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Regular whole blood donations also remove them, just slower. Fiber also removes some of them by binding bile.
by OutOfHere 1y ago
Regular whole blood donations also remove them, just slower.
Fiber also removes some of them by binding bile.
- cogman10 1y ago> Fiber also removes some of them by binding bile. I don't think this is the case, certainly not for microplastics and PFAS. I'm not sure how it'd work for heavy metals. AFAIK, fiber doesn't cross the stomach->blood barrier so it really wouldn't have the ability to bind to anything other than what's already in the digestive tract. I could see it potentially reducing the amount of plastics/metals/PFAS that end up in the blood stream but not actually reducing what's already there.
- OutOfHere 1y agoFiber doesn't need to cross the barrier. Bile does. Toxins from the body dissolve (mix) to some extent in bile, not just from the food. Fiber captures and excretes them. This is how it can lower what's already there.