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Re:Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in... by tantalor on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:34PM (#31126070)
No, the phrase "there's no evidence" implies an attempt to find out that resulted in no support for the notion.
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Re:Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in... by thewakalix on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:44PM (#31126230)
There are two kinds of “no evidence”!

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/doctor-there-ar.html

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Re:Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in... by CodeWriter23 on Friday April 22, 2022 @04:12PM (#31127430)
If that were the case, they surely would have cited the studies.

But let do some simple math. Let's say I (and a dozen other donors) have 10ng/mL of PFAS in my system and a recipient has 5ng/mL. Assuming 20 pints of blood in a human for the rest of this word problem. Recipient requires a transfusion of 10 pints which happen to be sourced by those 12 donors, What is their PFAS load after the transfusion?

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