🩸DONATE BLOOD—“the donation of blood is providing a selection pressure to enhance the fitness of your stem cells and their ability to replenish. Not only could you save someone’s life, but maybe you are enhancing the fitness of your blood system.” www.newscientist.com/article/2471... - ThreadSky

drericding.bsky.social • 9 days ago

🩸DONATE BLOOD—“the donation of blood is providing a selection pressure to enhance the fitness of your stem cells and their ability to replenish. Not only could you save someone’s life, but maybe you are enhancing the fitness of your blood system.”
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2471573-giving-blood-frequently-may-make-your-blood-cells-healthier/

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bxbx4.bsky.social•9 days ago

Who said bloodletting was barbaric

consensus-reality.bsky.social•9 days ago

oxonreanimated.bsky.social•9 days ago

dryhumorme.bsky.social•9 days ago

I think you need to have a DNMT3A mutation which less than 20% have.

floridabeth.bsky.social•7 days ago

My dad had O neg blood and donated all the time until he got a letter in the mail in the 80s stating that he likely had given one of his recipients HIV. Quite a letter! Long story short, my dad tested neg but we were really scared for a time as my mom had gotten a blood transfusion at one point.

applepiemommy.bsky.social•8 days ago

@leaslame.bsky.social

roo888.bsky.social•9 days ago

Notice the donors in the pic are masked, even though they are just baggy blues. I stopped donating when the masking requirement ended.

beesnotbombs.bsky.social•9 days ago

Right and theoretically we’d get the same benefits from bloodletting at home without the covid risk.

todddavidadams.bsky.social•9 days ago

How do you do bloodletting at home??? 🤔

beesnotbombs.bsky.social•9 days ago

Very carefully

jonathanmlewis.bsky.social•9 days ago

Donate plasma, too.

better-2be-kind.bsky.social•9 days ago

I have given all my life, had a cousin who had hemophilia and my other siblings and cousins made sure blood was always available. He passed some 40 years ago, but the habit of giving blood is ingrained.

cmonagan.bsky.social•9 days ago

Following stem-cell replacement, I was kept alive by blood and platelet transfusions. Many of them. Donating benefits you spiritually and medically as much as it benefits people like me.

hartsigns.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes, I was shot and also had blood transfusions that saved my life.

wee1rn.bsky.social•9 days ago

I froze my daughters stem cells at birth 20 years ago . Hopefully they will be useful to her someday .

peterangelakos.bsky.social•9 days ago

sanpaku.bsky.social•9 days ago

weaver33.bsky.social•7 days ago

Do you know if any blood transfusions are screened for covid?

todddavidadams.bsky.social•9 days ago

I used to be a frequent blood donor. After having a stem cell transplant due to leukemia I can no longer donate, but very grateful to those who do. I lost count of how many units of donated blood were given to me during my treatment. It was many.

pamscha.bsky.social•9 days ago

Great! Now include women in medical studies.

pamscha.bsky.social•9 days ago

Not picking on you, Dr. Feigl-Ding! I appreciate your work & posts, just making a general observation.

heshijia.bsky.social•9 days ago

Don't we give blood every month?

pamscha.bsky.social•9 days ago

Some of us are past that for a few reasons, but still donate blood

heshijia.bsky.social•9 days ago

I haven't read the study yet but as you mentioned, women are ignored. My immediate 1st thought was how does women's blood health compare since as a group we lose blood regularly, to the point of anemia for some. The headline implies it's a novel idea.

juttaneuhaus.bsky.social•9 days ago

I like the picture they use. But: here in Germany no one is masking so I stopped donating. If I faint they take my mask off. Too risky with everyone else not masking.

fairgo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Didn’t know this

bioinformant.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is interesting!

nanettejean.bsky.social•8 days ago

🩸 Always!

sueric.bsky.social•9 days ago

O- here. I give as often as I am allowed.

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