The following article was seen on page seven of the RhyDin Post, March the third.
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx21/dfenner_photo/handsomedoctor.jpg RhyDin Health Journalist: Dr. Arshad Herat
New Study Reveals Potentially Fatal Side Effects from Cigarette Smoke for Vampires March 3, 2010
A team of pulmonologists and neurologists at the New Haven Institute of Health may have confirmed evidence that certain additives in cigarettes and tobacco products have the potential to harm 'immune" vampiric patients.
According to a study conducted this past year that was published in the Journal of Nonnative Health, evidence suggests a harmful chemical reaction between the acetic acid additive in cigarettes and the high magnesium content of ichor that can contribute to lethargy, impaired muscular function, and ultimately death in vampiric patients.
Species afflicted with vampirism often undergo a pupal stage of development in which the normal hemoglobin content of the blood is replaced with a magnesium equivalent. Magnesium is an essential ion to living cells that plays a major role in manipulating important biological polyphosphate compounds like ATP, DNA, and RNA*. After undergoing vampiric metamorphosis, the iron-containing metalloprotein hemoglobin in human beings develops into a concentrated magnesium oxidate, capable of maintaining a low body temperature, allowing for greater flexion of transport vessels, and promoting a highly efficient vascular system. A concentrated amount of magnesium compounds in vampiric ichor accounts for an abundance of Type II muscle fibers, also known as fast-twitch fibers, which excel at anaerobically generating short bursts of strength and speed. The muscular system in vampiric patients is often built of 75-85% Type II muscular fibers, compared with only 50% in humans, which anatomically justifies above-average physical strength, dexterity and speed.
In vampiric patients, ichor is often circulated through the body by contraction of the skeletal muscles, rather than the heart. This permits anaerobic, direct respiration of the muscular system, and often eliminates the need for a constantly working pulmonary respiratory system. Because of this, the carbon dioxide and hydrogen content in vampiric ichor is unusually low, due to a predisposed capability to absorb oxygen directly into the ichor.
Acetic acid, found in cigarettes, when combined with the high magnesium content in vampiric ichor, undergoes a chemical reaction whose products include excess carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas. Because the carbon dioxide and hydrogen levels of vampiric ichor does not directly influence the respiratory system as it does in humans, this produces a potentially harmful overabundance of gaseous components that generate effects not unlike decompression sickness in humans. Physicians have reported a mottled appearance on skin, impaired muscular function, girdling abdominal and chest pain, and in severe cases, death in vampiric patients.
According to Dr. Gilles Molyneux, head of the research and development team at the New Haven Institute of Health, though vampires are not susceptible to pulmonary or brain emboli, a buildup of hydrogen ions in ichor can still lead to brain death.
"High concentration of hydrogen ions creates a buildup of lactic acid," explains Molyneux. "Such acidosis is capable of creating a complete brain infarction, or depriving the brain of oxygen for an extended period of time. While a vampire's cardiovascular system is quite unlike a human's, his brain still requires oxygen as much as a human's does. Ischemia can just as easily result in the extermination of brain activity."
Added Molyneux later: "It just goes to show you that smoking is terrible, even for species that are supposed to be 'immune" to human disorders."
According to Dr. Neyen Ortega, research associate for the study, recompression chambers have proven fairly successful in early cases of acetic acid reactions.
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http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx21/dfenner_photo/handsomedoctor.jpg RhyDin Health Journalist: Dr. Arshad Herat
New Study Reveals Potentially Fatal Side Effects from Cigarette Smoke for Vampires March 3, 2010
A team of pulmonologists and neurologists at the New Haven Institute of Health may have confirmed evidence that certain additives in cigarettes and tobacco products have the potential to harm 'immune" vampiric patients.
According to a study conducted this past year that was published in the Journal of Nonnative Health, evidence suggests a harmful chemical reaction between the acetic acid additive in cigarettes and the high magnesium content of ichor that can contribute to lethargy, impaired muscular function, and ultimately death in vampiric patients.
Species afflicted with vampirism often undergo a pupal stage of development in which the normal hemoglobin content of the blood is replaced with a magnesium equivalent. Magnesium is an essential ion to living cells that plays a major role in manipulating important biological polyphosphate compounds like ATP, DNA, and RNA*. After undergoing vampiric metamorphosis, the iron-containing metalloprotein hemoglobin in human beings develops into a concentrated magnesium oxidate, capable of maintaining a low body temperature, allowing for greater flexion of transport vessels, and promoting a highly efficient vascular system. A concentrated amount of magnesium compounds in vampiric ichor accounts for an abundance of Type II muscle fibers, also known as fast-twitch fibers, which excel at anaerobically generating short bursts of strength and speed. The muscular system in vampiric patients is often built of 75-85% Type II muscular fibers, compared with only 50% in humans, which anatomically justifies above-average physical strength, dexterity and speed.
In vampiric patients, ichor is often circulated through the body by contraction of the skeletal muscles, rather than the heart. This permits anaerobic, direct respiration of the muscular system, and often eliminates the need for a constantly working pulmonary respiratory system. Because of this, the carbon dioxide and hydrogen content in vampiric ichor is unusually low, due to a predisposed capability to absorb oxygen directly into the ichor.
Acetic acid, found in cigarettes, when combined with the high magnesium content in vampiric ichor, undergoes a chemical reaction whose products include excess carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas. Because the carbon dioxide and hydrogen levels of vampiric ichor does not directly influence the respiratory system as it does in humans, this produces a potentially harmful overabundance of gaseous components that generate effects not unlike decompression sickness in humans. Physicians have reported a mottled appearance on skin, impaired muscular function, girdling abdominal and chest pain, and in severe cases, death in vampiric patients.
According to Dr. Gilles Molyneux, head of the research and development team at the New Haven Institute of Health, though vampires are not susceptible to pulmonary or brain emboli, a buildup of hydrogen ions in ichor can still lead to brain death.
"High concentration of hydrogen ions creates a buildup of lactic acid," explains Molyneux. "Such acidosis is capable of creating a complete brain infarction, or depriving the brain of oxygen for an extended period of time. While a vampire's cardiovascular system is quite unlike a human's, his brain still requires oxygen as much as a human's does. Ischemia can just as easily result in the extermination of brain activity."
Added Molyneux later: "It just goes to show you that smoking is terrible, even for species that are supposed to be 'immune" to human disorders."
According to Dr. Neyen Ortega, research associate for the study, recompression chambers have proven fairly successful in early cases of acetic acid reactions.
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