Blood Donation PFAS Debate
Discussions center on using blood or plasma donation to reduce PFAS levels in the body, including regulatory distinctions between paid plasma and unpaid blood, personal experiences, health benefits, and arguments over donating contaminated blood.
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Pedantic quibble - they haven't donated their own blood, maybe just stored.
"Donating" blood (plasma) seems like a reasonable thing to do.
Blood donation organizations hate this one trick!
Something of a minor nit, but the US does not allow blood donors to be paid, only plasma donors.
he _was_ a donor. he's not likely to be a donor in the future. so why bother?
probably talking about plasma "donations".
Due to a past (super low risk) medical condition, I cannot donate blood. There’s not really any other way to replicate this, right?
How is this different than donating plasma?
maybe people are more willing to donate blood than money
I can't donate blood, for fairly bogus reasons, this is true for a surprisingly large subset of the population