Four Benefits of Giving Blood
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Posted:Dec 22, 2016 2:09 pm
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Someone in the US needs blood every two seconds,2 so if you’re up for doing a good deed, donating blood is a phenomenal choice. More than 41,000 blood donations are needed each day, and because blood cannot be manufactured, the only way to supply this need is via generous blood donors. It’s certainly an altruistic act… but it’s also one that offers important yet little-discussed benefits.
1. Balance Iron Levels in Your Blood
In my view, this is clearly the most important reason. For each unit of blood donated, you lose about one-quarter of a gram of iron.
You may at first think this is a bad thing, since too little iron may lead to fatigue, decreased immunity, or iron-deficiency anemia, which can be serious if left untreated. This is common in and premenopausal women.
But what many people fail to realize is that too much iron can be worse, and is actually far more common than iron deficiency (especially in men and postmenopausal women).
So for many, the fact that donating blood helps to rid your body of excess iron is one of the greatest benefits it offers. It has been long known that menstruating women have fewer heart attacks. This was previously thought to be due to hormones but is now thought to be due to lower iron levels.
Similar to premenopausal women, blood donors have been found to be 88 percent less likely to suffer from a heart attack,3 and this is thought to be due to its effects on iron levels. Researchers explained:
“Because high body iron stores have been suggested as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction, of blood could theoretically reduce the risk by lowering body iron stores.”
Interestingly, in a study published in the April 2013 issue of American Journal of Public Health,4 researchers found that statin cholesterol-lowering drugs improved cardiovascular outcomes at least partially by countering the pro-inflammatory effects of excess iron stores.
In this study, the improved outcomes were associated with lower ferritin (iron) levels but not with “improved” lipid status. Researchers concluded iron reduction might be a safe and low-cost alternative to statins, and according to logic this means that donating your blood, which reduces iron, could potentially help too.
2. Better Blood Flow
Do you know what a high-sugar diet, smoking, radio frequencies, and other toxic electromagnetic forces, emotional stress, anxiety, high cholesterol, and high uric acid levels do to your blood?
All of these make your blood hypercoagulable, meaning it makes it thick and slow moving, which increases your risk of having a blood clot or stroke. Hypercoagulable blood contributes to inflammation, because when your blood does not flow well, oxygen can't get to your tissues.
For example, early (and some current) birth control pills were notorious for causing heart attacks in women. One of the mechanisms that cause this increased risk is that synthetic estrogens and progesterones increase blood viscosity.
Repeated blood donations may help your blood to flow better, possibly helping to limit damage to the lining of your blood vessels, which should result in fewer arterial blockages. (Grounding can also help to thin dangerously thick blood.) Phillip DeChristopher, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Loyola University Health System blood bank, told TIME:5
“What is clear is that blood donors seem to not be hospitalized so often and if they are, they have shorter lengths of stay… And they’re less likely to get heart attacks, strokes, and cancers.”
3. You Get a Mini Physical
Every blood donor gets a “mini physical” prior to . Your temperature will be checked along with your blood pressure, pulse, and hemoglobin. Your blood will also be tested for 13 infectious diseases like HIV, hepatitis B and C, West Nile Virus, and syphilis.
Donating blood is certainly not a replacement for medical care, but it does give you a (free) glimpse into your health (as well as notice if you’ve been exposed to an infectious disease without knowing).
4. A Longer Life
People who volunteer for altruistic reasons, i.e. to help others rather than themselves, appear to live longer than those who volunteer for more self-centered reasons. Altruistic volunteers enjoyed a significantly reduced risk of mortality four years later according to one study,6 with the study’s lead author noting
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Donating Blood for Orlando's 53 wounded!
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Posted:Jun 23, 2016 1:44 pm
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It has been 5 years since I last donated blood to the Continental Blood Bank at Broward Blood Bank at 2901 W. Broward Blvd. Ft. Lauderdale FL 33312
Donating Blood. You only received $15.00 but now it gone up to $30.00 and and extra $2.00 if you pump extra! A friend on FB inspired me to do it for the Orlando Fiasco! I used to be on here as Pictureman6911 but ADF rejected me after my Pitt Bull killed a cat and I got 3 yrs and 2 years Probation. Weill my four hired a lawyer and appealed the sentence and I got out after 15 months all charges dropped! So I copied this from blog I did 5 years ago!
Posted ct 28, 2011 4:47 pm
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I went to donate blood for the first time! They asked me all kind of questions like did I have sex with a prositute? Did I have tatoos? etc They took a sample of my blood to see if I had enough iron and to determine my blood type which is A. My girl friend missed by 2 points so she could not donate her blood, I bought her some iron tablets and we have to wait 2 days and eat food that is rich in iron. They will notify me if my blood is infected by HIV or VD which is handy! I am allowed to donate every 2 months, it good way to check for HIV and get an extra $15.00 They paid me in 1 dollar bills! It was not bad you lie in a comfortabe reclining chair and it takes about 20 min, while you pump a ball! The faster you pump the faster the blood flows out of you.
How do like this Tatoo? You can donate blood and have a tatoo as I saw several men the the blood bank and they had a tatoo! Have you ever donated blood? If so how much did you get paid and what is your blood type?
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Four Benefits of Giving Blood
Someone in the US needs blood every two seconds,2 so if you’re up for doing a good deed, donating blood is a phenomenal choice. More than 41,000 blood donations are needed each day, and because blood cannot be manufactured, the only way to supply this need is via generous blood donors. It’s certainly an altruistic act… but it’s also one that offers important yet little-discussed benefits.
1. Balance Iron Levels in Your Blood
In my view, this is clearly the most important reason. For each unit of blood donated, you lose about one-quarter of a gram of iron.
You may at first think this is a bad thing, since too little iron may lead to fatigue, decreased immunity, or iron-deficiency anemia, which can be serious if left untreated. This is common in and premenopausal women.
But what many people fail to realize is that too much iron can be worse, and is actually far more common than iron deficiency (especially in men and postmenopausal women).
So for many, the fact that donating blood helps to rid your body of excess iron is one of the greatest benefits it offers. It has been long known that menstruating women have fewer heart attacks. This was previously thought to be due to hormones but is now thought to be due to lower iron levels.
Similar to premenopausal women, blood donors have been found to be 88 percent less likely to suffer from a heart attack,3 and this is thought to be due to its effects on iron levels. Researchers explained:
“Because high body iron stores have been suggested as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction, of blood could theoretically reduce the risk by lowering body iron stores.”
Interestingly, in a study published in the April 2013 issue of American Journal of Public Health,4 researchers found that statin cholesterol-lowering drugs improved cardiovascular outcomes at least partially by countering the pro-inflammatory effects of excess iron stores.
In this study, the improved outcomes were associated with lower ferritin (iron) levels but not with “improved” lipid status. Researchers concluded iron reduction might be a safe and low-cost alternative to statins, and according to logic this means that donating your blood, which reduces iron, could potentially help too.
2. Better Blood Flow
Do you know what a high-sugar diet, smoking, radio frequencies, and other toxic electromagnetic forces, emotional stress, anxiety, high cholesterol, and high uric acid levels do to your blood?
All of these make your blood hypercoagulable, meaning it makes it thick and slow moving, which increases your risk of having a blood clot or stroke. Hypercoagulable blood contributes to inflammation, because when your blood does not flow well, oxygen can't get to your tissues.
For example, early (and some current) birth control pills were notorious for causing heart attacks in women. One of the mechanisms that cause this increased risk is that synthetic estrogens and progesterones increase blood viscosity.
Repeated blood donations may help your blood to flow better, possibly helping to limit damage to the lining of your blood vessels, which should result in fewer arterial blockages. (Grounding can also help to thin dangerously thick blood.) Phillip DeChristopher, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Loyola University Health System blood bank, told TIME:5
“What is clear is that blood donors seem to not be hospitalized so often and if they are, they have shorter lengths of stay… And they’re less likely to get heart attacks, strokes, and cancers.”
3. You Get a Mini Physical
Every blood donor gets a “mini physical” prior to . Your temperature will be checked along with your blood pressure, pulse, and hemoglobin. Your blood will also be tested for 13 infectious diseases like HIV, hepatitis B and C, West Nile Virus, and syphilis.
Donating blood is certainly not a replacement for medical care, but it does give you a (free) glimpse into your health (as well as notice if you’ve been exposed to an infectious disease without knowing).
4. A Longer Life
People who volunteer for altruistic reasons, i.e. to help others rather than themselves, appear to live longer than those who volunteer for more self-centered reasons. Altruistic volunteers enjoyed a significantly reduced risk of mortality four years later according to one study,6 with the study’s lead
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TAKING A PEE!-
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Posted:Oct 24, 2015 2:37 pm
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I am fine except the other morning I was going to the bathroom about 1:30 am lost my balance and fell backwards into the shower, put my left hand down to break the fall and sprained my ring finger and middle finger and cut the tendon of the middle finger. Also dislocated both fingers! Was taken by ambulance to the Emergency Room where they did dislocation of my fingers, took Xrays no broken bones. gave me sutures for the wound and gave me a tetnus shot! I forgot my wallet so the Hospital paid for my $12.00 Cab fee back Home! BTW today I turned 85 years young and I am still fucking!
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I tried to enter the on and off contest!
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Posted:Sep 30, 2014 6:59 pm
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However for some reason it would not let me download the picture? By then it was too late to enter! So decided that would download it to my profile picture but it was declined as Affairlook did not recocgnize the second picture since I have grown a beard and mustach you think? But both pictures I have it but both are different the the one I have as the primary and I am clean shaven. So decided to put it on my blog! I now it too late and past the deadline! But at least some of you will see it!
YOU BAD YOU GOOD
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Happy Holidays Everybody!
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Posted:Dec 25, 2011 7:13 pm
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I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends on Affairlook a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
The girl in the pictures has recently moved in with me! As she has the Christmas Spirit she decortrated my Florida Room! The reason I have 2 pictures of me is because I like my smile in the first one and the second I timed the picture just right for the star to lite UP!
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Is it an Hawk or Osprey?
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Posted:Nov 24, 2011 10:11 am
Last Updated:Nov 21, 2017 9:15 am
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This afternoon I spotted an osprey way up an Australian Pine with a fish in his claws, across the river from my dock! I got my camera out and tripod to take telephoto pictures of it but my battery was too low so had to charge the battery real fast! So I was lucky to get these shots!
The common names of birds in various parts of the world often use hawk in the second sense. For example, the Osprey or "fish hawk"; or, in North America, the various Buteo species (e.g., the Red-tailed Hawk, B. jamaicensis).
The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), sometimes known as the sea hawk or fish eagle, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts, with a black eye patch and wings.
The Osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. It is found on all continents except Antarctica although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant.
As its other common name suggests, the Osprey's diet consists almost exclusively of fish. It has evolved specialised physical characteristics and exhibits unique behaviour to assist in hunting and catching prey. As a result of these unique characteristics, it has been given its own taxonomic genus, Pandion and family, Pandionidae. Four subspecies are usually recognised. Despite its propensity to nest near water, the Osprey is not a sea-eagle.
In February 2005, the Canadian ornithologist Louis Lefebvre announced a method of measuring avian "IQ" in terms of their innovation in feeding habits.[1] Hawks were named among the most intelligent birds based on his scale. Hawks are widely reputed to have visual acuity several times that of a normal human being. This is due to the many photoreceptors in the retina (up to 1,000,000 per square mm for Buteo, against 200,000 for humans), an exceptional number of nerves connecting these receptors to the brain, and an indented fovea, which magnifies the central portion of the visual field.[2][3]
[edit] References1.^ EurekAlert! Public News List:Bird IQ test takes flight - Dr. Lefebvre's AAAS presentation - Feeding innovations and forebrain size in birds (Monday, February 21,
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I am a blood doner!
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Posted:Nov 8, 2011 6:26 pm
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I went to donate blood for the first time! They asked me all kind of questions like did I have sex with a prositute? Did I have tatoos? etc They took a sample of my blood to see if I had enough iron and to determine my blood type which is A. My girl friend missed by 2 points so she could not donate her blood, I bought her some iron tablets and we have to wait 2 days and eat food that is rich in iron. They will notify me if my blood is infected by HIV or VD which is handy! I am allowed to donate every other month, it good way to check for HIV and get an extra $15.00 They paid me in 1 dollar bills! It was not bad you lie in a comfortabe reclining chair and it takes about 20 min, while you pump a ball! The faster you pump the faster the blood flows out of you.
Have you ever donated blood? For Money? Do you know your blood type?
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My Testosterone was Too High!
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Posted:Nov 3, 2011 3:06 pm
Last Updated:Jan 8, 2015 7:26 pm
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Some times I have a hard time ejaculating and my partner complains about getting sore(although I use lubricant) and I have to quit fucking with out ejaculating! I don't mind if she is able to have multipble orgasms. I thought this was because Testosterone level was too low so I asked the VA to check them but for some reason, would not do it but gave me Verdanafil which is a generic for Lavitra. I do not use anymore!
I answered an add in the New Times, they wanted men who had dificulty ejaculating and semen was of low volume, I had an appoint at 8:10 but arrived 7:50 am but that was OK they took blood and gave me a physical, asked questions and I had to read about the study and inetial each page. You put a paste under your arms and fill out a Sexual Activity Log, of vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse, masturbation and oral sex. There must be a minimum of 2 days without sexual activity between each sexual activity event, including prior go ghd masturbation requirement at your next visit. As per protocol, you are required to: make at least 4 sexual intercourse(vaginal)attempts over the next 4 weeks.
I finally finished at the doctor's office by 9:30 and was presented with a $40.00 check!
I was looking forward to participate in the study, when I got a message on my cell phone that my blood work came back and I could not do the study because my levels were too high! I called her back and learned my Testosterone Level was 648 which was too high for the study! I was surprised but I guess the fact that I work out at BTF 5 days a week was the reason plus I started lifting more weights. The average level is 260 to 300. If you are a man younger then 25 the average would be 692. Have you checked your level if so how old are you and what are they?
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Yesterday was my Birthday!
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Posted:Oct 25, 2011 3:17 pm
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I had a great time yesterday with cake and icecream and of course fucking! I turned 81 year old and I do not feel old at all. My Blood Presure was an excellent 117/52 and my weight was 160 lbs, I weighed first thing in the morning after peeing. I do not need viagra and I do not take meds which is pretty good for an old cowdger like me!
Picture taken of me last night Oct 24, 2011!
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Foto Friday= WHEELS
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Posted:Jan 14, 2011 1:13 pm
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At SeniorFriendFinder we have a photo contest and the subject this Friday is WHEELS!
My wheels are my 2007 Dodge Magnum R/T Hemi! I took a picture of it and one of its wheels then walked around the neijborhood and took pictures of more wheels! I like the way my Hemi drives with the extra pick up but the gas mileage is terrible. When I bought it I was told the engines runs on 4 cylinder when cruising and I would save gas. When I went to NC in July of 2008 I got 22 mpg but it still cost a fortune at the gas price was over $4.00 a gal! Around town I only get 12 to 14 mpg! Gas prices are already over $3.00 a gal here in Fort Lauderdale!
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41st Rough Water Swim--NOT
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Posted:Jan 8, 2011 5:08 pm
Last Updated:Jan 13, 2011 10:50 am
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It was a beautiful day and ocean was calm as a lake without a wave in sight! The water was cold when I first got in but I got used to it, the temperture went up to 76 degrees. When they changed the name to the above title it was indeed rough the first 2 years but thank god it was calm to day. I wish I took my camera with me! Here is another picture and blog 2 years ago showing a very Rough Water Swim! Start of the rough water swim 2nd attempt for right PIX
BTW I won first in my age division 80 to 85! This is the first year they gave a decent medal, before they were bronze and even ball point pens and key chains!
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Today I turn 80 years young!
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Posted:Oct 24, 2010 2:24 pm
Last Updated:Jan 14, 2019 6:13 pm
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I am probably the oldest fucker on Affairlook. But I am in good health and still very active! I go 4 or 5 days to BTF gyms in Davie, FL from 9:30 to 12:30 taking classes, pilates, yoga and power flex, using the exercise machines. I also swim in their pool, use the steam room, sauna and jacuzzi. I try to eat the right kind of foods. I scuba dive frequently having my own boat which I keep behind my home on Tarpon River. I love to have sex and truly believe it keeps you young. I have a BP monitor and noticed just yesterday after having sex, my blood pressure was 1l5/59! My fuckbuddy told my friend yesterday that I fuck like a 29 year old! I used to use vardarnifil which I got from the VA but have discovered Mojo Risen and it last for 3 days, I am fucking again after my birthday dinner of steak, jumbo shrimp, broccoli, sweet potato and ice cream no cake for me, too much sugar!
I will be training to swim the one mile rough water swim at the end of the year! I should win first place in my age division!
This is a recent picture of me taken at the Jazz Fest Oct 3, 2010!
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Foto Friday--My Work Station
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Posted:Oct 22, 2010 7:38 pm
Last Updated:Oct 22, 2010 7:40 pm
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Every Friday at SeniorFriendFinder we have a different subject to photograph and it is a fun assignment and keeps us busy!
The wooden table I got used for $10.00 way back in 1964 is from my studio downtown, notice the colorful table cover! I am in my Florida Room 30'x 20' which I added to my home in 1978. This table is big enough to put my HP all in one scanner to the left, my Dell moniter screen in the middle, and Dell computer tower on the right. I can look out the window and see my boat and backyard. The property across the river does not have a seawall and the trees block the view of the house. I am only 7 blocks from downtown yet it very quiet and peaceful here, sometimes I hear sirens from ambulances going to the near by hospital. There are peacocks across the river on Rose Dr!ve and I hear them calling occasionally!
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