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Firefighters get exposed to a lot of PFAS from the fire suppressant foam. Firefighters who donated blood regularly had lower levels of blood-PFAS than non-donors. Donating blood might be one current option to reduce your PFAS levels.
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by fujiwood@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
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dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
misterdoctor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pardon my ignorance, but if your blood has high levels of PFAS, wouldn’t you then be donating contaminated blood?
mrcleanup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes. But when you need a transfusion to live it’s still a good deal for you. Besides, you can always just donate blood later to bring your levels back down.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Maybe, I’m ignorant of the answer to that. I think they often separate blood so maybe it gets filtered.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
So what you’re saying is the cure is… Blood letting?
Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Always has been 🌍👨🚀🔫👨🚀
dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Lol. Sounds like some RFK nonsense when you put it like that.
Waterdoc@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s the foams specifically for fighting fuel fires that are made from PFAS. Unfortunately, their safety gear also is loaded with PFAS.
scytale@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Just watched this today. I want to have the PFAS blood test done but I’m also afraid of the results.
Waterdoc@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Blood serum PFAS concentrations thankfully have been decreasing over time. It’s probably not worth getting yours tested unless you had some specific exposure other than consumer goods. You should ask your doctor, if you have one.
This data is from Canada, but the results are similar for the US.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yea, this is a horror movie.
I wanna go to a different parallel universe without this shit.
redsunrise@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
the EPA announced they’re rolling back regulations on forever chemicals today. the crew behind veritasium timed the release of this video so perfectly that i can’t help but wonder if they held it in the backlog waiting for this admin’s EPA to do some dumb shit.
fujiwood@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It would make a lot of sense for them to do that. Just by the standards of their videos, you can tell there’s a lot of brilliant people working on them.