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So I just went and donated blood again and durring the recovery period it occured to me that it takes quite a bit of work for your body to regenerate that lost blood volume and the actual blood cells. Regrowing that many cells seems like it would be fairly energetically intensive. So how many calories does producing all those new blood cells actually consume? Is there even a way to know that?

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh man, instead of my daily workout, I could just donate daily! After a few months, I’d be a blood making machine!

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But once your body gets used to pumping out so much extra blood, if you skip donate day you will plump up and explode

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah man, I’ll look vascular and jacked!!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

"I'm cultivating mass!"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think that's calld having track marks.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're however old you are now and still not a blood making machine, I'd say see a doctor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a chronically anemic person, I need other people's blood making machines.

Go donate if you can! I will take your sweet, sweet red blood cells.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm at nearly 50 donations (each 0.5L) of sweet sweet O+. Apparently, my blood is really good for children since I've never contracted some specific disease.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That would be CMV. Newborn babies and pregnant women and cancer kids need CMV-negative blood (if they need a blood transfusion). Thank you for donating.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_betaherpesvirus_5

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m O+. We should be friends!