AlexR
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Phlebotomy Treatment for Elimination of Perfluoroalkyl Acids in a Highly Exposed Family: A Retrospective Case-Series
Background Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are a family of commonly used synthetic chemicals that have become widespread environmental contaminants. In human serum, perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), perflurooctane sulfonate (PFOS), and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) are most frequently detected, in...
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"Forever Chemicals" can be detoxed through phlebotomy. A lot of these chemicals are highly toxic and linger "forever" in your bloodstream as they have half-lives of half a decade or more and are said to take two decades to clear from your body. During those two decades, they can have deleterious effects and are implicated in a wide range of diseases most notably reduced metabolic rate and increased weight gain. From the study, it is shown that phlebotomy accelerates the elimination of these harmful compounds by 2-4 times. This might be another reason for the positive effects people have had from blood donation. The only other substance I could find to detox these compounds is cholestyramine, but it is a prescription drug and doesn't have an effect on every type of these compounds like blood donation should have.There were clear declines in PFAA levels in the family members over the ∼4 years of treatment with intermittent phlebotomy (Table 3). By the end of testing in the fall of 2013, average PFHxS had declined from 125 ng/mL to 23.3 ng/mL, average PFOS from 43.4 ng/mL to 6.7 ng/mL, and average PFOA from 5.7 ng/mL to 1.4 ng/ml.