heart pumps more blood per heartbeat, resting heart rate slows, blood volume increases, body can cool itself better, resting blood pressure decrease, metabolism in skeletal muscle enhanced (improved fuel use), increased antioxidant chemicals in body and lowers oxidative stress. muscular strength helps:
This is what I found out by googling.Sigmoid means S shaped. Tortuous means it's more curvy than usual, but rarely has particular significance. A tortuous sigmoid simply means that there are a lot of twists and turns. By itself, this is an anatomical variant and not linked to a specific diseaseHope this helps a bit.
As the narrowest segment of the large intestine, and the segment closest to the rectum (the part of the intestine that stores feces until a bowel movement occurs), the sigmoid colon is often subject to the straining and pressure increases that can weaken the colonic muscles over time.