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If one wants to scrap this theory, it should be the epinephrene theory. However, live blood letting tends to have blood with high cortisol but it all evens out if the creature ate a clean diet and is young since the young have IGF binding proteins that keeps people young which the body doesn't make that protein after the mid 20's. I doubt that it's done solely for health since blood is good for the skin and their rituals are all about submitting your will to do do what you want through breaking all taboos that keep you from those goals which is a form of nominalist sophistry in ignorantly denying the good for dishonest and evil material gain. This isn't the mindset people in the past had with animal sacrifices, it's for a different more meaningful purpose. https://youtube.com/watch?v=nETGgYNRkVA [Embed]