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Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

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Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

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post #48

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Does the recipient get the forever chemicals or is there filtration processing that removes them?

The recipient will get the forever chemicals, but they survive due to the blood transfer, so in a few weeks they can donate and get rid of the chemicals.

Hot potato! Right? (I remember that game.)

Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

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post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the recipient get the forever chemicals or is there filtration processing that removes them?

The recipient will get the forever chemicals, but they survive due to the blood transfer, so in a few weeks they can donate and get rid of the chemicals.

if they're getting blood chances are they're already down a few pints, which meant the forever chems in that older blood are gone

new blood replaces them so they're back to where they started, but you're down a bunch

Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

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post #65
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There's this theory that you can dilute the chemicals by doing frequent blood donations.

Can't I just bleed out into the ground occasionally as well?

why just the ground? bring back ritual bloodletting

Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

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post #65
post #7

There's this theory that you can dilute the chemicals by doing frequent blood donations.

Can't I just bleed out into the ground occasionally as well?

Right after this break, we'll find out: Is hemorrhaging in public a crime?

Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

#77

I assume a lot of people 50+ were exposed to a lot more lead and cigarette smoke than younger people.

Yes, for those under 30 you have no idea how normalized smoking was right thru the 90s. Restaurants reeked of it, bars more so. A ridiculous percent of men smoked. I have memories of being quite young sitting in a relatives lap at a baseball game while they smoked. Or my coach in little league smoking a pipe in the dugout filled with 11 year olds.

Never mind the automobile smoke. (Thankfully we dropped leaded gasoline but) have you ever found yourself following a vintage 1970's-era muscle car or similar down the road today?

Wow, that non-catalytically-converted smoke brings back the memories…

Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

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post #18

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The part you are leaving out is that illegals (now in the millions), living in the US are almost never vaccinated for measles.

Can you cite some sources? Because most countries have a functioning vaccination program, in part thanks to now-cancelled USAID funding. But vaccination rates have been dropping, just like in the US. https://www.unicef.org/lac/en/press-releases/latin-america-a... Your comment reads like anti-immigrant propaganda. If USAID were to be restored, the US could use its vast wealth to improve global health. But the current…

And it was the GOP senate that rubber stamped RFK, with only McConnell holding out because he had polio as a child before the vaccine was created.

Yesterday Trump's pick for Surgeon General was before the senate. She doesn't have a medical degree and dodged questions about vaccines.

But I have full confidence even Mitch is onboard with the stupid this time.

Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, for those under 30 you have no idea how normalized smoking was right thru the 90s. Restaurants reeked of it, bars more so. A ridiculous percent of men smoked. I have memories of being quite young sitting in a relatives lap at a baseball game while they smoked. Or my coach in little league smoking a pipe in the dugout filled with 11 year olds.

I was explaining this to my elementary school aged kids just a few days ago. We were eating in a restaurant and I told them that when I was their age most restaurants had a smoking and non-smoking section. Of course the smoke did not respect the invisible barrier. The idea that people could just smoke indoors and it was normal really blew their minds.

"…had a smoking and non-smoking section"

You're younger than me if you don't remember before there was even that distinction.

Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

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post #11
post #7

There's this theory that you can dilute the chemicals by doing frequent blood donations.

Is the leech back?

People mocked the leechers, they called them mad. And now look who’s crawling back. It turns out leeches really do cure diseases.
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