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Yeah, my first thought was "holy shit, maybe finally an actual justification for regular bloodletting as a health practice!"

• giantg2 4y ago
  I believe there are one or two conditions that actually require it in modern medicine, but I forget the names.
  • sodality2 4y ago
    https://web.archive.org/web/20170701150031/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/aug/06/health/he-31093 https://web.archive.org/web/20170701150031/http://articles.l... > Some people, he tells us, absorb too much iron, often as a result of a genetic condition called hereditary hemochromatosis. Over the years, the extra iron builds up slowly in people's bodies, causing damage to organs such as the liver and heart as well as the joints. > What contains a lot of iron? Red blood cells! That's what. Thus, the therapy for iron overload (as it's also called) is to draw pint after pint of blood from patients until the iron stores drop to an acceptable level, and thereafter draw the occasional unit of blood so those levels don't creep up again. Sounds very familiar if you replace "iron" with "PFAS".
  • HalcyonCowboy 4y ago
    Hemochromatosis is one, I was suspected to have it when I was younger and regular blood donations was an effective way to reduce my blood iron. Turns out I don't actually have the condition (it's genetic and doesn't go away as you age, whereas my extremely high iron resolved on its own), but I'm not mad about it, just a change I've welcomed.