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Yes. By definition, Apheresis is plasma donation. I have no clue where they pay you - I would assume at the blood bank. Around here nearly 75% of the city's residents are college students so it's heavily adverstised as a way to make quick cash.

I thought you could only donate plasma once a month and blood every 6 weeks?

Can you not just extract plasma from normal blood through centrifugation? At least, you should be able to seeing as they're different densities and all that?

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Last edited by -=Dickie=- (2005-04-19 11:52 am)

don't give blood!  I was never warned but i'm a serious swimmer 6 days a week, 4 hours a day, morning and afternoon practices -- and they failed to warn me that it would affect me in practice...

If you're a serious athlete -- don't give blood!!!

elementforlife wrote:

If you're a serious athlete -- don't give blood!!!

Hmm, let's see...potentially saving someone's life...or winning that game...

and some people will take legal or illegal suppliments of all kinds too so whats your point?

to the future stars of the MLB and NBA?

Steyr AUG wrote:

Plaz McMan wrote:

elementforlife wrote:

If you're a serious athlete -- don't give blood!!!

Hmm, let's see...potentially saving someone's life...or winning that game...

Depends on how serious you are I guess. Some people are so serious they get red blood transfusions to increase their performance.

Yeah, I heard the Austrian team did something like that in the Winter Olympics, they had 2 teams, one training at altitude (the 'B' team I think) to boost red blood cell count, they then took that blood and gave it to the athletes entered in the games. Trouble is it's hard to detect this as it only leaves a normal mark, and the coaches said they had just been doing tests. There's one thing being driven enough to actually do the olympic level sport without that, but having a transfusion?! I think I'd struggle to have one if I needed it, but to have one voluntarily?! The thought makes me weak at the knees...

Just une eine question: MLB? Wassat then?

Major League Baseball.

It's called blood doping.  When you give blood you give 10-15% of your total blood content, and red blood cell count.  In less than 6 hours, you're blood is fully restored, but your red blood cell count takes 4-6 weeks to completely restore itself.  You need red blood cells because they provide the oxygen for your blood.

When you blood dope, you store your own blood months before a competition, and build back up.  At competition time, you get the transfusion, just to get those red blood cells.  It is detectable because there is a normal red blood cell count that you should have, and when someone is 10-30% over what he should be, there's a problem.

Plaz McMan wrote:

elementforlife wrote:

If you're a serious athlete -- don't give blood!!!

Hmm, let's see...potentially saving someone's life...or winning that game...

Giving blood is a great thing to do.  I did it for the troops, the more blood that is out there, the more blood there is available for our men and women in uniform.

However, I am a serious athlete, as I mentioned before, I swim 6 days a week, with practices from 430-630AM every morning and 330-530PM every afternoon, and 8-11AM on Saturdays.  This is my pre-college training to, God knows how big of a change it will be when I go to a D1 school next year.

BUT it affected me so much that it hurt my training.  I was so weak, and unfortunately coming up on a taper, so I was right in the middle of the extreme build up, before the drop down to easiness, and because I wasn't able to get everythign I should have out of the practice, it hurt me significantly in the long run.