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Echo71Niner t1_jdyski4 wrote

That is surprising, not sure why I assumed this was a North American standard for donating blood since it was based on a scientific study.

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DumbbellDiva92 t1_jdzd7m1 wrote

IMO the American standard probably isn’t the best, feel like a lot of women would quickly become anemic by these standards. I know I did.

OTOH guess this lady did fine every 56 days? Maybe with really regular donors like that we should just be investing in periodic ferritin testing rather than focusing on setting an arbitrary timeline.

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Jaggedmallard26 t1_jdzuiqf wrote

Just look through the thread of regular donators saying they have extremely iron rich diets and still barely scrape by.

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