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This is kind of sobering. Standard male levels of testosterone are between 3-7 ng/mL. Standard female levels of testosterone are between 0.1-0.7 ng/mL. And you're over 10 ng/mL of this crap? Even if this stuff is a fraction as bioactive as testosterone, having more of it might explain a few societal health trends.
>There's some research out of Australia indicating blood donation is effective at removing it from the body. Great. Another reason to regularly donate blood. And you don't even have to pay 399$!
Blood letting is back!
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Honestly, the dental floss is the most fucked PFAS application out of all of them.
What floss should one use to avoid these chemicals?
I went with Grin because they said it's PFAS free. Best I could do.
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Maybe start donating blood regularly? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Doesn't this end up in some other poor sap then? Wouldn't you want to have the blood collected and destroyed as medical hazmat, along with testing to confirm burden reduction?
So the question is whether they need the blood more than you did pre-transfusion. If they did, then you're still commiting a net positive. If not, then it serves them right for requesting a blood donation despite needing it less than did an individual who was ready to donate their own.
Unless the blood is going to research, in which case it is a net positive regardless.
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Honestly, the dental floss is the most fucked PFAS application out of all of them.
No, that is incorrect. PTFE is not a PFAS (it's chemically related, but is not the same). You are perfectly fine with PTFE dental floss - it has no reactive PFAS components in it.
This is kind of sobering. Standard male levels of testosterone are between 3-7 ng/mL. Standard female levels of testosterone are between 0.1-0.7 ng/mL. And you're over 10 ng/mL of this crap? Even if this stuff is a fraction as bioactive as testosterone, having more of it might explain a few societal health trends.
Are you saying that if you have low testosterone, you should get this test?
Correlation v. causation isn't all that well known here.
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So the "what should I do?" was the big question. Even in your OP, you said you didn't know what to do about it. Neither does the website say much other than basically "lawyer". If there is something I can do to help me, then there is a purpose to the test. This chelation you mentioned. But again, this should be a "See a doctor first" situation. What are the risks of chelation? Is it safer for me to have PFAS than go…
So far as I know chelation is not effective for PFAS, chelation is for metals. PFAS will eventually (slowly) leave your body - focus on not getting anymore, not on removing it. I posted a comment with suggestions elsewhere in this thread.
This is kind of sobering. Standard male levels of testosterone are between 3-7 ng/mL. Standard female levels of testosterone are between 0.1-0.7 ng/mL. And you're over 10 ng/mL of this crap? Even if this stuff is a fraction as bioactive as testosterone, having more of it might explain a few societal health trends.
pfas are estrogenic. And yes, it explains a few things.
Kind of a "no shit" answer, and not a real solution - you're just transferring it to someone else. Probably some moral conundrum in there about how you are worried enough to get rid of your PFAS but are giving it to someone else.