I’m removing so much plastic, this will make me healthy sips coke from bottle
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Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 year ago
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
sips coke from bottle
I prefer to snort it but you do you
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cocaine makes me feel like a new man.
The trouble is that he wants a line too!
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Could be glass bottle.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 year 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 year ago
Bad news: Todays needles are coated in PFAS to make punctions more painless.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 year 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 year ago
Unfortunately no. Afaik even regular exposition is (for now) considered relatively harmless, with medical professionals bearing the highest risk.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought the injection would be the one that is a pain in the ass 🤔
SuperIce@lemmy.world 1 year 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 year ago
I’ve never really looked into this, do you have any good sources you recommend looking at?
ronigami@lemmy.world 1 year ago
whose fucking goddamn idea was that
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Wait, would this actually work?
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yea it really does
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 year 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 year ago
Does this also mean woman after their period have less plastic?
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
how do i know how much plastic is in my blood?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year 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 year 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 year ago
so it works, because in any case there will be less than otherwise would be
vodka@feddit.org 1 year 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 year 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 year ago
Donating my microplastics to people in need.
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 1 year 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 year 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 year ago
Damn apparently giving plasma might be better according to this small study of aussie firefighters
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thats why i donate 3 times a day
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Too inefficient, I’m just going to pump it all out and start again with fresh blood.
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So you gotta do a full flush when you donate. Got it.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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 year ago
Baby steps
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Does ejaculation remove micro plastics? Asking for a friend.
rbm4444@lemmy.world 1 year 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 year ago
That’s pretty bad
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year ago
Also wouldn’t work.
Interesting that someone would downvote that.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
whatever it takes
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m doing the same, but for PFAS
Haarukkateroitin@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
So everybody wins?
scarilog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, not the person in need that’s getting transfusions of blood filled with microplastics.
L1to@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
grue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Medieval-style bloodletting…
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