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BowTied Gamblooor's avatar

Extremely well presented information, I have a bottle at home and will begin taking it.

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BowTShrike's avatar

Great post! This one, along with streptokinase and staphylokinase, not being real kinases drives me nuts.

I wonder if this is something that your body adapts to, similar to aspirin. American Heart dropped daily baby aspirin from its recommendations because your body adapts to it after about a year. If I were designing a research study, I would compare cycling vs continuous.

To add more context on viruses and clotting... clotting is one of the defense mechanisms in the blood for stopping viruses (not just the one everyone now knows) and other pathogens. So some clotting is good... but too much clotting (or failing to remove the clots) kills. Your body has more layers of defense than a competent lawyer or nuclear power plant, so blocking one may not have a meaningful impact on many infections, especially in an immunocompetent adult. And if you have bigger problems (ie higher risk of clots), prioritizing minimizing the thing that can kill you is smart.

I'd also note that tPA and other fibrinolytics also help cancer cells move around. Personally, I would be careful if I had a tumor.

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