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Tiny gut “sponge” bacteria found to flush out toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” (www.sciencedaily.com)

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well I mean if people throw off their gut microbiome by overloading on this bacteria, it might still be harmful in that way. It does not need to be pathogenic in that sense.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Its actually hard to survive the human gut