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Maybe someone should teach them bloodletting.
Let all that nasty cortisol flow right out
Bloodletting is pretty beneficial tho…
I mean, not everyone donating does it out of the goodness of their heart, there’s a health benefit.
But back when they just let it out… That’s still the treatment for lead poisoning and off the top of my head I can’t think of a reason it wouldn’t help with micro plastics in the same way.
But when bloodletting was a big thing. So was lead poisoning.
It wasn’t helping for the reason people thought, but it’s not up there with surgeons intentionally not washing their hands before surgery
Bloodletting is definitely NOT a treatment for lead poisoning, or for anything that you can think of.
Poisoning by metals is usually treated by using a chelating agent: a molecule that creates an ionic bond with that metal, and makes it easier for the body to excrete it or prevents it from being absorbed further, like dimercaprol or EDTA.
Guys, we figured all this shit out in the 18th and 19th century. How are we going back to the days of the dumbdumb? This moronic concept of “me think so must be” is dead: we actually test hypothesis now.
Yes, like that. Good job, some idiots may actually believe that. Now post it on wherever those idiots are like instragram and tiktok or whatever.
and off the top of my head I can’t think of a reason it wouldn’t help with micro plastics in the same way
That’s not a replacement for research. Bloodletting was the subject of one of the first ever clinical trials and we’ve known since then that it’s not effective or even harmful. There’s a handful of exceptions where it’s still done but never without a solid reason.
That’s not a replacement for research.
Right. It’s the reason we do research.
Bloodletting was the subject of one of the first ever clinical trials and we’ve known since then that it’s not effective or even harmful. There’s a handful of exceptions where it’s still done but never without a solid reason.
I literally just told you…
But since you didn’t like too much lead, what about too much iron?
https://www.acibademhealthpoint.com/donating-blood-with-hemochromatosis-know-how/
Scientist here. Microplastics in the body are too ingrained in our bodies for bloodletting to do much of anything. They’re even found in fetuses.
The good news (?) is we don’t know enough about microplastics to conclusively say they’re horrible for our health. The bad news is, I’d bet a lot of money that they are.
Same with lead…
When it builds up in the blood stream above a certain concentration it starts getting stored in organs.
I know they can cross the bloodbrain barrier, I’m just not sure when/how it starts to accumulate in organs. If it’s just immediate, yeah, no gains.
She fartin’
I know the idea is to be snarky and calling them “new age” somehow makes them less than real science, but the reality is there is some amazing science that has been done that shows how these different chemicals influence our brains and our behaviors. Good video on the topic with in-depth explanations from real scientists:
HAPPINESS: A Guide to the Drugs That Can Help You Get There -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAmgNoWzVk&t=29s
The scientist in the video:
I mean the point wasn’t that these chemicals don’t exist or that they’re not important for our brain chemistry, but the way influencers just make up shit about them (like in the image).
I get it. We should be skeptical of what we hear from influencers on social media. IMHO the way to debunk pseudoscience is with real science. There is some amazing scientific work done in this area and I wanted to highlight that.
Four humors? Like four types of jokes?
Don’t, they need to learn how to use the internet and not just use “their shortcuts” like an old person.
