How Does Low-Dose Aspirin Work?

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
  • You ever see those commercials suggesting people take a tiny dose of aspirin every day? It’s an amount so small it doesn’t really work for pain relief, yet taking low-dose aspirin is fairly common, among those at risk for heart attacks or stroke. Here’s why aspirin works in a baby-sized dose.
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  • @ACSReactions
    @ACSReactions  5 років тому +27

    Here's an update for you--there's new research out there that says there's no benefit of taking low dose aspirin in older healthy adults. Here's the study if you're into it: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/daily-low-dose-aspirin-found-have-no-effect-healthy-life-span-older-people

    • @starwarsfamilyguy0
      @starwarsfamilyguy0 5 років тому +2

      no

    • @alissg9498
      @alissg9498 3 роки тому

      X

    • @vampoftrance
      @vampoftrance 3 роки тому +3

      There are far more studies that show it prevents heart attack by 44%

    • @ianmangham4570
      @ianmangham4570 3 роки тому +1

      @@vampoftrance It's very good for any human if they take 75mg every other day. Of course a young fit human would have no need for ANY pharmaceuticals 😉

    • @MuadDib_
      @MuadDib_ 2 роки тому +1

      All the other pharmaceuticals decided to pay off a study discrediting aspirin which has been around for decades so they can push theirs. Your "study"..

  • @robburgess4556
    @robburgess4556 5 років тому +38

    Just a small audio geek note: You guys need to pay a little more attention to your audio levels. The v/o levels change frequently with the change of sections or overdubs. Not drastically but enough that I found myself adjusting the volume to keep the levels consistent.

  • @spankyharland9845
    @spankyharland9845 Місяць тому +1

    they should change the name from baby aspirin to old people aspirin.

  • @Kaneanite
    @Kaneanite 5 років тому +34

    My mother has had 3 strokes serve enough to be hospitalized and she has been taking baby aspirin for years, so I just would like to thank you for explaining the science behind taking low dose aspirin.

    • @vampoftrance
      @vampoftrance 3 роки тому +4

      Stroke can be hereditary. It cannot hurt to try. I'm sorry about your mom.

    • @flevinamary9828
      @flevinamary9828 Рік тому +3

      I hope she is doing fine now..❤ My mother had 4 strokes both ischemic and hemorrhagic and she is having less moment only. I hope she will recover soon. 🙏

    • @a.r.r.i.9841
      @a.r.r.i.9841 8 місяців тому

      In Germany in that case they prescribe 100mg of aspirin and cholesterol lowering drugs as prevention.

    • @gasperstarina9837
      @gasperstarina9837 8 місяців тому +2

      Who said its 100% stroke preventing medicine? You have so many other factors: smoking, food, air, genetics, cloth simply took of in leg,..3strokes,she should take stronger anto clothing agents tho. Sorry for your loss anyways

    • @Kaneanite
      @Kaneanite 8 місяців тому

      I know all the causes for a stroke, but that's not the video is about. The video is about how low dose aspirin, helps prevent a stroke.
      Also i think i'll be sticking with the doctor's prescribed treatments rather than some random UA-cam comment advice.
      Also, also i never said she died.@@gasperstarina9837

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 5 років тому +10

    "We're here to tell you how Aspirin _works,_ not what you should _do_ with it."
    Doctor poses. 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️🏥

  • @2MC
    @2MC 5 років тому +10

    At 1:49 I had the sudden desire to go shopping at Target...weird.

  • @martinsavage6838
    @martinsavage6838 2 роки тому +8

    Why 81mg? Why not 80?

    • @anikm111
      @anikm111 6 місяців тому +2

      Can be divisible by 3

    • @jamierichards9926
      @jamierichards9926 5 місяців тому

      But 80 can be divided by 2? I’m just really trying to understand this too lol

  • @nikosniko7092
    @nikosniko7092 Місяць тому +1

    Destroys your GI so you have to way out the risks

  • @horusbay
    @horusbay 5 років тому +7

    Now I understand why taking it when I have a massive hangover works! Thank you!

  • @AwesomeSauce7176
    @AwesomeSauce7176 5 років тому +5

    My sister has an inflammatory disease (Chrone’s disease) and she also takes a small amount of aspirin each day... it’s important especially since she had a stroke when she was two. Thanks, Science!

  • @nedaCFilms
    @nedaCFilms 2 роки тому +2

    Aspirin is the wonder drug

  • @zipsteri
    @zipsteri 4 роки тому +2

    Aspirin used to be derived from Willow tree bark. Now it's being derived from petroleum processes. Some stores are selling aspirin 81 mg. 250 tablets for 99 cents. Is it the same? Do comment. Thank you.

  • @vampoftrance
    @vampoftrance 3 роки тому +8

    My best friend dated the doctor who discovered this. I heard about it so much. Now I take aspirin every day for years! Thanks!

  • @lanternofthegreen
    @lanternofthegreen 5 років тому +5

    What I understand is COX-1 plays a key role for forming blood clot so blocking it out prevents new clots from forming. But what about an already formed clot staying intact? Does it play a role in that, too? If not, what I assume is blocking COX-1 with aspirin only stops new clots from forming, which is already good enough. But you've mentioned that if someone is having a heart attack the doctors give the patient 325mg of it, for... 'dissolving' the already formed clot?

    • @maggus999
      @maggus999 5 років тому +2

      I'm just guessing here, but heart attacks doesn't have to come with an immediate passing out / collapse, some can be slowly progressing over hours. If you're a ways off from a hospital taking something to inhibit further clotting seems to be a very good idea. I know of a guy (an optomitrist, funnily enough) who responded to his first attack by taking a long hot shower to relieve the felt shoulder pain (he responded well to actual medical treatment after). My question is rather: Should you always take an aspirin if you have one available if you suspect a heart attack and are a considerable distance from treatment?

    • @mathematix-rodcast
      @mathematix-rodcast 5 років тому +6

      Aspirin is not a clot buster. So, it does not break a clot down. Aspirin forms a covalent (irreversible) bond with the cyclo-oxengase enzyme's active site so that no further platelet activation can occur so that clotting cannot ensue.
      The agents that dissolve clots are called fibrinolytic therapies and are only available at hospitals as intravenous medications. There are several marketed agents alteplase, tenecteplase and reteplase.
      I think it is really about preventing further platelet recruitment that will save the patient's life. Perhaps, allowing a patient's own endogenous plasminogen/plasmin to do its job is enough to prevent significant harm. Plasmin is the compound that breaks the chemical bonds in fibrin, which is in the clot itself.

    • @mathematix-rodcast
      @mathematix-rodcast 5 років тому +1

      So, that optometrist actually caused his vessels to vasodilate, which is a huge factor in clot formation. When vessels are clamped down and have a very narrow diameter, platelets form clots very readily. However, once vasodilation occurs, the clot can free itself from where it is lodged or at least allow blood to circulate passed the point of occlusion. This is huge since it is the lack for perfusion that kills your cerebral, pulmonary or cardiac tissue. @@maggus999

    • @maggus999
      @maggus999 5 років тому

      Thanks for the insight! Because I don't know, I struggle to decide whether it's a good or bad thing to vasodilate, you only mention it's huge, but not in a negative or positive way? I imagine positive, but then again as I understand it deep vein trombosis are dangerous precisely because they break loose and lodge somewhere more critical?

    • @mathematix-rodcast
      @mathematix-rodcast 5 років тому

      The vasodilation is almost always positive. In fact, there is a negative correlation of vasodilation and thromboembolism. In cases of high blood pressure, the vasoconstriction drives the disease, which causes heart attacks and strokes.
      However, it is not positive in cases of shock like septic shock and anaphylactic shock, but those have nothing to do with thromboembolic events, and those are really extreme cases of vasodilation. Thromboemboli are critical when they land/lodge in pulmonary or cerebral tissue or even a cardiac vessel. In the first case, that is a pulmonary embolus, and it has a high association with death. If the thrombus embolizes to cerebral tissue, then it is a stroke, and the last case is of course a heart attack. @@maggus999

  • @jamesstirling3792
    @jamesstirling3792 17 днів тому

    Works on a certain part of the clotting cascade blocking a molecule called cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) in platelets, preventing them from becoming activated.

  • @TomitoCapdevila
    @TomitoCapdevila Рік тому +2

    EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! SOOO SO INFORMATIVE!

  • @gfdfdgfdghgdhs234
    @gfdfdgfdghgdhs234 5 років тому +3

    Less than 500 views and already in my epic stuff playlist

  • @NGCoinslove
    @NGCoinslove 5 років тому +1

    Goood my freind from yfreind in ytube in Morocco

  • @lilianaproenca6064
    @lilianaproenca6064 6 місяців тому +1

    What about the stomach problems due to taking baby aspirin every day? There ir any ideia about that?

    • @23merlino
      @23merlino День тому

      i believe i read somewhere that the baby aspirin has a coating so that it doesn't dissolve in the stomach but in the intestines...

  • @pradiptarezasyahruna4487
    @pradiptarezasyahruna4487 5 років тому +1

    Why now this channel often discuss about biochemistry, not pure chemistry?

  • @nik.p2
    @nik.p2 3 місяці тому

    Great video, thanks for telling separately that 325mg Aspirin should be taken during a heart attack for SOS and to prevent it in the future one might take 80mg daily as per your doctor's advice.

  • @mandarp9472
    @mandarp9472 11 місяців тому

    Trials needs to conducted on 10 mg, 20 mg, 30 mg Aspirin taken daily.

  • @vaishalibhatt574
    @vaishalibhatt574 8 місяців тому

    My 80 yr old mother suffering from heart valve narrowing and irregular heart beat doctor proscribed asprin and apixaban togather
    Ecosprin av 75 and apigat 2.5
    Please suggest us it is ok to take both medicine together or it may be any risk

  • @semiconductorsinarabic4090
    @semiconductorsinarabic4090 5 років тому +2

    Keep it upp, i love this channel!!!

  • @Prowler047
    @Prowler047 5 років тому +3

    Great video!

  • @GuidoPerdomo
    @GuidoPerdomo 5 років тому +6

    I loved this video, I would love if you did more of this kind, i. e. explaining how medicines work. I would like to know, I didn't quite understand how it is that platelets detect that there's a wound. Does it have to be something with detecting a difference in the chemistry between the blood solution and what's outside of it?

  • @tom-dr1ym
    @tom-dr1ym 2 роки тому +6

    81mg for 2 years now

    • @VS-qd3tz
      @VS-qd3tz 2 роки тому +1

      Any Benefits or Any Problems 🤔🤔

    • @tom-dr1ym
      @tom-dr1ym 2 роки тому +2

      @@VS-qd3tz no Doctor keeps me on them

    • @kingbambam
      @kingbambam Рік тому +1

      Why are you on them, if you don't mind me asking?

  • @momiforyouall
    @momiforyouall 4 роки тому +4

    I am on aspirin 75mg, rosuvastatin10mg and exforge 5/80 for whole life by my physician on accidentally diagnosis of confirmed hypertension patient as he checked my blood pressure at an age of 35. Thanks for my physician on his preventive approach.

  • @The_Non-One
    @The_Non-One Місяць тому

    I don’t like the music

  • @MR.F30
    @MR.F30 5 років тому +1

    Best video ever!

  • @choedzin
    @choedzin 5 років тому +1

    Here in Germany the normal dose is 400 rather than 385 mg, and a low-dose tablet comes out to 100 rather than 81 mg.

    • @MrJayPuff
      @MrJayPuff 5 років тому

      Jigme Choedzin Balasidis they said a full dose is 325mg.

    • @choedzin
      @choedzin 5 років тому

      @@MrJayPuff You're right, I stand corrected. That makes the difference all the greater. (Is my cognitive impairment due to an overdose of acetylsalicylic acid, perhaps? :-) )

    • @mathematix-rodcast
      @mathematix-rodcast 5 років тому

      Aspirin in the United States was originally dosed of the measuring unit known as grains. The 325 mg aspirin was 5 grains, where 1 grain is approximately 65 mg. So, this is how it reached it status as its dosing regimen in the United States.

    • @choedzin
      @choedzin 5 років тому +1

      @@mathematix-rodcast Very interesting, thanks.

    • @mathematix-rodcast
      @mathematix-rodcast 5 років тому

      @@choedzin, NIcht zu danken. Jederzeit.

  • @shinchanthebest
    @shinchanthebest 5 років тому +1

    29 liker!

  • @MimiTachiwkawa
    @MimiTachiwkawa 5 років тому

    S.O. to COX-I and COX-II

  • @vasantsande8644
    @vasantsande8644 3 роки тому

    Thank you Doctor.

  • @rogermoore27
    @rogermoore27 3 роки тому

    thank you

  • @sandeephansdak314
    @sandeephansdak314 3 роки тому

    ....and!....

  • @heeminsong3714
    @heeminsong3714 Рік тому

    2:05 ~

  • @pet3590
    @pet3590 5 років тому

    This is the one channel I have notifications on for

  • @gandikotapravallika5152
    @gandikotapravallika5152 4 роки тому +2

    i am pregnant.but I did mistakenly use aspirin 75mg then what it happens

    • @kamalgiri4524
      @kamalgiri4524 4 роки тому

      Gandekota Pravallika then what happened??

    • @measphoulla
      @measphoulla 3 роки тому +2

      My doctor told me to take baby aspirin while pregnant to prevent preeclampsia (bc of my weight) I think you should be fine :-)

  • @ut561
    @ut561 Рік тому

    too much detail

  • @mr-alexknight6578
    @mr-alexknight6578 3 роки тому

    If you want to avoid all the nonsense pointless bla bla bla go to 3:00.

  • @maattttt07
    @maattttt07 5 років тому +1

    Poison!!

    • @Pyriphlegeton
      @Pyriphlegeton 5 років тому +15

      Ah, shut up.

    • @Fat12219
      @Fat12219 3 місяці тому

      Do this , don't do that 🤔

  • @markfreese3396
    @markfreese3396 11 місяців тому

    So cool , how did you know that?