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> That ought to jolt the homeostatic controllers good, and that could well be one of the reasons for the beneficial effects Indeed, I'm wondering if this is yet another example of eustress. Other examples of eustress are exercise, sauna, and cryotherapy.
Eustress, that's a new one. I thought that was called hormesis.
Maybe I should get some pet leeches. I don't know if Google's search results are accurate but I watched The African Queen recently and when Bogart gets leeches I googled if they are harmful and the first results said "No"
There are various blood removal method, one of method that I’ve seen and commonly used is Hijamaz/Bekam. A small incision is made on the skin (usually the back); then a suction cup is used to draw the blood out. It is widely popular in Asia, I usually see it done by Moslem as they are recommended by their prophet to do so. Make sure the method is correct and that the equipment is sterile though.
(Sorry, I've been on twitter recently and it's rotting my brain.)
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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?
That sounds more like an argument in favor of having kidneys than anything else...
But what if you also change the oil?
Seems like the conspiracy theories that the rich and global elite harvest the blood of the young and innocent to rejuvenate them isn't as false as we once thought... /s Sometimes I wish we had a medical system where whoever wanted to be a test patient for whatever reason could sign on the dotted line once advised of the potential downsides (up to and including death assumedly) so we could advance medical science fast…
This may go part of the way to explaining why women have a longer life span then men, they're constantly having to manufacture new blood. Men only have to create new blood if they donate or suffer some injury, but women's bodies are generating new blood all the time.
Everyone generates new blood all the time. There's nothing gender specific about this. Our blood cells are completely replaced over a cycle of something like 4 months. And this study is about plasma and albumin specifically.