Tiny gut “sponge” bacteria found to flush out toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”
Tiny gut “sponge” bacteria found to flush out toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”
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I'm waiting for people to start using leeches again to treat pfas in the blood.
That's actually a valid treatment! Although really they'd probably just take a pint here and there. When you do, the body produces new, pure blood.
Yup, most efficient is to donate plasma, can reduce levels by a third in 6 months.
Hmm I wonder if women have less pfas in the blood because of periods?
Likely so.
cries in gay and microplastic
Regular plasma donation is the most effective treatment. Blood donation works, too, but you can only donate blood every two months, versus plasma donations up to twice a week.
Isn't that just passing the PFAS on to whoever ends up getting injected with your donation?
Yes and no.
If you regularly donate, your PFAS levels will be well below average, so your blood/plasma will actually lower the recipient's concentrations. Not quite as low as it brings down your concentrations, but still lower than average.
Further, with plasma, they extract the proteins to produce various medications. That process leaves the PFAS with the remaining, depleted plasma, which is then discarded.
But, even if your concentrations are significantly above average, and the recipient receives whole blood/plasma from you, they are only receiving 1 unit from you, adding to 8 or 9 units of their own. Their net blood concentration rises only 1/8th above average as your own concentration.
The lifesaving value of your PFAS-contaminated blood is infinitely higher than the risks posed by your PFAS.
Tl;dr: Don't discard your blood.
Yeah, better to just do old fashioned bloodletting.
Too bad I pass out every time :(
Bloodletting all the way.
But donate it.