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Even if someone else would get your PFAS its most likely they have them as well and its certainly better than dying of blood loss or not treating other serious
by s0rce 4y ago
Even if someone else would get your PFAS its most likely they have them as well and its certainly better than dying of blood loss or not treating other serious issues that rely on various blood products.
- qgin 4y agoAbsolutely, the point of a blood transfusion is that a body needs blood replenished faster than it can produce it. A blood transfusion now, PFAS or no, gives someone a chance to survive (and who knows, maybe donate blood themselves at some point)
- pessimizer 4y agoAnyway it's a problem you can fix yourself by donating more blood than you receive.
- KarlKemp 4y agoThere are diseases where you get regular transfusions. For these patients, PFAS would become a problem since they are, by definition, not subject to degradation. Unless, of course, the patients are physically losing blood. Which makes me wonder if women have a specific advantage on this matter. I do remember reading that regular blood donations show health benefits, and that women get them "for free", so to speak. This may be part of the reason.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoOur recent cavemen ancestors probably got injured and bled a bit much more often than we do. It's not hard to imagine the human body optimizing for those conditions, which would make permanently holding onto all your blood suboptimal.
- dontcare007 4y agoYes, women do have an advantage. Hemachromatosis occurs in men much more frequently. Of course, they suffer from iron deficiency much more often...