Majid Ali, M.D.

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Formerly, Associate Professor of Pathology (adj.), College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia University, NY
Formerly, President of Staff and Chief Pathologist, Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, NJ
Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England - Diplomate,
American Board of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Diplomate, American Boards of Environmental Medicine
Past President Capital University of Integrative Medicine

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SLUGGISH BLOOD AND STAGNANT LYMPH
Oxidative Coagulopathy and Oxidative Lymphopathy

    The white and the yellow of an egg harden when it is boiled. Milk turns sour and forms tiny curdles when a few drops of lemon juice are squeezed into it. Milk turns into yogurt when a culture of microbes in added to it. Those are three examples of how proteins solidify when they are:

1.    Heated (as in boiling of an egg).
2.    When acids are added to them (as when citric acid in lemon juice causes milk
to form tiny curdles).
3.    When enzymes in microbes work on them (as in the making of yogurt).

The proteins in the circulating blood are solidify and form microclots when exposed to:

1.    Excessive oxidative stress caused by lifestyle and biologic stresses.
2.    Organic acids produced in excess during metabolic stresses.
3.    Enzymes of microbes (bacteria and yeast) and toxins produced by viruses and parasites.

    Blood clots and unclots at all times. But there is a limit to its ability to clear microclots. Blood thickens and becomes sluggish and lymph becomes stagnant when that happens.

Oxidative Coagulopathy
    Oxidative coagulpathy is a term for formation of microscopic blood clots in the circulating blood. Blood clots and unclots at all times. In health, microscopic clots formed in the blood are readily dissolved so that such clots are seen infrequently in freshly prepared blood smears. When microscopic clotting is speeded up by any of the factors mentioned above, excessive microclots accumulate in the blood and are lodged in different parts of the body, choking the blood supply to that part and causing accelerated oxidative injury. This is called oxidative coagulopathy. (Ref: Ali M, Ali O. AA oxidopathy. The Journal of Integrative Medicine 1997;1:6-112.)        

Oxidative Lymphopathy
    Lymphopathy is a term for formation of microscopic clots in lymph, the pale white fluid that flows in lymphatic channels. Like circulating blood, circulating lymph also clots and unclots at all times. In health, like blood microclots, lymph microclots also unclot readily so that excess microclot formation does not occur. When excessive oxidative coagulopathy occurs in the circulating blood, lymph also curdles excessively. Curdles of oxidized lymph stagnate in the muscles and choke muscle cells, causing severe muscle pain and trigger points. (Ref: Ali M. Oxidative regression to primordial cellular ecology. The Journal of Integrative Medicine 1998;2:4-49.)

FIBRO IS REAL
    If you are a fibro canary, you know that fibromyalgia is real. If your physicians doubt that, they cannot help you. Be kind to yourself and find another physician who understands this problem. The road to recovery from fibromyalgia is often long and difficult. You need not make it much more difficult.

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