Cleaning Cholesterol From Blood Also Lowered Forever Chemicals and Plastics, and Nobody Knows Why
Early measurements found double filtration plasmapheresis reduced PFAS by up to 25% and lowered microplastic counts in four patients, researchers said.
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Cleaning cholesterol from blood also lowered forever chemicals and plastics, and nobody knows why
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and plastic particles may not drift through the bloodstream alone. The working hypothesis is that they bind lipids and proteins, forming aggregates that persist for years. A team at Technische Universität Dresden asked whether therapeutic apheresis, an extracorporeal therapy developed to strip lipoproteins from patients with severe dyslipidemia, also removes such contaminants. In small exploratory cohorts, PFA…
Blood filtration method helps clear circulating lipids and toxic microplastics
The machine is not new. Some version of it has run in hospital treatment rooms for about four decades, drawing blood from one arm, separating out the plasma, passing it across a filter or an adsorber, and returning it to the other arm.
The apheresis department of Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital at Dresden Technical University, Germany, has been filtering the blood of patients whose cholesterol never drops, no matter how many drugs they eat. It is one of the largest centers in the world for this technique, where up to 10,000 procedures are performed annually. Blood comes out of one arm of the patient, plasma is separated and passed through a filter to remove lipids, and p…
Can Blood-Cleansing Therapy Remove 'Forever Chemicals' and Microplastics?
Therapeutic apheresis—an extracorporeal blood-cleansing procedure long used to remove harmful lipoproteins and immune factors—may also help reduce levels of persistent environmental pollutants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs), according to a preliminary study by researchers at Technische Universität Dresden published in Brain Health. The findings suggest that double filtration plasmapheresis (…
Scientists were looking to find out if a machine built to filter fat on a large scale could permanently eliminate chemicals and microplastics.
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