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bile talk reminds me of...antiquity
I had not seen this - sounds very risky
https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/plasma-donations/?amp
Quote from Joe2 on August 25, 2025, 1:36 am
Is that like peeling green kiwi to get the oxalates out? What about dried figs?
The skin would be where caratenoids would be most concentrated in fruits and vegetables. I doubt if the man even knew why he did it, except that "this is how my family has always done it". I'm still not clear on how sunlight degrades caratenoids, and what the difference is between sun-dried and dried in a dehydrator. I have always used my food dehydrator in the past, but I've met with people who remember their parents having good success drying things like apples and pears beneath the rear glass of old cars in their yards.
Quote from Tanveen on August 25, 2025, 4:32 amI had not seen this - sounds very risky
https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/plasma-donations/?amp
This is why I never went in for blood donations. I know a woman with leeches on her land. They say that a leech in captivity can live up to 6 years..
Quote from Tanveen on August 25, 2025, 4:32 amI had not seen this - sounds very risky
https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/plasma-donations/?amp
First I saw this post. First I have seen that archived format too. Guess I need to read back more.
I operated Haemonetics and Fresenius Kabi machines. We used both on mobile blood drives. Terumo is used in blood centers. To correct the author, all three machines do not "filter" blood nor blood products. Apheresis is done with a centrifuge. If memory serves it runs at 7000rpm. The various components settle out in layers due to centrifigal force. Each donor gets a new sterile kit. Each kit is a strung up system of bags, tubes and the centrifuge collection bulb. That bulb rides in the machine's centrifuge cup that spins it. At the top of the bulb is a joint or bearing that spins at the effective rpm while maintaining a seal on the bulb. Blood products exposed to air are contaminated and void.
A defective kit is always a risk. Sounds like phlebotomists in France caught defective kits. Impressed. For problems to get to banning a manufacturer, some business relationships must have deteriorated due to external or internal pressures. Mergers and acquisitions are a constant in that industry. Getting kicked out of a country is a major business deal. Regulators are part of that business. Similar revolving doors to pharma industry. Not surprising since it is operated and owned by same companies and families.
With that all said, my issue with apheresis procedures is the forever chemicals necessarily infused back into the donor (and all recipients) through using polyvinyl chloride and plastic parts in the bags. Also the additives to blood products get infused back into donor and to recipients. Blood is a live product. It is a transplant. It must be kept alive and preserved. Corn syrup, sodium citrate and other chemicals are involved. I will do whole blood and not apheresi
Have discussed this here and elsewhere and with Grant.
Quote from Joseph on August 25, 2025, 7:04 pmQuote from Joe2 on August 25, 2025, 1:36 amIs that like peeling green kiwi to get the oxalates out? What about dried figs?
The skin would be where caratenoids would be most concentrated in fruits and vegetables. I doubt if the man even knew why he did it, except that "this is how my family has always done it". I'm still not clear on how sunlight degrades caratenoids, and what the difference is between sun-dried and dried in a dehydrator. I have always used my food dehydrator in the past, but I've met with people who remember their parents having good success drying things like apples and pears beneath the rear glass of old cars in their yards.
Read recently about sundried silage vs fresh spring grass for livestock. How many farmers fed sundried silage to their livestock the majority of the year. Also read recently about sundried vegetables being much much lower vA than vegetables dried without sun. Sun oxidizes and speeds breakdown of vA? Probably true in sundried fruit too? Probably true about other toxins in fruit and vegetables?
Quote from Joseph on August 25, 2025, 7:07 pmQuote from Tanveen on August 25, 2025, 4:32 amI had not seen this - sounds very risky
https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/plasma-donations/?amp
This is why I never went in for blood donations. I know a woman with leeches on her land. They say that a leech in captivity can live up to 6 years..