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I want them to 3D print a neat little Star Wars starship miniature out of mine. Something obscure like a Kimogila.
This is a post about college loans lmao
Cool, I want a racecar
Unfortunately, the machine only gives you the reverse of what you type into it.
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Couldn't they do some dialysis type thing with our blood somehow? Idk shit about science lol
Yes, in theory. It's extremely dangerous and absurdly expensive. It also would only address the microplastics currently in the bloodstream - the ones already embedded into organ tissues wouldn't be reliably filtered out this way.
When it comes to PFAS contamination, people have been having decent results by simply donating blood often. Getting it out of the system via blood does help to reduce overall levels in your body.
I love how we've come back around to bloodletting
Donating plasma works even better. They extract a larger volume of fluids per session, twice a week instead of once every 8 weeks.
Don't worry about the recipient: If you are donating plasma regularly, your PFAS levels will be well below average.
Huh, I thought that they only filtered your blood when donating plasma, hence the PFAS could simply be returned to you. But I have to admit that I'm far from an expert on this matter.
Either way, we kinda have returned to bloodletting being a reasonable medical approach.
They centrifuge your blood and return the RBCs, but the PFAS hangs out in the plasma. Mostly. If there was much in the red blood cells, the liver would be removing it and you'd be pooping it out.
A woman having a child is the biggest reduction. Make of that what you will. I sure hope the placenta, and not the baby, is getting the remainder. But I am guessing both.
Wait, you can donate plasma two times in one week where you are? That feels kinda insane.
In Australia it's 12 weeks for whole blood and 2 weeks for plasma. Or 4 weeks for switching from whole blood to plasma.
Yep! US allows plasma donation up to two times per week, with at least 48 hours between donations.
Can't donate plasma or blood for 8 weeks after donating whole blood, or 16 weeks after donating packed RBCs.
Packed RBCs are basically the reverse of plasma donation. Instead of returning the RBCs and keeping the plasma, they take two units of RBCs and return the plasma.
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It's called "plasmapheresis", and they'll pay you $40 twice a week to sit in a chair for an hour while they do it.
They're so nice to do this out of the goodness of their hearts for any random person that asks for the procedure, at a financial loss, with no ulterior motive whatsoever.
I mean, if you really want to, you can go to the hospital and pay them to provide the exact same treatment.
Well, that's great. Can't wait to have a kids toy in my brain.
Extreme heat can destroy plastics, if I were to say self immolate would that be enough to remove the imbedded plastics?
Yes, but then you'd open a new hole in the ozone layer.
yes but immolation of thy self could be a hoot
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Unfortunately, it doesn't stay in the blood. Sometimes it wedges in nooks and crannies, where I accumulates and doesn't leave until a tumor pushes it out.
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From what I've read yes.
Which is why all this years I had kidney failure I had spent going plastic free as possible, since I had a probably decent plastic free blood. Can't build up much if it gets filtered 3x a week.
The needles a gigantic btw.
You can download a car... but are you allowed to "steal" (get for free) the filament???