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Tiny gut “sponge” bacteria found to flush out toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”
(www.sciencedaily.com)
I'll take the whole case.
Imagine talking about a bacteria that could save lives and never naming it! For those who want to know, it's in the nature article: E.coli and pseudomonas are the ones cited in the source document, widely spread bacteria already in your gut. Sooooo...
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.
Time to start donating blood regularly. Someone else will get plastics sure, but they'll need the blood for more pressing reasons.
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.
Awesome, nature finds a way. Wonder how common this removal is with other things, also, engineering one for nanoplastic removal would be a huge win!
There has been found a fungus that evolved to consume microplastics already! https://lamycosphere.com/en-int/blogs/the-futur-is-fungi/plastikfressende-pilze-sind-eine-naturliche-losung-fur-die-umweltverschmutzungskrise?srsltid=AfmBOopXsq1C4V3QswKk2bVz1-Y9NNbbDa5VhLclmQyVl-LkNqrijkvl
And a black one that consumes radiation! They’re working on a way to use that as a self healing radiation shielding in space! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
As long as it doesn't hurt the PFAS industry profit margins.
/s
The fact that this /s was even slightly needed :(
It will quadruple revenue - deregulation and PFAS for everyone!
Hope you can afford regular sponge bacteria cleansing baths, or you get them super-cancers real quick.
It's the way the world was meant to be monetised!
I hate that we're living in the stellaris timeline
It would suck to live in any of the empires I've created.
I'm waiting for people to start using leeches again to treat pfas in the blood.
Regular plasma donation is the most effective treatment. Blood donation works, too, but you can only donate blood every two months, versus plasma donations up to twice a week.
Isn't that just passing the PFAS on to whoever ends up getting injected with your donation?
Yeah, better to just do old fashioned bloodletting.
That's actually a valid treatment! Although really they'd probably just take a pint here and there. When you do, the body produces new, pure blood.
The pefapocalyps is coming. Why does fluor have to be such a clingy sensitive bitch clinging to cheats-with-anyone carbon? Now carbon is in a toxic relationship :(
Everything lasts forever until it doesn't.
So you poop them out into the water and perpetuate the cycle
You shouldn't drink poop water my friend
All water is poop water
Good enough for astronauts, good enough for , lol_idk
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