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Re:Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in y... by mhardcastle on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:53PM (#36510848)
Donating blood or plasma has evidence of reducing pfas. If I knew I had high measured levels, I'd certainly think about doing it more.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994130/

Re:Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in y... by haskellandchill on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:55PM (#36510889)
Are you giving someone bad blood in that case?
Re:Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in y... by bauruine on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:04PM (#36511026)
The negative health effects of PFAS are completely irrelevant if the alternative to this "bad blood" is death.
Re:Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in y... by giantg2 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:42PM (#36511576)
Generally agree, but that could be true of many other things like lead too. So we have to be careful not to take it to the extreme.
Re:Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in y... by npongratz on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:01PM (#36510988)
I can direct you to answers I got a couple weeks ago when I asked a similar question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261100
Re:Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in y... by jsharf on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:04PM (#36511827)
Well, assuming they likely have some PFAS already in their system, you might just be giving them blood with the same concentration of PFAS that they already have.
Re:Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in y... by mianosm on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:07PM (#36511870)
Not always, as quite often the donation is on hand, but not necessarily used.

Also: better to save a life and either average down whatever PFA count they have, or bolster their blood volume so they can start producing their own lower PFA infested hemoglobin.

Lesser of evils, and kind of a win win: if everyone was blood letting for the safety and humanity of others.

Re:Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in y... by mhardcastle on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:40PM (#36512288)
If you're donating because you know your levels are elevated then I'd agree with this thought.

(While also agreeing with those in the thread saying that high-PFAS donations are likely often better than no donations)