Keeping iron low seems to be an important factor for good health, and Peat talks about strategies to minimize iron, such as having coffee with meat. In an interview, he mentions that people who donate blood are in better health than the general population (they have less diseases).
Now for the practical aspect of it:
Obviously using coffee and other "supplements" like vitamin E, tetracyclines and aspirin will "chelate" the iron, but relatively slowly. Many people on the forum already use these things. It seems that the fastest way of removing iron is by removing the blood, like "blood letting" in the old days.
For anyone who has donated blood or had blood removed: what effects did you experience? Were the benefits instant and drastic, or were they subtle and slow (ie it took several "donations" to notice anything)? Did you experience any side-effects? Would you recommend it as a way to improve the health, for a sick person?
There are some people who are unable to donate blood. For those people, if they know how to perform a venipuncture at home (like for a blood test), and just let the blood drip out in a bottle - what would be an appropriate "safe" amount of blood to remove at one time? I know for donations, they remove 450ml of blood. But it seems that quantity could lead to some dizziness and a few other side-effects. Would removing a quantity such as 50 ml (and repeating every few weeks) be safe and effective?
Now for the practical aspect of it:
Obviously using coffee and other "supplements" like vitamin E, tetracyclines and aspirin will "chelate" the iron, but relatively slowly. Many people on the forum already use these things. It seems that the fastest way of removing iron is by removing the blood, like "blood letting" in the old days.
For anyone who has donated blood or had blood removed: what effects did you experience? Were the benefits instant and drastic, or were they subtle and slow (ie it took several "donations" to notice anything)? Did you experience any side-effects? Would you recommend it as a way to improve the health, for a sick person?
There are some people who are unable to donate blood. For those people, if they know how to perform a venipuncture at home (like for a blood test), and just let the blood drip out in a bottle - what would be an appropriate "safe" amount of blood to remove at one time? I know for donations, they remove 450ml of blood. But it seems that quantity could lead to some dizziness and a few other side-effects. Would removing a quantity such as 50 ml (and repeating every few weeks) be safe and effective?