I would have been much more convinced by data from a controlled experiment. A lot of things could cut off flow, as you pointed out, and there are a lot of things going wrong in a dying person. I’m actually not sure why he brought rouleaux into it—my understanding is that we already know the RBCs clump and that this blocks capillaries.
In any case, the main point I was trying to make was that reducing the number of RBCs in the brain is probably not the best way to go, unless we can figure out an alternative way to supply oxygen. Destroying the RBCs and letting the hemoglobin travel freely would probably help, but that would set off all sorts of damaging physiological responses as well.
I would have been much more convinced by data from a controlled experiment. A lot of things could cut off flow, as you pointed out, and there are a lot of things going wrong in a dying person. I’m actually not sure why he brought rouleaux into it—my understanding is that we already know the RBCs clump and that this blocks capillaries.
In any case, the main point I was trying to make was that reducing the number of RBCs in the brain is probably not the best way to go, unless we can figure out an alternative way to supply oxygen. Destroying the RBCs and letting the hemoglobin travel freely would probably help, but that would set off all sorts of damaging physiological responses as well.