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I'd like to know the concentration needed to get clots to form.
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.
So if we want to stay healthy,we need to go back to leeches and bloodletting. I hate this timeline.
PFAS levels in the groundwater on Jersey have gotten so bad that they actually are recommending bloodletting there.
Hey at least leeches can be pretty cool and fun pets to keep! :p
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