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Posted on 12/07/2025 6:02:32 AM PST by dennisw
'My guy @drjoshredd is a magician. Had a great week of wellness starting with this awesome machine. More videos to come of other things as well.'
It is as yet unclear which 'other things' Harper is referring to, but the Phillies will certainly be hoping the medical procedures can boost the health of its $330million superstar, who is contracted through 2031 - by which time he'll be 39.
Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper has shocked fans by revealing that he has undergone a bizarre offseason procedure to remove a third of his blood from his body.
Fear not, though, baseball fans - it was returned soon after, but is just the latest cutting-edge medical treatment finding its way into the top level of sport.
Taking to Instagram, the 33-year-old - seemingly in the hope of finding a way to elongate his career and improve his health - posted a photo of himself hooked up to machines, alongside his doctor.
'EBOO is a procedure in which 1/3 of your blood is drawn from your body, passed through a filtration and ozonation device, and then returned to your bloodstream,' he explained, in a now-viral post.
He then went on to explain all the benefits, revealing: 'Circulates your blood outside your body. Exposes the blood to ozone (O₃) and will oxygenate or filter the blood before returning it to you.
'This will: Improve circulation, Reduce inflammation, Fight infections, Support immune function, Remove toxins, Increase energy.
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Hooked up to his clean machine
Lower A1c?
I understand the supposed benefits of doing this, but...who in their right mind, with the blood bank situation being what it is, would do this?
The donor blood screening process is a joke, given that they encourage homosexual men donate blood without AIDS screening.
If it were his own blood stored up and put back into him, and he was paying for it all himself, it might be different. But it sounds silly and even crazy to me.
My first thought on this was Keith Richards.
Blood letting is very healthy for us.
IIRC, even Lance Armstrong was among other things removing blood and re-injecting it.
Removing blood (a “therapeutic phlebotomy”) is healthy and necessary for specific medical conditions like iron overload (hemochromatosis) or too many red blood cells (polycyt hemia vera) to prevent organ damage.
But general bloodletting for wellness is not, and carries risks like infection or fainting.
Sounds similar to a procedure Mick Jagger and Keith Richards underwent in the 60’s? Sounds unnecessarily dangerous.
He gets his own blood back.
Recovering on a diet of Count Chocula.
There is no “donor” blood. The person’s own blood is drawn out, filtered and hit with Ozone, and returned to the patient.
Sounds wonderful. What could go wrong?
If it is his own blood and his own money being spent (as I said in my post) that is his decision and financial burden.
Seems to me there are better ways to get the benefits he touts, though.
Gross.
This seems like a lazy way to enhance performance. And...it is baseball. Not like they are athletes or anything! (ducks)
That was just a snarky, joking way of saying: if he were a long distance runner, a swimmer, a wrestler, or even a football player, I might be able to see the perceived benefit. If a golfer told me they did this as a way to enhance their game, I would wonder what part of their game they are enhancing...the ability to walk from hole to hole? Same for baseball. It isn't considered to be a high-endurance sport.
Plus, if he is doing this in the off-season, what kind of benefit does that give to his in-season performance? I cannot imagine this has effects that last more than weeks to months at at time post procedure.
But, in the end...it IS his own money (and his own blood) so...he and his money may be parted, and he thinks he gets something out of it.
This procedure does not appear to be a general blood letting - as in mere removal of some blood. There is no actual blood loss. What is removed is returned after passing through a filter and an oxygenation process.
That our blood stream can be carrying an excess of toxins that our internal blood filtering systems can be struggling to manage and not always doing a bang up job of is understood in medicine today ; and from it many different sorts of inflammation can be occurring, resulting in at best sub par health and at worst chronic ill health conditions.
The idea behind this blood treatment is to take a good degree of the blood filtering load off of the internal blood filtering organs, which not only externally achieves blood filtering but helps the internal blood filtering organs function better with a lighter load.
The toxins are to a large extent a result of a lot of the artificial things in our modern world, in our air, our water and our food. We - humans - do seem to generate more of then than does the natural world.
Yes, more primitive societies often have shorter life spans due to some major ailments that don’t get modern medical care. But they also have fewer of the modern chronic health conditions that plague many people for many years.
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