The aims of therapeutic apheresis are: a) extraction and elimination from plasma of disease mediators or disease carrying media, b) replacement of deficient factors, and c) improvement of the function of the reticuloendothelial systems and certain inflammatory mediators.
From work that we have done in our research laboratories as well as reading about the work of other investigators, I conjecture that part of its benefit is through the improvement of the function of the energy powerhouse in the cells called the mitochondrion.
Exercises stimulating improvement of the function of muscles affecting the foot, the tibia, and the femur, as well as the pelvic girdle and the trunk, should be continued.
Many of their protective effects, including an improvement of the function and redox state of immune cells in unhealthy or aged subjects come from their properties as powerful antioxidant compounds.
Thus, their beneficial effect in the improvement of the function of hypothalamic-pituitary axis is possibly due to their ability to bind to ERs in rostral preoptic region of brain, competing with other xenoestrogenic like BPA.
If we can achieve arterial age decrease, we can logically expect an improvement of the function of other body systems, resulting in a decrease in the whole body's age.
The first mechanism is based on the improvement of muscle functioning.
