Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules
Akuchimoya@startrek.website 1 week agoBloodletting is therapeutic… for some very specific conditions. For example, hemochromatosis, where the body has too much iron, and there has been some preliminary study that blood donations are a way to reduce the amount of PFAS in blood.
But everyone has PFAS in their blood; not every male has (beyond normal) phimosis.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
From the context it’s 100% clear that I meant the medieval practice, before modern science.