Red blood cells are one of the major components of blood, along with white blood cells and platelets. Red blood cells help carry oxygen throughout the body and carbon dioxide as a waste product. Naturally, red blood cells can’t live forever and the bone marrow has to produce new blood cells every day.
The normal red blood cell count in men is around 5 × 10¹²/L of blood and the female count is a bit lower at around 4.8 × 10¹²/L.
In order to understand the full scale of this number, let us put it this way: 1 liter of blood contains an estimated 1 trillion red blood cells.
Erythrocytes or red blood cells are constantly self-renewing cells. So, how long does a red blood cell live and how often does the red bone marrow fully replace 1 trillion red blood cells to a new 1 trillion red blood cells?
On average, the lifespan of a red blood cell is around 120 days. However, if blood viscosity is high, the body is flooded with toxins, a person leads an unhealthy lifestyle and has some chronic illnesses — all these factors may affect the lifespan of the cells. The problem is that blood cells cannot repair themselves when damaged since they lack a nucleus and organelles. Therefore, when they are not able to function properly due to a cell membrane disruption (also known as cytoplasmic membrane), they can rupture and break down. The above picture shows in fuller detail the life cycle of red blood cells.
So, the red bone marrow produces about 1 trillion red blood cells per 1 liter of blood every 120 days. To make sure that the body systems are working well, erythrocytes are not dying off early and the bone marrow is not wasting extra stem cells, you should track your nutrition intake, lifestyle and mood. Don’t forget to support normal blood function by all available means which include physical training and such products as Synthesit that can be of great help as well.
Synthesit helps in thinning the blood, and if the blood is less thick, the easier it is for red blood cells to flow through the blood vessels. There are less factors that can affect red blood cells so they can serve their purpose longer. Synthesit promotes the increase of stem cell production which means that bone marrow cells are able to divide the proper number of times to ensure an essential amount of red blood cells.
Blood is the fluid of life. Taking good care of blood-forming (hematopoietic) system will benefit you with good health for many years.
