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Wait a minute: what if leeching was actually a legitimate treatment to remove blood toxins, maybe like mercury or lead poisoning? By the way, looks like donati
by asdfman123 4y ago
Wait a minute: what if leeching was actually a legitimate treatment to remove blood toxins, maybe like mercury or lead poisoning?
By the way, looks like donation removes 8% of your blood, so you’d have to donate 9 times to halve the amount of any chemical in your blood (assuming it’s not also stored elsewhere in your body).
- swixmix 4y ago"phlebotomy [...] A procedure in which a needle is used to take blood from a vein, usually for laboratory testing. Phlebotomy may also be done to remove extra red blood cells from the blood, to treat certain blood disorders. Also called blood draw and venipuncture." https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/phlebotomy# https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-term...
- guyomes 4y agoGiven the long and controversial history of bloodletting [0], this might do more harm then good. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting
- rcme 4y agoAny usage prior to the widespread adoption of the scientific method is largely irrelevant.
- jjeaff 4y agoYou certainly shouldn't donate blood in unsanitary conditions and while you are ill and weakened from some other sickness. Which is the conditions under which bloodletting usually occured in the past.
- asdfman123 4y agoI’m not saying people should do it, of course. Just wondering if there’s at least a grain of truth in it.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoI'm sure there's a grain of truth to it, else it wouldn't have been pushed as a treatment; likewise, there's a grain of truth in using ivermectin to treat the 'rona (in that it increases the survival chance of people who also have intestinal worms, see https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...)
- nylonstrung 4y agoI've heard that whatever benefits you get from Thiel's vampire transfusions also just come from removing blood via donation
- 0_____0 4y agoI mean the legit way to remove blood lead and mercury is chelation therapy,
- amelius 4y agoSo does blood donation have an effect on life expectancy?
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoIt sure does for the recipient!
- amelius 4y ago:)
- Lewton 4y agoProbably yes, but it's hard to tease out how much since there's a lot of restrictions on who can donate, so people who donate are already a healthier demographic
- amelius 4y agoIf the effect is likely positive, then isn't it in the interest of bloodbanks to find out?