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What are the legal and illegal means of increasing your red blood cell count and how do the various methods work?
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Edward Jessop 10th February 2004 What are the legal and illegal means of increasing your red blood cell count and how do the various methods work? Blood is an obviously essential for the body. However, making the blood work more efficiently and to make it carry both more red blood (oxygen-carrying) cells and have more volume (plasma) can increase an athlete's ability to work harder. When the body increases its stores of blood cells naturally, the blood marrow in the bones is stimulated by a hormone called erythropoietin (EPO) that is released by the kidneys. The stimulus for the body to do this is when the brain detects that the tissues are receiving too little oxygen. Conversely, if cells are getting too much oxygen, EPO levels are reduced and the bones slow production of erythrocytes (red blood cells). The easiest and legal way for athletes to increase the volume of...
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