Comment on Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice

slampisko@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, because you eat and drink more microplastics to replenish yourself.

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  • BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Donate 100% of blood, then fast. You’ll be microplastic free for the rest of your life!

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Live a little will ya.

      Keep your blood, eat plastics raw, turn yourself into a 3D printer.

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      • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m already a 3D printer. I’m not very accurate, and my extrusion width is limited, but my flow rate is pretty good.

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    • sjmarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Step 2 is optional

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Donation won’t eliminate microplastics, but it will probably reduce their levels. (It has been shown to reduce levels of other harmful substances.)

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  • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually, it does reduce levels of PFAS.

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• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was thinking that a kidney dialysis machine might be able to filter out that stuff from your blood. I think the way those work is your blood goes out a tube into the machine and it filters it before sending it back to you. So you’d need filters in there that are fine enough to catch the microplastics.

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  • Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think any filtering happens in dialysis, unwanted stuff just diffuses to another solution

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Correct. If there are actually micro plastics in your blood, the plastic is likely relatively small compared to a blood cell. Otherwise we would be witnessing a lot more issues with stroke/heart attacks. Any kind of filter small enough to filter out something that small would also filter out blood cells.

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• scoobford@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably not. Unless they build up in the body somewhere, the amount of microplastics in your blood is determined by how many you consume via inhaled dust, food, and drink compared with how many you flush put via urine and/or fecal material.

  If they do build up in the body somewhere, it probably isn’t the blood, because blood is already filtered regularly.

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• Noedel@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve read that’s true for PFAS… It depends on where the microplastics are stored by your body

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