A low hemoglobin count can also be due to blood loss, which can occur because of: 1  Bleeding from a wound. 2  Bleeding in your digestive tract, such as from ulcers, cancers or hemorrhoids. 3  Bleeding in your urinary tract.  Frequent blood 1  donation. Heavy menstrual bleeding.
The brain is the control centre for your body and it sits in your skull at the top of your spinal cord. The brain has three main parts. 1  The cerebellum (say se-re-bell-um). The brain stem, that controls a lot of the 'automatic' actions of your body such as breathing and heart beat, and links the brain to the spinal cord and the rest of the body.
The brain is protected from injury by the skull, meninges, cerebrospinal fluid and the blood-brain barrier. In this post we will explore them all in detail, well, except for the skull since that was already discussed in other posts about the bones. The function of the meninges is to cover and protect the brain itself. It encloses and protects the vessels that supply the brain and contains CSF between the pia mater and arachnoid maters. Immediately deep to the periosteum is the periosteal and meningeal which create the dura mater. The dura mater is found all around the brain and its 2 layers separate and create spaces called dural sinuses.