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The article misses the simplest technique: Just donate blood as often as possible. This results in a loss of cholesterol, other bad lipoproteins, excess iron i
by OutOfHere 9mo ago
The article misses the simplest technique:
Just donate blood as often as possible. This results in a loss of cholesterol, other bad lipoproteins, excess iron in those who have it, and PFAS toxins. It is frequency-dependently associated with longevity.
Whole blood donation avoids the plastic lining of plasma donations, with the latter undesirably transferring unwanted microplastics into the body.
For those with sufficient spare money, instead of donating blood, just get various blood tests every other week, additively comparable to a donation if the tests are substantial.
Granted, this is antithetical to being a vampire, but you will still have to make up for it by supplementing sufficient healthy nutrients, e.g. electrolytes, ferric pyrophosphate, protein, etc. to allow your body to quickly restore the lost blood.
As a disclaimer, do not ever donate blood if you use narcotics, disallowed drugs, injectable drugs, or have unsafe intimate practices, or might have chagas or TB or even long Covid.
- kadushka 9mo agoIs there any evidence?
- popcorncowboy 9mo ago[flagged]
- fyrabanks 9mo agodoes this imply that you're just giving shitty blood to people that need life saving procedures?
- overfeed 9mo ago> does this imply that you're just giving shitty blood... 2 questions: is there any other kind? If there were, ate people requiring transfusion in a position to make demands to the donors (not vendors)
- munk-a 9mo agoBad blood is better than no blood! Also, I'm not certain how much they treat blood, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being a purification system sort of similar to Dialysis where you rely on an external machine for removing impurities.
- mrguyorama 9mo agoThe microplastic filled blood will manage to oxygenate their brain and other organs and save their life, and then they can donate it on to the next person in need. Feels a little homeopathy... How many people can we put the same blood through?
- OutOfHere 9mo agoThat's a gross mischaracterization because anyone who is donating blood regularly as a discipline is likely to have blood that is substantially better (rather than worse) than average. Those with poor health practices will typically simply stop donating as they will lack the discipline to continue. Fwiw, it is the responsibility of the blood banks to do due diligence testing.
- psychoslave 9mo agoThat's more nuanced. The alternative is they get no blood and die. If the blood don't contains long term detrimental pathogen, that's seems like an okayish tradeoff.
- drewg123 9mo agoSo maybe they were on to something with leeches?
- koakuma-chan 9mo agoEvery time I do blood work I almost faint.
- janeerie 9mo agoI used to have this problem until I was given the tip to tense various muscles throughout my body during the process. Do not listen to the nurses who tell you to relax!
- OutOfHere 9mo agoI don't know if this will help, but you could try drinking a WHO ORS electrolyte powder packet in room-temperature water just before donating blood. Or you could drink half before, and half after. Drink it slowly, and practice first at home. Or if the fainting is psychological, then work your way up to psychological dominance via multiple blood tests rather than donations.
- koakuma-chan 9mo agoIt's not psychological. I know because there is this one absolutely OP trick I learned from a gym coach, if you feel like you are fainting, lie down on the floor, raise your legs and put them on the wall. Apparently this makes blood flow into your brain or something, and it's magic. You get much better almost instantly. Anyway, I was also told to take sugar before giving blood, so next time I do I'm gonna try both, thanks.
- OutOfHere 9mo agoGood to know. Fwiw, the WHO ORS powder has glucose in it, among other things, which is precisely useful in this context.
- 1970-01-01 9mo ago>It is frequency-dependently associated with longevity. Paper where more frequent cycles in women correlate to longer lifetimes? That would have to be true if this were true.
- Sohcahtoa82 9mo agoI'm assuming you're referring to blood loss from menstruation? That's typically only 30-40 mL (1-1.5 fluid ounces, about a shot glass). Nowhere close to the amount given during a donation.
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoHeavy bleeders would be in the 100-200ml range. This group should correlate with longevity.