At 4:26 PM +0100 3/24/10, Karl Järnhammer wrote:
>...I too have been wondering about the eventual benefits of donating blood.

At 3:12 AM +0000 3/25/10, Robin Temple wrote:
>There is a website stating red meat is high in iron and should be limited if one's iron is too high.
>
>What to do?

Last year I started donating blood, at LifeSource, at their maximum rate (1 pint whole blood every 8 weeks) and my iron levels dropped like a rock from my usual range of aprox. 85-115.  Lab normal here is considered to be 40-155 ug/dL.


01/08/2009    88
02/16/2009    96
03/09/2009    86
03/09/2009 blood donation
03/16/2009    73
04/06/2009    72
05/04/2009 blood donation
06/09/2009    31
07/06/2009 blood donation
07/28/2009    25

At that point I stopped donating blood, discovered paleo, started eating red meat almost every day, and took an iron supplement for a few weeks (15mg of iron per day from 300mg Iron Protein Succinylate).

08/04/2009    28
10/05/2009    42
12/08/2009    59
01/29/2010    58
03/22/2010    93

I will probably now go back to donating blood again a few times a year.

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