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Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study

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Post by loaph »

tyronehed wrote: post #36

This means anybody who gets a blood donation is getting a nice dose of forever chemicals.

If you're getting a blood donation, you've likely lost a lot of blood that is being made up by the donation. So you lost blood and by extension forever chemicals and are replacing blood and by extension forever chemicals. I bet it's a wash as far as +- chemicals.

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Post by colechristensen »

1024core wrote: post #17

Could you just filter your blood externally, dialysis-style, and get rid of these chemicals that way?

I would much rather lose blood than require my body to try to rebalance what a dialysis machine disrupted.

A filter which excludes all of the things you don’t want in your blood and left anything besides plain water would be hard, not worth the trouble.

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Post by munk-a »

Pulcinella wrote: post #52
1024core wrote: post #17

Could you just filter your blood externally, dialysis-style, and get rid of these chemicals that way?

Perhaps these sorts of chemicals re not particularly water soluble? Otherwise you kidneys could just filter them out into your urine.

Even if the body doesn't have the equipment built in to deal with it it's not a stretch to believe that we could build an external machine specialized to the task - whether dialysis machines can do it on their own or not I'm uncertain.

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Post by MiddleEndian »

treeman79 wrote: post #15
MiddleEndian wrote: post #4

I shall have my servant bring me my leeches at once!

You say this in jest. But how would one actually get rid of blood if you can’t donate?

No clue. I actually can't give blood because I get too dizzy and it would not be cost effective for them to have to babysit me for 30 minutes.

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Post by CodeWriter23 »

neogodless wrote: post #9

Donate your perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to those in need! Hmm: > As to the question of what happens to recipients of this blood: “Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are ubiquitous, and no threshold has been identified that poses an increased risk to recipients of donated blood components.”

They're basically saying: "Sure, you're passing the buck, but there's no evidence that your reduction in PFAS results in an increase of PFAS to the recipient. Because we haven't looked." and then calling that "Science".
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