http://news.griffinmedical.com/news/030210-Blood_Donation.html
Blood Donation:
When on Testosterone Replacement Therapy, it will be necessary for you to donate blood on a regular basis. You may donate blood every 56 days. It is our recomendation that you donate blood at least three times per year. While participating in TRT, your hematocrit levels are likely to increase, we monitor your hematocrit levels very closely on all of your follow up lab work. By donating blood you are able to keep your hematocrit levels optimal. If your levels get to high, our physicians will have to discontinue your TRT until you are back to good levels.
Donating blood is good for your heart and entire cardiovascular system. Many physicians and cardiologists are recommending therapeutic blood donation as way to reduce cardiac risk, lower blood viscosity (thickness) and prevent iron overload. Male patients on testosterone replacement therapy tend to make an excess of red blood cells that can lead a higher blood viscosity. A simple blood test such as a CBC, can help determine if your blood is too thick. Blood viscosity, an overlooked element in blood tests, is being seen as a new major marker for identifying patients at risk for atherosclerosis. Dr Judi Goldstone of Griffin Medical Group and cardiologists Stephen Sinatra and James C. Roberts recommend therapeutic blood donation to reduce blood viscosity. Blood can be donated every three months.
Who should give blood? Provided you are not iron deficient or anemic, there are no side effects from giving blood and it helps the blood banks which are always low on blood. To lower blood viscosity, protect against iron overload and rid your cardiovascular system of inflammatory and destructive particles that can cause disease, it makes sense for most people on testosterone replacement therapy and people over age fifty to give blood one to four times a year. Men can start therapeutic donation at age thirty.
Also:
http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requirements/eligibility-criteria-topic
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Women on hormone replacement therapy for menopaGloball symptoms and prevention of osteoporosis are eligible to donate.
Read this thread:
http://www.tc-cancer.com/forum/showthread.php/11436-High-Red-Blood-Cell-Count
Blood Donation:
When on Testosterone Replacement Therapy, it will be necessary for you to donate blood on a regular basis. You may donate blood every 56 days. It is our recomendation that you donate blood at least three times per year. While participating in TRT, your hematocrit levels are likely to increase, we monitor your hematocrit levels very closely on all of your follow up lab work. By donating blood you are able to keep your hematocrit levels optimal. If your levels get to high, our physicians will have to discontinue your TRT until you are back to good levels.
Donating blood is good for your heart and entire cardiovascular system. Many physicians and cardiologists are recommending therapeutic blood donation as way to reduce cardiac risk, lower blood viscosity (thickness) and prevent iron overload. Male patients on testosterone replacement therapy tend to make an excess of red blood cells that can lead a higher blood viscosity. A simple blood test such as a CBC, can help determine if your blood is too thick. Blood viscosity, an overlooked element in blood tests, is being seen as a new major marker for identifying patients at risk for atherosclerosis. Dr Judi Goldstone of Griffin Medical Group and cardiologists Stephen Sinatra and James C. Roberts recommend therapeutic blood donation to reduce blood viscosity. Blood can be donated every three months.
Who should give blood? Provided you are not iron deficient or anemic, there are no side effects from giving blood and it helps the blood banks which are always low on blood. To lower blood viscosity, protect against iron overload and rid your cardiovascular system of inflammatory and destructive particles that can cause disease, it makes sense for most people on testosterone replacement therapy and people over age fifty to give blood one to four times a year. Men can start therapeutic donation at age thirty.
Also:
http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requirements/eligibility-criteria-topic
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Women on hormone replacement therapy for menopaGloball symptoms and prevention of osteoporosis are eligible to donate.
Read this thread:
http://www.tc-cancer.com/forum/showthread.php/11436-High-Red-Blood-Cell-Count