time; CW = crest width; HR = heart rate; IR = impedance ratio; SR = slope ratio.…”

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Changes in the peripheral blood flow in legs in response to the cold: own studies using plethysmography

Łastowiecka-Moras

Bugajska

Jurczak

2016

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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The thermal environment in the workplace is an important factor which affects workers' health. During 2011 in Poland, 14,781 workers were exposed to a cold working environment, i.e., 3.8% of persons employed in hazardous work conditions. The aim of this study was to determine the cardiovascular response to continuous (4°C for 60 min) and intermittent (10 min at 4°C and 10 min at room temperature alternately) exposure to the cold in 30 healthy men aged 20-27 years. Peripheral blood flow was assessed with impedance plethysmography. Heart rate and arterial blood pressure were monitored with the Holter system. Having assessed the results, it is difficult to say which kind of exposure has a more severe impact on the cardiovascular system. Longer observation and a more detailed analysis would be necessary (e.g., Doppler echocardiography).

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Changes in the peripheral blood flow in legs in response to the cold: own studies using plethysmography

Łastowiecka-Moras

Bugajska

Jurczak

2016

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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“…(1) Temperature [12,19,[114][115]. Temperature affects blood circulation and blood pressure [116][117][118][119][120], blood vessel constriction [121], peripheral blood flow [122][123][124][125][126], and low temperature is expected to affect the macrophage's patrolling functions [127], innate response and adaptive immune response [114]. T cell, B cells, macrophages, etc.…”

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“…In this experiment, the subjects received a set of clothing with identical thermal insulation and only the subjects' faces were exposed to the cold, but measures were taken for legs. Since the faces are exposed to low temperature, the cold triggers the body to raise blood pressure [116][117][118][119][120] as attempt to improve blood circulation. The raise blood pressure caused some increase in local blood flow in localities in the body.…”

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Proactive Body Temperature Management Protocol and Lifestyle Interventions as Predictable Cures for COVID-19 Disease: Curative Protocols Discovered from a Century of Medical Discoveries

Wu¹,

Zha²

2020

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Based on a century of medical discoveries, we propose a methodology of using lifestyle interventions and proactive body temperature management protocol as prevention and cure for COVID-19 disease. We produce robust evidence to show that lifestyle interventions have a 100% “expected response rate”, with a curative power being one to three orders of magnitude larger than that of a single lifestyle factor determined by clinical trials and can deliver immediate benefits to long-term curative benefits. On basis of a large number of studies, we propose that the local blood flow along the inner surface of the respiratory track works like an anti-viral shield, which is capable of robustly prevent and terminate viral and other infections. Breathing cold temperature from 26 °C to a frigid temperature can dramatically reduce local temperatures along the track and thus cripples the protective shield by reducing local blood flow to as little as 3-10%. A proactive body temperature management protocol (PBTM or PRTPM), which comprises pre-exposure, during-exposure, and post-exposure measures, are capable of boosting innate immune functions, anti-viral defenses, and vital organ functions. We estimate that pre-exposure and during-exposure measures can reduce temperature drops along the tract by 5°C to 20 °C, and that a series of post-exposure measures can increase local blood flow rates along the track by 2 to 20 times. The proposed measures can completely restore the anti-viral shield. All kinds epidemiological data support our estimated curative power that the protocol can prevent 90% to 97% infection incidences and deaths. We show that the protocol is even more powerful than vaccine, and maintaining a reasonable local temperature along the respiratory track is a required condition for delivering and boosting vaccine’s protection.Current medical researches have excluded temperature and air as treatments in all on-going clinical trials. This misplaced priority is an inevitable result of the financial arrangement of all parties in medicine. Such financial arrangement provides too much incentive for medicalization, the key elements of which include finding revenue-making treatments, producing good data for promoting the treatments, and finding more patients for using treatments. Since lifestyle interventions and proactive body temperature management protocol cannot be studied by flawed research model and cannot be patented for monopoly, no entity has incentives to explore their extraordinary benefits. We also found that the reason of failure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic is same as failure to find cures for cancer and AIDS. Several studies imply that best solutions for cancer, AIDS and all chronic diseases are not revenue-generating medical treatments, but things that cannot sold for revenues and things that are born and carried in human genome. Based on a century of medical discoveries in disease causes, we propose for the federal government that the most cost-effective measures are finding and eliminating a large number of disease causes hidden in food production lines, family kitchens, cooking culture, personal cooking habits, home appliances, etc. This is the only way to root out causes for more than 90% chronic diseases incidences.

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