I’m removing so much plastic, this will make me healthy sips coke from bottle
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ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 month ago
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
sips coke from bottle
I prefer to snort it but you do you
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cocaine makes me feel like a new man.
The trouble is that he wants a line too!
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Could be glass bottle.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 1 month ago
Bad news: Todays needles are coated in PFAS to make punctions more painless.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
As someone who takes a weekly shot, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME 😭
Uuugh I don’t want to switch to daily gel or patches, it’s such a pain in the ass.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 1 month ago
Unfortunately no. Afaik even regular exposition is (for now) considered relatively harmless, with medical professionals bearing the highest risk.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought the injection would be the one that is a pain in the ass 🤔
SuperIce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s kinda misleading though. Large molecule PFAS are harmless to us (Teflon for example). It’s the small molecule PFAS are dangerous and those aren’t really used for any kind of non-stick surfaces.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve never really looked into this, do you have any good sources you recommend looking at?
ronigami@lemmy.world 1 month ago
whose fucking goddamn idea was that
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Wait, would this actually work?
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yea it really does
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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 ‘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.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Does this also mean woman after their period have less plastic?
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
how do i know how much plastic is in my blood?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
Keeping in mind that you’re getting rid of the plastic in your blood by getting rid of her blood
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
so it works, because in any case there will be less than otherwise would be
vodka@feddit.org 1 month ago
I does! It also reduced heavy metal levels.
Thankfully the bad type that shouldn’t be your blood, and not the cool type that should be playing on your speakers.
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Technically, sure, it would reduce the microplastics in your body, but they’re everywhere in your body, so it wouldn’t be by a significant amount.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Donating my microplastics to people in need.
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
If human blood has plastics at a rate of ~ 1.6 µg/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!
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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?
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Damn apparently giving plasma might be better according to this small study of aussie firefighters
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thats why i donate 3 times a day
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Too inefficient, I’m just going to pump it all out and start again with fresh blood.
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So you gotta do a full flush when you donate. Got it.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
why would you use absolute values for something measured in such small quantities? show us the percentage that comes out. or the fraction of the grain of rice associated with kidney / liver damage
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Baby steps
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 month ago
Does ejaculation remove micro plastics? Asking for a friend.
rbm4444@lemmy.world 1 month ago
.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.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s pretty bad
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
Also wouldn’t work.
Interesting that someone would downvote that.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
whatever it takes
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m doing the same, but for PFAS
Haarukkateroitin@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
So everybody wins?
scarilog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, not the person in need that’s getting transfusions of blood filled with microplastics.
L1to@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean the person that is taking in the blood has already lost blood and the plastic within as a prerequisite. So, at the end, they should stay within the same amount of blood plastic as before.
SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What about those who sell their seeds regularly?
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Medieval-style bloodletting…
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