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2006-07-13 Thread sol
Marshall Dudley wrote: How does one measure their iron? Do you have to go to the doctor to get it done? Marshall, Where I live there are two health fairs a year, and you can have them do a ferritin test (forget if that is what they call it) as well as other blood tests, simple breathing

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2006-07-12 Thread M. G. Devour
Marshall writes: How does one measure their iron? Do you have to go to the doctor to get it done? You or your doctor have to ask the blood lab to measure your ferritin levels. It's an available test, but not usually part of the routine blood test package. Ferritin is a large, cage-like

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2006-07-12 Thread Marshall Dudley
How does one measure their iron? Do you have to go to the doctor to get it done? Marshall M. G. Devour wrote: Marshal, Thanks for the link. Confirms there's not a really good iron chelator known yet. Carol Ann, Totally independent of hemochromatosis, I've read that most males and post

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2006-07-11 Thread M. G. Devour
Marshal, Thanks for the link. Confirms there's not a really good iron chelator known yet. Carol Ann, Totally independent of hemochromatosis, I've read that most males and post menopausal women will tend to accumulate unhealthly levels of iron in their tissues because of the indiscriminate

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2006-07-10 Thread Ode Coyote
I think maybe the use of ritual symbolism is a step in dissolving a traditional *activity* similar to, The You are what you eat, so eat tiger hearts idea. Often an enemies heart or liver would be eaten to absorb the enemies fierceness...a high compliment and show of respect. It has been

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2006-07-10 Thread Carol Ann
Ode, True, That the RED CROSS may have been expecting greater causalities or seriously injured survivors is being linked directly to the govts direct role as a 9/11 participant. As to a War...justified or not, Americans certainly got one, didn't they :) As to begging for blood for

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2006-07-10 Thread Marshall Dudley
Article on iron chelation: http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/chelators.html Marshall M. G. Devour wrote: And on that (sour) note, let's not discuss the esoterica of the origins of the Red Cross or other items *NOT RELEVANT* to the health-related discussions at hand. Whether the blood I donate

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2006-07-10 Thread Carol Ann
Mike, Most men and women who donate blood for the reasons you mention do not have : Haemochromatosis, also spelled hemochromatosis, is a hereditary disease characterized by improper processing by the body of dietary iron which causes iron to accumulate in a number of body tissues, eventually

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2006-07-10 Thread Mark S. Siepak
The Red Cross via Mrs Bush was telling people to donate vast amounts of blood, would it be badly needed. What was said was that it could be frozen. Immediately called a doctor friend to verify that some new blood process was not on the market. Actually, I believe the plasma (serum, or liquid

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2006-07-10 Thread Carol Ann
What stunned me was that mrs. bush said repeatedly, the blood could be frozen for up to 10 years. At first, I thought what I heard was wrong, or that it was a mistake, until it was repeated several times. Here is some little publicized info as to what happened with the sea of blood collected

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2006-07-08 Thread M. G. Devour
And on that (sour) note, let's not discuss the esoterica of the origins of the Red Cross or other items *NOT RELEVANT* to the health-related discussions at hand. Whether the blood I donate this week ends up in the belly of a blood drinking cultist somewhere, or, more likely, the veins of a

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2006-07-08 Thread Ode Coyote
At 04:19 PM 7/7/2006 -0600, you wrote: The Red Cross was created by the very dynasties said to be ritual blood drinkers. Would that be Christians? [Rosycrutions?] Therefore, the Red Cross are, today, organized vampires fattening people up, no one ever gets a transfusion and a blood bank is

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2006-07-08 Thread Jim Holmes
To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: CSBlood typing, was Re: CSThis man's best freind At 04:19 PM 7/7/2006 -0600, you wrote: The Red Cross was created by the very dynasties said to be ritual blood drinkers. Would that be Christians? [Rosycrutions?] Therefore, the Red Cross are, today

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2006-07-08 Thread Carol Ann
: Saturday, July 08, 2006 9:26 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: CSBlood typing, was Re: CSThis man's best freind At 04:19 PM 7/7/2006 -0600, you wrote: The Red Cross was created by the very dynasties said to be ritual blood drinkers. Would that be Christians? [Rosycrutions?] Therefore

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2006-07-07 Thread debbiegerard99
Isn't giving blood supposed to be really good for you too?...debbie -- Original message -- From: sol sol...@sweetwaterhsa.com Thanks, very interesting. I've been told if I donate blood to the red cross they will type my blood. I just think it might come in handy to

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2006-07-07 Thread Marshall Dudley
Probably depends on you. If you have that problem where you accumulate iron in your blood, it could be life saving. If you are badly anemic it could be deadly. Marshall debbiegerar...@comcast.net wrote: Isn't giving blood supposed to be really good for you too?...debbie

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2006-07-07 Thread sol
So far as I know it is, particularly for men and post-menopausal women in the U.S. at least, as it reduces the level of iron in the blood, which most americans have too much of apparently. sol debbiegerar...@comcast.net wrote: Isn't giving blood supposed to be really good for you

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2006-07-07 Thread Jim Holmes
: Friday, July 07, 2006 12:54 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CSBlood typing, was Re: CSThis man's best freind Isn't giving blood supposed to be really good for you too?...debbie -- Original message -- From: sol sol...@sweetwaterhsa.com Thanks, very

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2006-07-06 Thread Mark S. Siepak
If you have had major surgery that would require more than a couple of units (pints) of serum (which I don't think needs to be typed), your type is done then, but not recorded permanently. A lot of the 'public' are in condition white, ie, unaware of what is going on or important in the world, and

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2006-07-06 Thread sol
Thanks, very interesting. I've been told if I donate blood to the red cross they will type my blood. I just think it might come in handy to know someday. My husband knows his because (as you say) it is on his dog tags from his military service. sol Mark S. Siepak wrote: If you have had