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so today we’re going to talk about blood proteins  the proteins in your blood i’m going to try  

to make it extremely simple and basic because  there’s been a lot of questions about what does  

high protein or low protein mean in my blood and  also high protein in my urine what does that mean  

okay so there’s two main types of protein in the  blood now there’s additional ones but the two main  

types of protein are number one albumin  which represents about 50 to 60 percent  

of all your protein in your blood which i’m  going to explain what that is in a second  

and then antibodies which is the rest of  the protein in your blood which but again  

these two types of protein represent most  the protein in your blood now your liver  

makes albumin and the purpose of albumin  is to hold the fluid in your blood  

so if there’s liver damage you’re not going  to be able to hold the fluid in the blood  

so where is it going to go now it’s going to go  out through the urine but it’s also going to go  

into your tissues around the cells and we call  this edema or swelling in your lower extremities  

or your legs it can also go into a sac around  your abdominal area and that’s called the cities  

societies comes from the word that describes a  sac that’s holding water and this is why when  

people have liver damage they tend to get this  pot belly so number one albumin holds the fluid  

in your blood number two it nourishes your tissues  and number three it acts as a transport it helps  

to transport hormones like your thyroid hormones  electrolytes like calcium potassium and sodium  

vitamins certain drugs and fatty acids so you  can see that protein is really needed for many  

different functions now let’s shift gears  over to the other type of protein which are  

antibodies antibodies are produced by certain  immune cells the b cells that help you in  

your immunity so they’re little y  shaped proteins that are like receptors  

and they connect with something called an  antigen now what is an antigen an antigen is just  

simply a piece of a pathogen or some foreign thing  in the body that doesn’t need to be in the body  

so you can look at it like a piece of a virus or  a piece of a bacteria so antibodies connect to  

antigens and they do four things number one they  neutralize it because the danger of a pathogen  

like a virus is when it invades the cell it goes  underneath the radar and your immune system cannot  

detect it anymore so it’s very very important  to prevent or neutralize that antigen or virus  

from entering the cell so your antibodies will  neutralize or get stuck to this virus and kind of  

leave it out to dry prevent it from doing anything  number two antibodies also tag these pathogens  

for phagocytosis so the phagocytes can go in there  and eat them okay so they help identify the good  

guys from the bad guys and number three antibodies  are involved in inflammation and helping destroy  

pathogens through using inflammation and there’s  a lot more to that in other videos that i’ve done  

and number four and this is very interesting  if the virus has invaded the cell already  

the antibody will cause the infected cell  to commit suicide so as you can see there’s  

a lot of different strategies going on and the  vital importance of this protein in your blood  

so if your protein is high one reason could be an  infection okay there’s an immune reaction and now  

you know a little bit more of what’s happening in  your body and what it’s trying to do it can also  

indicate dehydration it can also indicate there’s  some type of cancer in the white blood cells like  

multiple myeloma now having high or low protein in  the blood doesn’t mean the same thing is happening  

in the urine okay because if there’s high levels  of protein in the urine that usually means  

there is kidney damage now there’s other reasons  as well i just did a video on that now i’m going  

to put a link down below it could mean that  you’re consuming too much protein you did  

intense exercise you’re taking a certain type of  supplement called creatine but kidney damage is at  

the top of the list if the kidney is damaged then  the filter is damaged and you’re not filtering the  

blood anymore so you’re going to have high protein  in the urine and your urine is going to be foamy  

now there’s something else that’s very interesting  when a person consumes excess amounts of water  

you can also cause higher levels of protein  in the urine as well that’s not necessarily  

pathogenic it’s not a kidney problem it’s just  you’re just drinking too much water and then of  

course if you’re a diabetic you’re going to have  higher protein in the urine as well because of  

the massive destruction of what diabetes does  to the filtering unit in your kidney all right  

guys so thanks for watching and i hope you now  have a great understanding of blood proteins

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