Read the full article by Eric Ralls (Earth.com)
“The machine is not new. For decades it has drawn blood from one arm, stripped the cholesterol out, and sent it back. What is new is what else came out: forever chemicals in the blood.
Nearly everyone alive carries forever chemicals. Until now, nobody had a practical way to take them back out of a living person.
A team at the world’s largest apheresis center says its filters did exactly that. The finding is small and early, and the authors are the first to say so.
PFAS and plastics travel on fats
More than 4,700 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, are in use or loose in the environment. Biomonitoring finds them in the blood of more than 99% of Americans.”…