Want to improve glucose level, lower blood pressure - Donate some blood
- From: "randy@xxxxxxx" <randy@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 21:32:33 -0700 (PDT)
Pretty significant improvement from just 2 blood donations.
Iron Justice has been preaching this stuff for a long time.
ScienceDaily (May 29, 2012) — It seems that while the practice of
bloodletting throughout history had little or no effect on most
diseases, and the practice was abandoned in the 19th century, new
research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC
Medicine demonstrates that blood donation has real benefits for obese
people with metabolic syndrome. Two sessions of bloodletting were
enough to improve blood pressure and markers of cardiovascular
disease.
Metabolic syndrome is the name given to a host of difficulties
affecting people who are obese. This includes insulin resistance,
glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia and hypertension and leads to an
increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Since it is
known that accumulation of iron in the body is also associated with
hypertension and diabetes researchers from Berlin and University
Duisburg-Essen randomly assigned patients with metabolic syndrome into
two groups, those undergoing iron reduction by phlebotomy and
controls.
The iron-reduction patients had 300ml of blood removed at the start of
the trial and between 250 and 500ml removed four weeks later. Six
weeks later, allowing plenty of time for blood volume to be replaced,
the patients who gave blood had a significant reduction in systolic
blood pressure (from 148 mmHg to 130 mmHg) as well as reduction in
blood glucose levels and heart rate, and an improvement in cholesterol
levels (LDL/HDL ratio).
Prof Andreas Michalsen from the Charité-University Medical Centre,
Berlin, who led this research explained, "Consecutive reduction in
iron stores was able to improve markers of cardiovascular risk and
glycemic control. Consequently blood donation may prevent not just
diabetes but also cardiovascular disease for the obese. Obviously this
treatment will not be suitable for people with anemia however for
those eligible for treatment blood donation may prevent escalation of
their condition."
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