[Mouse47]

I submitted this to reddit with limited discussion :https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/hmu8dc/diluting...

I'm 29 years old and I've started donating blood regularly in an effort to achieve the same effect. Ideally you'd donate plasma, but there is an important difference between the treatment in the study and donating plasma: in the study, they replace the plasma with saline and albumin. Donating plasma does not replenish your albumin. Albumin is regenerated relatively quickly, however.

[graeme]

In blood donations you do not have any replacement either, correct? So from that perspective is there any advantage over plasma donations?

[Mouse47]

I'm not sure! Straight up blood donation takes away some stuff that takes a while to regenerate, so you're not allowed to donate more often than once every 8 weeks. By contrast, you can donate plasma twice a week in the US (although if I remember correctly, other countries limit you to once every two weeks).

In other words, what they take out of you during blood donations is a lot more...precious.

I'm O- though so I don't know if they'll let me donate plasma (they want my blood!). I was thinking of alternating plasma and blood in order to get a little bit of both if I can.

[citizenkeen]

You can donate plasma twice a week, as opposed to every other month for blood.

[excalibur]

Also you typically get paid a small fee for donating plasma.

[epicureanideal]

So bloodletting works?

/s

[epicureanideal]

Or less sarcastically, a biological “oil change”.

[agumonkey]

and sucking youngs blood too /s/2

[aaron695]

I stopped giving blood after looking at the evidence a while ago.

Generally people who give blood live longer, and to be honest I can't remember the evidence why I stopped, limited telomere in the blood or something, so I'd like to know more.

You are going to have to fight researchers who are not going to outright say it's bad for you and they will love saying it's good for you.