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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/lurker_bee on 2025-06-20 05:10:26+00:00.
I’d rather take some sort of plastic magnet pill and poop out a G.I. Joe a couple days later. Rinse and repeat every 10 years.
I’d rather stop polluting everything with plastic but I guess eating it and shitting it out is a good plan B.
Tbf, even if we stopped literally right now that doesn’t address what’s already there so even best case scenario would still be a little of column a, a little of column b.
People will do EVERYTHING but dealing with the root of the problem.
Sorry, what? Even if you get rid of all plastic tomorrow and stop leaking of microplastics into every part of your life, you will still carry those particles with you. Basically forever.
So yeah, of course we need to address the root of the problem, but also we need therapies like this, cleaning out what is already in the body.
But dealing with the root of the problem doesnt magically make the problem go away. We still need to deal with all the plastic that still exists after we fix the root. We still need a way to get microplastics out of the body. This is valuable research and you are essentially virtue signalling.
I think there are a good number of people who are trying to deal with the problem, but a significant portion of the ruling class do not want to and have no plans to deal with the problem. So, dealing with the symptoms is the next best thing.
The only way we can deal with the problem is by unplugging all of these people in the ruling class and starting fresh. But that’s not something that is going to happen very easily or maybe at all sadly. Plus, we might just get a batch of fresh shitheads to rule the world.
And the side effects are?
Micro metals
Just a pink mohawk and 21% chance to turn into a somewhat humanoid pig. Nothing to worry about 'till someone named Duke doesn’t begin runnin 'round.
This is expensive and time consuming Because this is not a permanent solution (the patient will get reinundated with microplastics shortly after the procedure), they will need reapplications throughout their whole lives. Thus, this will likely only be available to the ultrarich.
The article does point out that prevention is still the best solution. But the corpos make that hard.
The article already says everything you said. It’s not a “solution” to anything. It’s a small step to show that this is even possible. Perhaps it will help some people whose condition makes them extraordinarily sensitive.
I swear people will find a way to shit on virtually anything and turn absolutely everything into class war.
How many lemmings do you know that actually read the full articles? If an article interests me enough to read it, I usually try to summarize it in the comments, and, yes, point out its flaws.
Your comment reads more like a rebuttal than a summary. If you intend to summarize the article for lazy lemmings, that’s cool, but present it as such.
Ok. Good feedback. What can I do different?
You could begin with “summary:”
There are other ways to lower the amount of plastic in you. If you donate your blood you can measurably lower your pfas levels. Really just removing blood which carries plastic through your whole body will also lower your concentration of plastics. Because plastic is in the water, make sure you drink filtered water. They do make filters that will catch micro plastics and some will advertise it. If you want to keep your levels lower avoid hydrophobic coatings that sit next to food for extended periods of time and definitely don’t heat that food next to a hydrophobic coating. Think microwaving food in a container with coatings that’ll leach into the food. So bags of popcorn should be avoided like the plague, unfortunately.
Source: Veritasium, skip to at least 50:15, but honestly I’d recommend watching the whole thing https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY.
You can also pop your popcorn in plain undyed paper bags. Toss them in oil, put em in the bag, microwave.
A while ago there was a reddit post about how you don’t need bagged popcorn to pop popcorn. You don’t even need any of them there fancy air poppers. All you need is a glass container and the popcorn itself. And it’s true!
The only part that presented any trouble was finding a safe container with a safe lid - during the process of popping, an individual kernel is super warm, so if it hits a lid that can’t tolerate that it can melt pits into the lid.
Other than that (and making sure you don’t add too much popcorn, that stuff expands like crazy), just dump the kernels into your container, cover it up (don’t forget to vent as appropriate) and then microwave as you would the bagged stuff. Add your seasonings, shake up the container, and enjoy.
There’s an even more accessible way to pop popcorn. Add oil to a pot, heat it on the stove and dump in some kernels. Optionally cover with a lid.
It’s even better because you can pop in whatever fat you want. If you toss the salt in there while popping then it’ll evenly distribute across your popcorn as well.
Or use Flavacol instead of salt if you want movie theatre popcorn.
There are other ways to lower the amount of plastic in you. If you donate your blood you can measurably lower your pfas levels. Really just removing blood which carries plastic through your whole body will also lower your concentration of plastics.
I’m pretty sure regular blood letting is actually not great for you either.
Describing donating a pint of blood every several weeks as “regular bloodletting” is really something. I mean I guess in a literal sense that is what is happening, but they literally will not take your blood if it is not safe to do so, including donating too recently.
Edit: by the way, after thinking about this for only a few moments longer, i have realized you can probably do even better just by donating plasma only, and now you are not even losing your blood cells.
I know pfas levels are immediately lower after the donation. I’m not under the impression that pfas levels stay low for very long i.e. long enough to safely donate blood again.
Plasma donations can be done more frequently, though, so that might be actually effective way to reduce contamination.
But, it’s kind of messed up that we’re donating contaminated blood and/or plasma. Is that good for the people that use our blood? Who knows!
