Bone Marrow

Deep inside your bones lies a space that most people do not know how fundamental it is. There, in the soft, protected core of the hardest tissue in your body, your blood is made. Every red blood cell that carries oxygen through your organism. Every white blood cell that defends you. Every platelet that closes your wounds. Everything begins here — in the bone marrow, at the innermost place you have.

When this tissue becomes diseased — as leukaemia, as anaemia with a marrow-based cause, as the aplastic form of blood deficiency, as myelodysplastic syndrome, as marrow suppression following chemotherapy — it is not some peripheral area that is affected. The deepest layer of your body is speaking up. The factory of your life cells. The place where life itself originates before it circulates.