The Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr. Matt, Dr. Mike's medical podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Mike Todorovich, and today I'm joined by my co-host, a chicken.

Oh, hey, chicken? My friend keeps saying, cheer up, man, it could be worse.

You could be stuck underground in a hole full of water.

I know he means well.

There we go.

I don't know.

I never know what to say after you tell these jokes.

I very rarely want to laugh because generally I laugh when things are funny.

And so sometimes I feel like I need to fill the void with laughter.

When internally, I'm crying.

Dying inside.

I'm dying very slowly inside.

How are you?

I'm to pan.

Yeah?

Everything all good? Everything's all right. Yeah? are you? Not too bad. Yeah, everything all good?

Everything's all right. Yeah. Are you ready and excited, enthusiastic?

Today's topic? Yeah. I don't know what it is. Capillaries, baby.

Okay, so these are small blood vessels. Damn straight they are. And that's basically it.

These are small vessels, which they're effectively,

if you think about the cardiovascular system, the heart's job is to contract to pump blood,

but that's just so that the tissues of the body can have gases and oxygen and nutrients

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