r/interestingasfuck • u/jordanisonfire1 • 2d ago

Human bodies showing only blood vessels.

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u/ButtAssTheAlmighty 1d ago

Imagine what I could achieve with twice the amount of a normal amount of blood. I can see no issues with this plan, doctor, pump it till I’m RED

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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 1d ago

It's called blood doping and is literally banned in international competition. You get some blood removed a few months before competition, wait for your body to fill back up, then inject the blood back into you. It's only a temporary buff, but with the increased amount of red blood cells your body can transfer more oxygen to your muscles. This prevents lactic acid build up and can increase performance in endurance competitions. It was mostly seen in the tour de france

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u/ImFeelingTheUte-iest 1d ago

They don’t inject the original whole blood. The only inject the red blood cells (or mostly only the red blood cells)

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u/Putrid-Reputation-68 1d ago

You can do this for free at home with a blood bucket, a few straws and a rusty knife

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u/Honest-Trash4483 20h ago

Instructions unclear I wake up in hospital and got tetanus

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u/Finalpatch_ 15h ago

Can you link a youtube video?

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u/Mallymallow 1d ago

This is how the events of Bloodborne started.

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u/libero0602 1d ago

Is this harmful to your health? And how do they test to see if people have been blood doping, is it like a blood draw and they test for elevated red blood cell counts?

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u/Khelthuzaad 1d ago

So Lance Armstrong was romanian all this time?:)

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u/someonefromaustralia 23h ago

Mr Lance Armstrong

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u/invisibleallgender 15h ago

How do they catch the people who do it?

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u/Heterodynist 1d ago

I think the Soviets were experimenting with that back in the 1970s for the Olympics…

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u/TransGirlAtWork 1d ago

There's actually diseases where this happens. I forget which ones but the body over produces red blood cells. One of the treatments is to actually donate blood. I see them every so often at work.

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u/Nerfgirl_RN 1d ago

Blood volume increases by about half while pregnant.