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It is crazy that it has become this much of a problem and it feels like it is on almost no one's radar. Is this even reversible at this point? I assume not, but that it can definitely get worse.
Good news, it is! Unlike other bad stuff like heavy metals, microplastics and PFAS are naturally eliminated from the body, just very slowly. Procedures like dialysis, or even just giving blood, can remove them more quickly.
No, it's true that you will excrete microplastics even if you're replacing them with fresh ones. If you want your total bodily microplastics level to go down, you will have to reduce your intake.
Simple microplastic composition loss.
Plastic in has to be less than plastic out.
When you are happy with your microplastic composition, try and find microplastics you enjoy and can consume in moderation to help maintain your microplastic composition
So giving blood doesn't really remove the micro plastics so much as transfer them to someone else who is in rven worse shape than you are
Yeah but them needing blood is a bigger problem than having microplastics.
Also if it's replacing blood lost, then they'll probably break even on microplastics content.
do you have any references to this and their methodology?
For which part? I can link some studies, but you'd probably be more satisfied with the results you get by searching on your own.
mainly curious about the dialysis. i feel the passive elimination would vary based on demographic, intake, diet etc. i guess you would just need something semipermeable that traps the plastics. trapping plastic with plastic
Well now I can't find whatever I was looking at that said it was effective. But I did find this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666821123000868
Obviously, hydrogen peroxide would not be a good idea in hemodialysis, but some of the other reactants might be useful.
Since microplastics are a bit larger than blood cells (plastics 10-50um vs white blood cells 12-15 and red 7.5-8.7um) theoretically they could be filtered by a 15um water filter to get most of them.
Unless we can somehow develop microbes or bacteria that can safely consume and remove these plastics within our bodies, this is forever