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Tiny gut “sponge” bacteria found to flush out toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”
(www.sciencedaily.com)
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Doesn't really seem like they'll get rid of what's already in the bloodstream and no real mention of safety yet, but it looks promising.
I wonder if there are other ways pfas might be circulated out of the bloodstream and back into the digestive system to be collected by this microfauna.
One of the ways oats and oatmeal reduce the amount of cholesterol in your body is by binding to the cholesterol in bile so it's excreted instead of being re-absorbed. So the cholesterol could already be in the bloodstream, converted into bile, then excretes with the oats once it's combined. This clearly has multiple essential organs helping the process, but still, a mechanism like this could still make a difference over time.
There's some evidence for the same mechanism of action reducing PFAS:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041008X24003879
https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01165-8
Welp, I'm having oats for breakfast tomorrow 😄
Just gotta make sure they aren’t already full of microplastics.
Even better, those studies are testing dietary fibre generally, not just oats, so anyone eating their daily fruits and vegetables is already getting that benefit.
Time to start donating blood regularly. Someone else will get plastics sure, but they'll need the blood for more pressing reasons.
The microplastics get filtered really well in donations, so you’re definitely not doing any harm!
I wish I was not a needlephobe as there is some indication it can be good for you the same way things that encourage your old cells to die (senolytics) are good.
Fasting is a good way to achieve that.
But as far as donating goes, there may be a day you might be the recipient of much needed blood donations.
Had a lady need 12 bags of blood after almost exsanguinating following a really complicated delivery (both survived). She never gave blood before due to fear of needles, but now is a regular blood donor because of the importance of it. She told me to not wait and just start giving.
I have a hard time believing she was a needlephobe and not more of a person who was not wild about needles as phobias do not disapear so easily.
Pregnancy changes people.
I 100% agree with this
That's arguable. But she did her first blood donation and it took her around 3 hours.
okay. that sounds like phobia. thats how long it took to get my meningitis shot in college. walked around the quad yelling at myself in my head.