[superkuh]

>PFOS—perfluorooctanesulfonic acid—is referred to as a forever chemical, because it accumulates in soil, rivers, and drinking water and is almost impossible to get rid of. She had about 300 micrograms of it per liter in her blood, more than 60 times the level recommended as safe today by the European Union.

Almost impossible, but not impossible. It has been found that giving blood (and then throwing that blood away) significant reduces PFOS levels. Not that I'm defending 3M or any of this. My favorite rivers where I fish turned out to be full of PFOS due to a leaking 3M waste dump and this was only announced in 2021. So I spent some time looking for solutions.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

https://www.aabb.org/news-resources/news/article/2022/04/26/...

[Cerium]

I read this to mean "almost impossible to get rid of out of soil, rivers, and drinking water". Which to my understanding is true.

[DoingIsLearning]

where did you find information on affected rivers?

[superkuh]

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/pfos-impairments

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/11/08/minn-lakes-with-for...

[RobertRoberts]

Are you recommending bloodletting as a cure for some of the nastiest pollution ever created by humans?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting

[collegeburner]

Just because it doesn't cure everything doesn't make it useless, bodybuilders do it as well to control blood pressure. Kinda like how those bubonic plague masks don't make covid masks useless.

[RobertRoberts]

Are you saying because bodybuilder use bloodletting that it's a good solution to blood pressure issues?

[arcticbull]

Just wait until you see how maggots are used in modern medicine. [1] Not all old ideas are bad.

[1] https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/medical-maggots/

[RobertRoberts]

An old saying is an "ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

When the cure prevents any analysis of applying prevention (even discussing it) then the cure is part of the problem.

[arcticbull]

In what way does either of these cures prevent any analysis?

[collegeburner]

I'm saying exactly what I said. In some cases, where a person has high blood cells, it might be a good option. Talk to your doctor first or whatever.

[kube-system]

Bloodletting as a psuedoscience is bad. Therapeutic phlebotomy is a modern medical procedure.

[tru3_power]

Agreed. My doctor actually had me do this last year due to high ferritin/iron levels. I did a double red blood cell procedure and the fatigue issues I had went away.

[WrtCdEvrydy]

To be honest, I've been given similar advice for high levels of iron once from a doctor. Let go of a few gallons over a year and my iron has never been that high before.

[Beltiras]

I think it spoke to the desperation of the situation, not that it was a solution worthy of being called "a cure".

[fmajid]

It's either that or pumping for breast milk. Since we have no idea what gender "superkuh" is, the latter may not be an option, despite their username...

[colechristensen]

Yes, I would recommend bloodletting.

There are a collection of things which are difficult for your body to eliminate, regularly extracting blood is a mechanism for getting rid of some of them.