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Doctor Eric Burg.

Someone recently had a good question.

They had a stroke at one time and they wanted to prevent future strokes.

So they wanted to know what would I suggest.

I wanted to do this video to talk about clots in general, what they are, what creates them,

and what you can do to prevent them.

So a clot or a coagulation is a group of cells that are kind of stuck together

and they can't seem to circulate through the vessels and they get hung up in certain parts of the body.

If they get hung up in your heart, you get a heart attack.

If they get hung up in the brain, you get a stroke.

If they get stuck in the lung, it's called a pulmonary embolism.

And you can start having chest pain, breathing problems, and even cardiac arrest.

If they get stuck in the deep veins of your leg, it's called a deep vein thrombosis.

And that can cause pain, redness, lack of circulation, weakness.

But you can get clots stuck anywhere in the body, liver and the kidney.

So in the body, we have this balance of these clotting factors, especially vitamin K,

and a lot of anti-clotting factors that are working together to keep the blood at the right consistency.

But with a clot, we're dealing with fiber in which is a protein.

Now, there's certain things that increase your risk of developing a clot.

And the big one is estrogen.

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