• Akuchimoya@startrek.website
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    6 个月前

    Bloodletting is therapeutic… for some very specific conditions. For example, hemochromatosis, where the body has too much iron, and there has been some preliminary study that blood donations are a way to reduce the amount of PFAS in blood.

    But everyone has PFAS in their blood; not every male has (beyond normal) phimosis.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldBanned
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      6 个月前

      From the context it’s 100% clear that I meant the medieval practice, before modern science.