Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules
Akuchimoya@startrek.website 10 months 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 10 months ago
From the context it’s 100% clear that I meant the medieval practice, before modern science.