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is there a way to supplement it, such as milk or egg whites?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoalbuminemia If your albumin levels are low, then you probably have more serious problems than your albumin levels being low, so you'd want to treat the underlying condition.
Post-hoc "evolutionary just-so story" of the day: animals evolved under conditions of predation, where they'd tend to lose blood regularly, either in the process of fighting off/getting away from predators, or in the process of attacking prey with violent defenses. A species that goes years without losing any blood, is effectively operating its body in an evolutionary out-of-spec configuration. It might work , for a…
TLDR: There are correlations that it reduces circulating iron, circulating cancer cells, arterial hardening, decrease insulin sensitivity, and it increased metabolism. Not a lot of super firm evidence though
Post-hoc "evolutionary just-so story" of the day: animals evolved under conditions of predation, where they'd tend to lose blood regularly, either in the process of fighting off/getting away from predators, or in the process of attacking prey with violent defenses. A species that goes years without losing any blood, is effectively operating its body in an evolutionary out-of-spec configuration. It might work , for a…
Scientifically interesting. A lot of people that have acquired the wisdom of experience would probably shudder at the thought of living 500 years, though.
And one could always opt out...
Implications for recruiting plasma donors?
Post-hoc "evolutionary just-so story" of the day: animals evolved under conditions of predation, where they'd tend to lose blood regularly, either in the process of fighting off/getting away from predators, or in the process of attacking prey with violent defenses. A species that goes years without losing any blood, is effectively operating its body in an evolutionary out-of-spec configuration. It might work , for a…
If I remember correctly, it is beneficial for your health to donate blood if you have some predisposition for Fe accumulation (hemochromatosis in the severe form.
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This is getting flagged down as a dumb joke, but for those in the cheap seats, it's not entirely clear exactly how this differs. Presumably adding "adding albumin and water" is different than just "adding water". But why, exactly? And so on.
It differs because everything except saline and albumin is filtered out. The point is to show that some markers of aging are harmful byproducts in your blood, and filtering them out can have positive effects.
Post-hoc "evolutionary just-so story" of the day: animals evolved under conditions of predation, where they'd tend to lose blood regularly, either in the process of fighting off/getting away from predators, or in the process of attacking prey with violent defenses. A species that goes years without losing any blood, is effectively operating its body in an evolutionary out-of-spec configuration. It might work , for a…
> A species that goes years without losing any blood, is effectively operating its body in an evolutionary out-of-spec configuration. It might work, for a while; but it wasn't heavily optimized for. I think your/the hypothesis fails...take certain species of jellyfish that are biologically immortal, they don’t have blood at all. Coincidentally they are considered top of the food chain, so another knock to the hypothe…
Then that would be an evolutionary in-spec configuration, since Cnidaria-phylum species have evolved under selection pressure for hundreds of millions of years in that "never losing blood, because it doesn't have any" configuration.
For a similar reason, you wouldn't expect most plants to be troubled/benefited by the loss of solutes (= sap); a maple tree should probably live about the same lifetime whether it's tapped or not, because maple trees evolved mostly without predation. But for plants that have evolved over eons entirely under conditions of predation (e.g. where they're a primary ecological water source, like cacti in the desert—observable by the fact that they possess defenses to predation), you would expect a difference in longevity between those that lose transported solutes to predation, vs. those who don't.
Post-hoc "evolutionary just-so story" of the day: animals evolved under conditions of predation, where they'd tend to lose blood regularly, either in the process of fighting off/getting away from predators, or in the process of attacking prey with violent defenses. A species that goes years without losing any blood, is effectively operating its body in an evolutionary out-of-spec configuration. It might work , for a…
A testable hypothesis for your idea: do women age slower than men.
Post-hoc "evolutionary just-so story" of the day: animals evolved under conditions of predation, where they'd tend to lose blood regularly, either in the process of fighting off/getting away from predators, or in the process of attacking prey with violent defenses. A species that goes years without losing any blood, is effectively operating its body in an evolutionary out-of-spec configuration. It might work , for a…
I don't know but since I was young it always seemed intuitive that blood-letting ought to have some good effects. If xyz bad things buildup (say, heavy metals) exist in the blood stream, and you remove a few % of your blood stream to make new blood, haven't you removed some xyz bad buildup?