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Body burden dialysis exercise machine

Reduce harmful chemical "body burden" with treadmill (etc.) using dialysis new stents
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Most industrial-age people have some extraneous chemicals in their bodies (see link). I was thinking about using some kind of super dialysis machine that (for instance) filters heavy metals, to get rid of them and wondered if the new medicated stents used by surgeons could also be used to create permanent valves which people could use in dialysis. I suspect this is a bad idea simply because any crap in your body is likely to wind up in fatty tissue rather than the blood stream... Maybe hook up dialysis to an exercise machine of some kind? I'm fairly sure that this has not been tried, simply because most people who need dialysis aren't super-healthy, and also because thrashing around with one of these machines traditionally hasn't been a good idea. It might be easier with a hardy interface and a relatively gentle exercise that none-the-less burned off some calories and potentially sent a few body-burden-type chemicals on an otherwise-brief loop through the circulatory system.
cloudface, Feb 23 2004

MSN on chemicals & body burden http://content.heal...57_00000_8200_ah_01
Article about body burden chemicals [cloudface, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

All-purpose dialysis link http://www.ikidney.com/iKidney/home.htm
Kidneys-R-US site [cloudface, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

Chelation Therapy http://www.quackwat...pics/chelation.html
[bungston, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]

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       So the idea is to create permanent blood valves for use with (still to be determined) dialysis machines?   

       Problems I see:
a) Anything internal sticking through your skin will never really heal, and will be an entry point for bacteria.
b) If you're really thinking of home use, you'd better make the whole thing disposable. I'm not sure I'd trust my ability to clean yesterday's blood from my exercise machine to a sterile level.
  

       I'm not sure it could be made safe enough for anyone to use who doesn't really need to use it.
Worldgineer, Feb 23 2004
  

       People on dialysis already have permanent artificial "stents". Usually these connect an artery and a vein.   

       As for dialysis type treatments that you don't really need but you could have because you think they might help (is that the idea here?) - there are plenty of invasive things people undergo in an effort to cleanse their bodies of perceived toxins. High colonics and "chelation therapy" are two that spring to mind. Whether or not these folks would be willing to make love to the machine to achieve their goals is another question. You would have to have a good sales pitch. And herbs. Herbs always help.
bungston, Feb 23 2004
  

       Having read this again (months later) I wonder if you couldn't take it a step or two further; not only getting rid of heavy metals, etc. (OK that's starting to sound medically dubious, even to me) which might be stirred up during exercise, but make the machine a sort of dialysis-supercharger that simply scrubs out fatigue chemicals and adds stimulants and hormones in measured doses to allow for a longer, safer workout. ps Thanks to bungston for the link to chelation. Luckily, here it's not quackery, it's halfbuackery...
cloudface, Jul 05 2004
  
      
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