This one below makes me wonder about a blood transfusion my late husband got after he was left in the emergency waiting room for 17-hours bleeding out from c.diff. They gave him 3-pints of blood and a brutally strong antibiotic called Vancomycin and then his health really went south and he died three weeks later…
“For about 50 years, it has been known that blood transfusions damage immunity, and excess iron has been suspected to be one of the causes for this. People who regularly donate blood, on the other hand, have often been found to be healthier than non-donors, and healthier than they were before they began donating.” -Ray Peat
Thus one below struck me because a dear friend of mine eats meat heavily and big portions too, grilling every night and he has Parkinson’s, cataracts and lots of age spots.
“Excess iron’s role in infectious diseases is now well established, and many recent studies show that it is involved in degenerative brain diseases, such as Parkinson’s, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), Huntington’s chorea, and Alzheimer’s disease. Iron is now believed to have a role in skin aging, atherosclerosis, and cataracts of the lenses of the eyes, largely through its formation of the “age pigment.”
During aging, our tissues tend to store an excess of iron. There is a remarkably close association between the amount of iron stored in our tissues and the risk of death
from cancer, heart disease, or from all causes. This relationship between iron and death rate exists even during childhood, but the curve is downward until the age of 12, and then it rises steadily until death. The shape of this curve, representing the
iron burden, is amazingly similar to the curves representing the rate of death in general, and the rate of death from cancer. There is no other relationship in biology that I know of that has this peculiar shape, with its minimum at the age of 12, and its
maximum in old age at the time of death.” -Ray Peat
Author
Cari