Blood therapy, anyone? ∞
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New article about platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection! And the first completely new content in a while. PRP is my most requested topic of the last year, so I’ve finally written an article about it, which I hope is now your go-to link for some sassy, referenced PRP negativity. The conclusion was more or less inevitable, but I pried my mind open on the topic for a while before letting it snap shut again.
“Cynics can stop reading here. You know this doesn’t end well.”
“There’s lots of stuff inside of me that I do not want to be extracted, concentrated, and returned!”
“You could probably talk people into drinking a platelet smoothie if you told them it would ‘regenerate' them.”
And so on. I had fun with this one.