People, the only proven way to reduce the amount of micro plastics in your blood, is to donate blood. As often as possible. You can do a good thing for selfish reasons.

[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So if we want to stay healthy,we need to go back to leeches and bloodletting. I hate this timeline.

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 months ago

PFAS levels in the groundwater on Jersey have gotten so bad that they actually are recommending bloodletting there.

[–] Eagle0110@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Hey at least leeches can be pretty cool and fun pets to keep! :p

[–] ArcticDagger@feddit.dk 10 points 10 months ago

Good point

I believe the original article is open access: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr8243

In there, they show the following figure (figure 6):

Where the authors say that 12 μg/ml microplastics in the blood is representative for humans