Did you know that regular blood donation might be one of the most healthy disciplines you could ever do for your health and longevity?

Better than coffee enemas?

Yes.

Better than regular sauna bathing?

You better believe it.

Better than drinking drinking the cleanest water ever?

Yep.

Better than the ideal diet.

Hell ya!

How could the benefits of giving blood, be more healthy than all of what’s listed above?

It has to do with depleting substances in your blood that cause poor health like deuterium, (iron in excess), chemicals, plastics & heavy metals).

I first learned about blood donation when I listened to Morley Robbins do a podcast back in November of 2014. He mentioned many of the health benefits of giving blood have to do with the idea of “Dumping Iron” from your body, which he claims causes inflammation due to the Fention Reaction. That is when iron (a metal) comes in contact with light, heat and oxygen it leads to oxidative stress.

In the Fenton reaction, iron (specifically in its ferrous state, Fe2+) acts as a catalyst, reacting with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to generate highly reactive hydroxyl radicals (OH•), which can oxidize a wide range of organic compounds; essentially, iron is the key metal component that drives this oxidation process by facilitating the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide into free radicals. – Source

Think of a piece of metal (the iron inside your body) sitting outside in the backyard for a month. Due to it’s high reactivity to the ennvironment (infrared heat from the sun, light from the sun and oxygen in our atmosphere) it will rust.

The same case is made for what happens to the organs, glands and tissues in your body.

You are rusting internally.

Sounds great doesn’t it? Lol

There are 2 main ways to deal with that rusty metal in your backyard..

1. Don’t put it outside (which means don’t take iron supplements)
2. If you do put it outside, do something to the iron to protect it from rusting (essentially this is the Root Cause Protocol)

The other side of the equation is run by Caitlyn R Hartigan who runs the private Facebook group called The Iron Protocol (for Iron Deficiency with or without Anemia).

These two groups are diametrically opposed and are at war with eachother online.

For what it’s worth I like to take the middle path.

My caveat here is to work with a natural doctor who knows what they’re doing. Sadly medical doctors just don’t keep up with the research (in fact they’re pretty dangerous) and really know nothing of value when it comes to these issues.

Morley recommends that men donate blood four times per year while premneopausal women should donate twice per year and post menopausal women should donate four times per year just like guys.

I don’t recommend that. What I recommend is getting your blood checked to see what your iron and mineral status is. Then I recommend diving into the RCP protocol and Caitlyn’s iron protocol and see which one  you feel most comfortable with and then acting accordingly.

A common question I get a lot is “Person ABC says 123 and yet Person XYZ say 456. Who do you think is right?”

I always put it back on the person. In this case Morley says iron is toxic and we don’t need any more of it. The RCP community says we need to make sure it’s activated (via copper, ceruloplasmin activation and 13 cys retinoic acid) and moving in the body. He has hundreds of cases where he’s brough people’s health back.

Then Caitlyn tells her group to get iron infusions (if necessary) and also hundreds of people have recovered from debilitating conditions using her protocol.

Who’s protocol is right? Is there even a “right” when it comes to your health?

The answer is it depends on you and our current condition. Today Morley’s RCP protocol might be the thing you need. In 10 years you may benefit from Caityln’s protocol.

Two different protocols might work on the same person at different times in their lives.

Anyway I got off on a tangent.

The long and short of bringing that up is to work with a doctor you trust but more importantly trust your intuition. It will always guide you.

Personally I donate blood twice per year and feel absolutely great doing it. I cannot recommend that to you as I’m not a medical doctor (thank God cause they’re all bought and paid for) and cannot give medical advice.

Plus curing people like you is just bad for business, everybody knows that.

1. Decreases Heart Attack Risk

Did you know that donation of blood on a regular basis can reduce the risk of heart attacks by as much as 44% all the way up to 88%? If only people knew this information.

Most people will let their doctor talk them into taking a Statin drug if they have high cholesterol.

What does high cholesterol have to do with heart attacks you ask?

Well nothing really but medical doctors have convinced their patients that high choleserol leads to a heart attack (which is not true). So they’ll use fear to convince their patients to start taking a statin drug which has many side effects (like dementia, diabetes, low tesosterone levels (see remedy), poor cognitive function, poor sleep (see remedy), cateracts, cancer, focal myositis, memory loss and the list goes on) but it only reduces absolute heart attack risk by 1%.

Safety, life-saving efficacy of statins have been exaggerated, says scientist

The absolute risk refers to the effect of the drug on the population. Studies have shown that statins only benefit about 1% of the population. However, relative risk transforms that 1% figure into 30-50%. – Source

Why would you take a drug that has all those side effects that doesn’t even work that well?

Why?

Whether it’s the iron being removed from your body or not, there’s a clear causal effect of the benefits of giving blood in relation to cardiovascular disease.

“2,862 men ages 42 to 60 were observed for an average of nine years. Only one man out of 153 (0.7%) who had donated blood had an acute myocardial infarction (“heart attack”) from 1984 to 1995, as compared with 316 of 2,529 men (12.5%) who hadn’t donated blood. After all the usual “research adjustments”—age and all other predictive coronary risk factors—the blood-donating men had 88% less risk of acute myocardial infarction as compared with non-blood-donating men. (For the technically inclined, the difference between 0.7% and 12.5% had a p<0.0001. For the non-technically inclined, that means it’s really, really significant!) The researchers wrote, “These findings suggest that frequent blood loss through voluntary blood donations may be associated with a reduced risk of acute myocardial infarction in middle-aged men.” – Source

Those who give blood regularly have less heart attacks.

Fact check that.

It turns out that premenopausal women have a very low rate of heart attacks. Most women who have heart attacks are women who are premenopausal but not menstruating or they’re postmenopausal.

You almost never hear of women having heart attacks that have regular bleeding cycles.

2. Decreases Stroke Risk

Everybody knows what a heart attack is but many people don’t know exactly what a stroke is. A stroke is essentialy a heart attack of the brain. Donating blood reduces overall blood volume and therefore “viscocity” or thickness which can lead to strokes.

Imagine a pipe made out of concrete (this would be a person with high calcium levels in their body) but you’re trying to put through that pipe a thick sludge very quickly.

Now imagine a “pipe” made out of a flexible plastic (like a baloon that can stretch, bend, expand and contract) and you’re trying to put through water very quickly.

The first example is like every person in our culture that eats the Standard American Diet rich in calcium, seed oils (the antidote to PUFA’s is Vitamin E), iron, chemicals and heavy metals. Eventually your “pipes” (veins, arteries) become like concrete. Your blood also becomes thick.

Giving blood regularly has the ability to thin the blood so that it doesn’t cause abrasions at the branch points (where they bend and change shape) that leads to both heart attacks and strokes.

“another research study involving women (and men) donating blood and risk of heart attack and stroke. In a five-to-eight-year follow-up of 1,807 women and 2,048 men ages 63 to 95, cardiovascular events (heart attack, stroke) were reported by 64 blood donors (9.77%) and 567 non-donors (17.72%; p<0.001). That’s a 45% risk reduction.” – Source

If this sounds interesting to you, there’s a really great book called The Blood Thinner Cure that goes into really good detail about how it all works. Worth the read if you want to avoid heart attacks or strokes.

3. Activates the Iron Recycling Program

Iron is a metal that does have the potential to rust inside the body and cause oxidative stress. Whether you believe in the RCP protocol or the high iron protocol the iron recycling system always needs to be working.

A key copper dependent enzyme for allowing iron to exit cells is called ferroportin. When there’s a dramatic and acute lose of blood the body activates these enzymes through the fight or flight stress response mechanism.

When iron can is allowed to enter the cell effectively and exit while being transported through the body to the bone marrow, it means it’s always moving and contained within these structures.

Turns out giving blood is seen as an acute stress response that activates these key enzymes to mobilize the iron recycling system which is also known as the reticulo endothelial system.

Think of giving blood like working out. It’s a major stressor to your system but it also “wakes up” and turns on enzymes to start working.

One of the bigges benefits of giving blood is activating the iron recycleing system so your body can utizize oxygen via hemogolobin and create new red blood cells.

4. Deuterium Depletion

Deuterium is also called heavy hydrogen. It’s a hydrogen molecule with one proton and one neutron attached to its nucleus. Deuterium accumulates in our blood.

We get deuterium from many types of food and liquids.

Your body makes adenosine triphosphate (ATP, energy) in complex 5 in your mitochondria called ATP synthase. This is a spinning nano motor that aids in the process of making cellular energy. It literally spins (and gives off a magnetic field from your body that’s measurable) at 9,000 revolutions per minute.

Deuterium (heavy hydrogen) prevents these spinning nanomotors in your mitochondria from working and making energy.

Since health (or lack therof) is all about making energy, you can see why deuterium depletion is so critical. This is why deuterium is at the heart of my anti cancer protocol.

Imagine running a mile around a track but you have a forty pound weight vest on, and ten pound ankle weights around each ankle along with having to carry a tweny pound kettlbe bell in each hand and tied around your waist is a sled pulling two forty five pound weight plates.

Now imagine a person who has none of that attached and how fast they could run. Imagine how much energy they’d have.

Depleting the body of deuterium allows your body to make energy more effectively with less exhaust. Think of the output of a car that runs on hydrogen and water vs a car that runs on gas. You could literally breathe in the fumes of the former but doing so with the latter will kill you.

Making energy cleanly with little to no waste is what deuterium depletion allows you to do.

You can avoid foods and water that’s high in deuterium and also drink deuterium depleted water but you what the most powerful way to deplete your body of deuterium is?

Giving blood.

I’ll put a show we did all about deuterium below that I think you’ll find interesting.

5. Chemicals Plastics & Heavy Metals

In your blood, you store heavy metals, plastics and chemicals we’re exposed to on a daily basis. We know that heavy metals prevent electrons from passing over the inner mitochondrial membrane which prevents energy (ATP) production.

Plastics and chemicals do the same. Essentially they “gum up the system” causing every cell to function less optimally.

Giving blood quickly depletes your body of these harmful substances in a safe way.

Because of our toxic overload and toxic environment, I do recommend doing cleanses multiple times per year to detoxify them from our system using the liver, colon, lungs and kidneys to do so.

But an overlooked method of detoxification is giving blood regularly. Blood donation can be a superior way to get these substances out of your body.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) did a study in 2005 that found 287 environmental contaminants in umbilical cord blood. Can you believe that? These included chemicals that cause cancer, are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests. The placental cord blood of newborn babies was tested for 413 different industrial chemicals and found to be positive for 287 of these substances, which included PCB’s, mercury, DDT, dioxin, fluorinated hydrocarbons, organophosphates, and many other categories of POP’s. – Source

6. Reduce Cancer Risk

Cancer is one of the top 3 causes of death world wide. Most people die from either heart disease or cancer of some kind. Shockingly enough doctors are the 3rd leading cause of death.

You could make the case the most of the people dying from either cancer or heart disease are under the care of a doctor, that doctors could be the #1 #2 and #3 causes of death worldwide.

But regardless donating blood reduces the risk of heart disease through lowering iron stores but also decreasing viscocity. It would make sense that the benefits of giving blood also extend to preventing cancers.

Is there any evidence to support this?

Funny you should ask….

Cancer Incidence and Mortality in a Cohort of US Blood Donors: A 20-Year Study

“Studies have suggested a lower incidence of cancer diagnosis and mortality in blood donors. Merk et al. and Edgren et al. estimated cancer incidence in Swedish donors and Swedish and Danish donors, respectively, and showed lower incidence of cancer—including hematological malignancies—in blood donors” – Source

Final Thoughts

Just remember, when giving blood not only are you depleting the body of chemicals, heavy metals, plastics, deuterium and iron but you’re also thinning the blood (which is a good thing) but in so doing, you’re also depleting your body of vitamins and minerals that are stored in your blood.

I recommend making sure that right after you donate (if you choose to do so) you eat a solid healthy meal of healthy fats and clean protein. I usually like to take a clean jerky bar with me to eat right after I donate with an avocoado as a snack. Sometimes I might throw in a Kombucha as well. Then I’ll come home to have lunch and with it, I’ll take my Shilajit and a one ounce shot of my favorite vitamin mineral fulvic acid complex called Intramax.

After giving blood, they’ll usually have you sit for 15 minutes and offer you some high iron snacks full of pesticides, seed oils and chemicals.

I always turn these down as it defeats the purpose of giving blood.

It’s nice to restore nutrition after a blood donation. Giving blood is similar to throwing up in that you rid the body of (say rotten food you’ve consumed) but also key nutients as well. I like to restore them quickly after giving blood for this reason.

There are many benefits of giving blood but also some downsides when it comes to iron as well. I write this so that you can add this to your health stack if you feel like it might be good for your body at this time.

Questions:

1. Do you donate blood?
2. If so, how often?
3. If not, are you going to start?