Fiber clotting effect

Aside from its murky role in brain function, alpha-linolenic acid has some well-documented effects on heart disease. It reduces the risk of blood-clot formation, lowers the chance of potentially lethal irregular heartbeat, and probably has an antiinflammatory effect on blood vessels. Several studies have found a link between increased intake of the acid and reduced risk of death from heart disease. Alpha-linolenic acid helps lower blood cholesterol, but flaxseed has another component that performs this function even more effectively. This is soluble fiber, which isn t absorbed by the body and passes right through the digestive system. On its journey through the digestive tract, the fiber binds cholesterol and prevents it from... 

Some proteins, such as plasma fibronectin and albumin, interact with fibrin to alter clot structure and properties, although the former becomes crosslinked to fibrin while the latter does not. As a result of these and other interactions, fibrin clots formed in plasma have very different properties than those made with purified proteins (Blomback et al, 1994 Carr, 1988 Shah et al., 1987). Albumin has significant effects on the extent of lateral aggregation, yielding either thicker or thinner fibers depending on its concentration and other experimental conditions (Galanakis et al, 1987 Torbet, 1986). 

To take up the questions raised in this book, one would need to find papers with titles such as Twelve Intermediate Steps Leading to the Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Center, A Proto-Cilium Could Generate a Power Stroke Sufficient to Turn a Cell by Ten Degrees, Intermediates in Adenosine Biosynthesis Effectively Mimic Adenosine Itself in RNA Function, and A Primitive Clot Made of Randomly Aligned Fibers Would Block Circulation in Veins Smaller Than 0.3 Millimeters. But the papers are missing. Nothing remotely like this has been published. 

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