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Who knew that there might be risks from injecting pieces of other people's bodies into your own?


> injecting pieces of other people's bodies

I've had this done. They draw your own blood and run it through a centrifuge to extract the plasma. there is NO reason the people getting this should have had to worry if not for the complete and other negligence and callousness of th clinic.


>I've had this done.

without really any supporting evidence for efficacy, why? not snark, curiosity.

>there is NO reason the people getting this should have had to worry if not for the complete and other negligence and callousness of th clinic.

this is true of tattoo parlors, too -- but they are a common and repeated disease vector even under regulation.

Someone gets sick, they close and re-hire under a new proprietor. The practices clean up for awhile, until they aren't.


Do you think the staff making minimum wage (or less) at a salon are qualified to do that? Is this a regulated industry with certification for these treatments? Genuinely asking because I barely feel comfortable having my blood drawn at an actual medical lab by a random worker.


Well, it's supposed to be injecting bits of your own body. But when the place doesn't even own an autoclave and reuses disposable equipment, I suppose you get what you pay for.


> you get what you pay for

that's not always the case -- there are plenty of places where the prices are rocket-level but services dismal

you can hide a lot using marketing...


Then there is the whole thing about the procedure having no effect anyway which is easy to find out.


Oh, that makes much more sense, I misunderstood the description of the procedure.

Edit: But it still sounds like an insane thing to do.


It's (supposed to be) their own, not someone else's.

The place was reusing needles and whatnot.




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