IIRC, even Lance Armstrong was among other things removing blood and re-injecting it.
“The origins of this aren’t new.”
Careful now. You are leaning into some interested never talked about situations concerning sports and training medicine. For many years, there have been procedures and medications used by pro sports players and teams for enhancement. And some of the ones found out about left a real problem with the public.
You’re right, but the blood cleaning is just a small part of it. Go into the pain medications and their misuse, steroid enhancement, oxygen shakes, nightly IV’s some at hospitals, and the 100’s of enhancement meds carried by the players themselves. This was really opened up when it was discovered Bill Romanowski was carrying a tackle box full of them. And he wasn’t the only one. But the fans don’t care how they get their bang for their buck, they just want it. And so do he kids in lower levels to get the big bucks.
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They reinfected the blood after the body naturally replaced what was drawn and then reinfect it before the event giving you an extra pint in the blood system.
This guy is just hooked up to a quackery machine which circulates the blood through a few hoses and a peristaltic pump and goes right back in. Nothing was removed. Just rerouted.