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...driving go-getter, he says, cannot clear his bloodstream fast enough of the triglycerides which accumulate after a high-fat meal. Unlike the more placid man, the go-getter uses too much of his body's heparin to break up the fat. There is not enough heparin (nature's anticoagulant) left to keep the red blood cells apart: "If, after every meal, a man has too many fat particles going around and red cells sludging and obstructing small blood vessels, the heart may be temporarily so embarrassed that this man will have a heart attack without a clot...
Fact is, concluded Cornell University's Dr. Stanley J. Behrman, teeth are far from immune to the processes of graft rejection. Even their enamel, he said, may touch off an immune reaction. The root is slowly whittled away by scavenger cells in the bloodstream of the tooth's new owner, and is replaced with soft tissue or new bone, which is why the crown eventually falls...
...countless proteins circulate in the blood or are washed by it, but a few are "sequestered": the fluid in the eye's lens, sperm secreted in the testicles, and thyroglobulin (an iodine-containing protein), which usually stays locked in the thyroid gland. If lens fluid leaks into the bloodstream after injury, its proteins start the antibody factory working and the body seeks to destroy the lens proteins...
...shown by the fact that if only one eye is injured, the antibody gets to the other eye and attacks the proteins in its lens. Thus injury to one eye may lead to blindness in both. Injury or inflammation of the testicles may force sperm proteins into the bloodstream, which then sets about destroying them-a process that causes temporary or even permanent sterility. If the thyroid gland is damaged or diseased, thyroglobulin may escape from its sequestered state, and a clearly defined form of thyroid disease results...
Every day is a brand-new pharmaceutical event for Monk: alcohol, Dexedrine, sleeping potions, whatever is at hand, charge through his bloodstream in baffling combinations. Predictably, Monk is highly unpredictable. When gay, he is gentle and blithe to such a degree that he takes to dancing on the sidewalks, buying extravagant gifts for anyone who comes to mind, playing his heart out. One day last fall he swept into his brother's apartment to dance before a full-length mirror so he could admire his collard-leaf boutonniere; he left without a word. "Hey!" he will call out. "Butterflies faster...