The blood thinner cure

There is a book written by Dr. Kenneth Kensey called 'The Blood Thinner Cure" he says that giving blood a couple of times a year thins your blood, there was a study in Finland saying that those that gave blood had less heart attacks and strokes. The more red blood cells you have the thicker your blood.

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Liz

Hi Liz - Always an important topic. That book was published in 2001. Dr. Kensey was involved with the pioneering organization he founded (Rheologics) in the fields of hemodynamics and interventional cardiology... and I recall that Dr. Ralph Holsworth had worked with him in that regard. Dr. H. was developing his form of nattokinase - the profibrinolytic enzyme. He always had good things to say Dr. Kensey's research findings.

Dr. Kensey died in an auto accident (2009), as I recall. Here's a more current report on the dynamics of hemorheology that helps elaborate on the initial findings and explains the viscosity issue relating to shear stress and "thick, sticky blood issues" as I recall. We did have a thread going back on the forum about this back then. but don't know if the link is still active.

Jackie
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Title: Blood Viscosity: The Unifying Parameter In Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Wednesday, 29 February 2012 18:14 By Ralph E. Holsworth, Jr., DO & Jonathan V. Wright, MD - Vol. 13, No. 1. Spring, 2012

A quick search on the PubMed database reveals nearly 1,000 scientific papers linking blood viscosity to cardiovascular disease events and risk factors.

Friends,

Perhaps this is the thread that Jackie refers to?

--Lance