Dumb Questions - Plasma Donation / HCT? Quantity? Level?

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Interesting, I have actually noticed every time that when I train after donating (I do like to wait 3-4 days to let my system recover by taking multivitamins and getting many nutrient-dense meals in me), I get a much more wicked pump during my workouts! I would think that with the reduced blood volume

Flow-mediated dilation

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Does High Hematocrit Lead to Complications for Men on TRT?

I plan on using this thread to capture comments/discussion on secondary erythrocytosis from TRT (Hct/viscosity) and cardiovascular risk. Alot of my previous comments/question/posts have been spread over a number of other’s threads. In particular, I’ve seen a number of comments (even interviews with Experts) trying to rationalize running Hct high because there’s plenty of people at high altitude that do just fine with high Hct. Truth is there are a fraction of these folks that suffer significan…

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1113/JP280141