Okay, Chelsea, this isn't an article per se. It's a... I actually posted this on the subreddit.
Okay, I'm intrigued.
And it has something to do with a topic that we've been kind of covering. And
it's kind of mundane good news, plus a push to do better in life.
What is it? Like a PDF?
No, it's a scientific paper.
Okay.
And we're just going to be reading the abstract from it. This was published April 8th, 2022.
And it is titled Effect of Plasma and Blood Donations on Level of Per Fluorolalcal and
Polyfluorolalcal Substances in Firefighters in Australia, a randomized clinical trial.
And I'm just going to shorten it to PFOS for that entire thing because I hate saying it.
So the question that they're asking in this paper is, can levels of PFOS in the blood be
reduced by blood or plasma donations? Findings. In this randomized clinical trial of 285 firefighters,
both blood and plasma donations resulted in significantly lower PFOS levels than observation alone.
Does it mean than observation alone? Like just looking at someone and making the PFOS drop in
their blood? Yeah, I think they just mean like we're just observing you, whereas these other
ones, they told them to go donate blood. Oh, so it dropped from them taking blood out?
Yeah, from them donating blood or plasma. Plasma donation was the most effective intervention,
reducing mean serum per fluoro-octane sulfonate levels by 2.9 nanograms per milliliter compared
with 1.1 nanograms per milliliter reduction with blood donations. A significant difference,
similar changes were seen with other PFOSs. So I'm going to go a bit more into detail with it,
but that's got to be if you don't donate blood or plasma. Well, that's a reason for sure. It
takes plastic out of you, which is there's so much of it going in. You just if you can find a way to
get it to go out, that's great. They just love plastic so much in the 60s. They're like, it's
got to be in everything, even us. We want to be like 70% plastic. Yeah, you say that, but it's
like every year we produce more and more plastic to the point like 80% of all plastic ever created
was in the last 10 years. That's the episode we had. They started the movement to like love plastic.
Yeah. Now we're like, oh yeah, now we love plastic so much, we have to do plastic as much as we can.
Like this cucumber needs to be wrapped in plastic and then we need to plastic wrap them all together.
Just lay a cucumber down. It's not natural. No, the number likes to be fully engulfed in one layer
of plastic, separating it from its other friends, then being held together with it. Yes. Yeah. It
can't touch skin to skin. They must touch plastic to plastic. And I would never buy a plain cucumber,
not wrapped in three layers of plastic. What's it doing there? There's the other kind of cucumbers
you can get at the store and they look completely different, but they don't come wrapped in plastic.
So yeah, that's a good point. They are different cucumbers. I mean, they look different because
they're not wrapped in plastic. Maybe that's it. Maybe those ones actually are 60% plastic and
actually occur that way. Yeah. Don't even recognize them as a cucumber. What do you mean?
It looks like a cucumber. Is it a zucchini? So I am going to say a bit more about this paper.
So this was a 52 week open label randomized clinical trial enrolled participants from
May 23rd to August 23rd, 2019. Participants were 285 fire rescue Victoria staff or contractors
with serum levels of PFOS of five nanograms per milliliter or more who were eligible to donate
blood had not donated blood in the last three months prior to randomization and were able to
provide written informed consent. Analysis was performed on an intention to treat basis from
May to July, 2021. And the firefighters with baseline of PFOS levels of five nanograms of
milliliter or more were randomly assigned to donate plasma every six weeks for 12 months and
donate blood every 12 weeks for 12 months or be observed only. Primary endpoint were changes.
Results total of 285 firefighters average age was 53 were enrolled 95 were randomly assigned to
donate plasma 95 were randomly assigned donate blood 95 were randomly assigned to be observed.
The mean level of PFOS at 12 months was significantly reduced by plasma donations and blood donations
but was unchanged in the observation group. The mean level of some other acronym I've never seen
before. It's like PFOS but like the script got messed up it's PF at HXS was significantly reduced
in the plasma donations but no significant change was observed in the blood donation or
observation groups. Analysis between groups indicated plasma donation had a larger treatment
effect than blood donation but both were significantly more efficacious than observation and reducing
PFOS levels. And the conclusion plasma blood donations caused greater reduction in serum
PFOS levels than observation alone over a 12 month period. It's interesting that plasma donations do
more but it makes sense because when you donate plasma they take a lot more blood out of you but
they put it back in filtered. Oh I was just gonna ask with risk of sounding stupid because I've
never done it. Is it because your body like generates more new blood or plasma or it's because
they filter it and put it back in filtered. It's because they filter at least that's my guess.
I donate plasma on a bi-weekly basis so I'm getting this here apparently. I would they filter it though.
Well they filter it just because they want to make sure that the good stuff's going in because
they want the good stuff. Oh okay. And I think they just also don't want the gunky stuff getting like jamming
up the machine. Basically they take all the blood out they centrifuge it spin it really fast and take
the plasma out and put everything else back. Yeah okay. I thought it was just like a kindness that
they're doing like let me just filter that for you. You know what it's one of those added perks
that they should actually advertise but they don't. We'll filter your blood before you put it back in.
I didn't know that. Yes my blood filtering guy charges 20 bucks every other week. Yeah I mean
it's expensive it's 20 bucks that's a steal. Yeah you should actually see my old blood filtering
guy he's pretty good. Yeah I should. I also I really like that one of our answers to this high
technology issue that we have is bloodletting basically which is something that we use to treat
everything in the medieval times. Yeah I mean there's a reason we tried it. Yeah maybe. Probably.
Yeah it cures the humors. I gotta go donate plasma. What's plasma like that ectoplasm that
they have coming out of their noses at seances? No it's our life force. It's like a yellow part
of your blood. It kind of looks like a beer and or pee at the end of the day but yeah it's all just
like the liquidy part of blood. Really? Not the hemoglobin. And the hemoglobin are red? Yes.
Yes. But yeah there's some knowledge if you've learned anything please go donate blood if you
do tell them I sent you and that they should pay us. Same with his bloodletting guy. Yeah also
that guy my blood filter guy let him know I sent you too. He doesn't give kickbacks though.
Anyhow you got 48 hours to do this. Okay bye. Bye. Bye Bernie.