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Would be nice if annual physicals can include a blood analysis of exposure to these man made chemicals. So far, the list I have in mind is: - PFAS/PFOA/C8 (“fo

• AstralStorm 3y ago
  The tests are a bit involved and manual for specificity. E.g. yhe standard product scan for PFxx/C8 just checks for organic fluorine compounds which so happens are a constituent of bones. So you need specific tests for each PFxx compound like LC/MS. The brominated compounds are a bit easier to detect as bromine is rare and rather bad in general. However again non-specific, and these have shorter lifetime in blood, so unless you're exposed to huge amounts all the time, it will be hard to catch without LC/MS again. Microplastics are probably funny,.since they require chonky blood sample and repeated fractionation in a centrifuge at the moment. Cheap, but labor intensive at the moment. However automatable.
  • xyst 3y ago
    So any lab (ie, hospital) can run these tests? So a physician can literally ask for anything under the sun, and there really is no technical reason why they cannot. It might take longer to get the results for more exotic tests (ie, pfas blood serum levels), but for the most part all labs have the equipment to isolate whatever component may be in your blood (foreign or “native”/natural)