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Donating blood or plasma has evidence of reducing pfas. If I knew I had high measured levels, I'd certainly think about doing it more. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih
by mhardcastle 3y ago
Donating blood or plasma has evidence of reducing pfas. If I knew I had high measured levels, I'd certainly think about doing it more.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994130/
- haskellandchill 3y agoAre you giving someone bad blood in that case?
- npongratz 3y agoI can direct you to answers I got a couple weeks ago when I asked a similar question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261100
- bauruine 3y agoThe negative health effects of PFAS are completely irrelevant if the alternative to this "bad blood" is death.
- giantg2 3y agoGenerally agree, but that could be true of many other things like lead too. So we have to be careful not to take it to the extreme.
- mianosm 3y agoNot always, as quite often the donation is on hand, but not necessarily used. Also: better to save a life and either average down whatever PFA count they have, or bolster their blood volume so they can start producing their own lower PFA infested hemoglobin. Lesser of evils, and kind of a win win: if everyone was blood letting for the safety and humanity of others.
- jsharf 3y agoWell, assuming they likely have some PFAS already in their system, you might just be giving them blood with the same concentration of PFAS that they already have.
- mhardcastle 3y agoIf you're donating because you know your levels are elevated then I'd agree with this thought. (While also agreeing with those in the thread saying that high-PFAS donations are likely often better than no donations)