Is there one organ in particular that is responsible for its production or is it several of them?
If ppl that haven’t bled or lost blood in years are those organs as effective at creating blood as let’s say a person that donates regularly.
What are the
benefits/implications of regular blood dumps?
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Your bone marrow. So the insides of your bones.
In kids, the majority of this happens in the femurs, but as you age your spine, hips, ribs, skull, and sternum take over.
Blood is produced in your bone marrow. Your body remains equally efficient in producing blood. Our red blood cells are constantly dying and being replaced as we speak. It’s just healthier for you to donate every now and then.
Can you donate blood safely if you have low platelet counts?
Everyone else is saying bone marrow, which isn’t wrong, but most of the volume of blood is plasma, not the cells made in bone marrow. Plasma is mostly made from water and nutrients extracted from food by the intestines, along with much smaller contributions from pretty much every organ in the body.
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>Is there one organ in particular that is responsible for its production or is it several of them?
Sort of. Blood cells are generated in the bone marrow, however the spleen also plays a major role in their development. Namely the spleen stores immature blood cells and can release more if needed. Moreover the biggest function of the spleen is to capture blood cells that have reached the end of their several weeks lifespan, become abnormal and misshapen, and consume and destroy them.
>If ppl that haven’t bled or lost blood in years are those organs as effective at creating blood as let’s say a person that donates regularly.
After donating blood a person becomes mildly anemic. The kidneys and muscles sense the reduced concentration of oxygen and produce proteins Erythropoietin and Thrombopoietin among other signals. These signaling proteins stimulate increased growth and division of several stem cells types in the marrow that produce the various kinds of blood cells.
One assumes that if one donated blood regularly, that over time the quantity and activity of progenitor stem cells in the marrow would increase.
>What are the
>benefits/
Other people’s lives are saved.
Can also help in the case of certain genetic conditions. Example, iron overload disorder
>implications of regular blood dumps?
Chronic low grade anemia.
How quickly does blood travel in your body?
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