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[–] 126 points 1 year ago

Medieval-style bloodletting...

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  • [–] 94 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I’m removing so much plastic, this will make me healthy sips coke from bottle

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    sips coke from bottle

    I prefer to snort it but you do you

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Cocaine turns me into a new man.

    The trouble is that he wants a line too!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There was an article posted recently about those having a surprising amount of microplastics in them as well. It turns out the production line machinery scratches the bottle cap and microscopic fragments make their way into the drink.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Wait, would this actually work?

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    Yea it really does. It's the only way we know to get rid of plastic in blood

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Some recent study also found that mucilaginous fiber binds with PFAS the same way that it binds with cholesterol to keep the body from absorbing it. PFAS already in your system is believed to be reintroduced to your digestive system through bile excretion, some binds with the fiber and leaves your system, the rest is absorbed.

    If you don’t eat a lot of food with mucilage, the main ingredient in Metamucil has mucilaginous fiber, as the name suggests.

    The study author in the interview I read emphasized it wasn’t like β€˜take fiber for a few months and PFAS is all gone,’ she and her husband just incorporated a mucilage supplement into their diets because of how prevalent it is in the environment.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Got link any chance? Would help me in telling my friends and loved ones to take poop pills with me because of the plastic in bodies (I’ll take my poop polls with or without a link just because I like the cut of your jib)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Does this also mean woman after their period have less plastic?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes. Also during pregnancy. A lot of it is diverted to the fetus

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    how do i know how much plastic is in my blood?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Well supposedly there's enough in the tissue in your brain to make a credit card or a plastic disposable spoon depending on what article you read

    If you want an actual answer, there is blood work you can have done to determine that. Veritasium did a video on it recently

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Only if your exposure in the future is less than in the past. Otherwise it will just go back up again. And considering plastic use is going up, you would have to use air filters and avoid micro plastics as much as possible.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    .A friend used to donate blood when he had sex with a random girl, he said that if he contracted HIV, they would contact him.

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    Also wouldn't work.

    Interesting that someone would downvote that.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)
    [–] 24 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    If human blood has plastics at a rate of ~ 1.6 Β΅g/mL and a typical volume of blood donated during a whole blood donation is approximately 470-500 mL you're looking at a reduction in plastics of a cool .0005 grams per donation. That's 1/40th of a grain of rice!

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Don't think of it like that, think of it as 10% of your total blood plastic!

    I wonder if doing plasma instead of whole blood is better or worse. Does microplastic stay behind or go back in?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Damn apparently giving plasma might be better according to this small study of aussie firefighters

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ooh maybe I should donate again. Get some extra cash, get rid of micro plastics. Win win win.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Thats why i donate 3 times a day

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Too inefficient, I'm just going to pump it all out and start again with fresh blood.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The trick is to find a blood boy like Peter Thiel

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why would I want Peter Thiel as my blood boy?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, not the person in need that's getting transfusions of blood filled with microplastics.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    whatever it takes to get you to donate

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  • I'm doing the same, but for PFAS

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Lucky bastard. I'm not only unable to donate, but I have to get blood derivatives injected. I'm Plastic Person, be sad for me.

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