Plenty of good and selfless reasons to donate blood or platelets. Here is a selfish one, besides the record breaking weight loss of 1/2kg in 10mins.
facepalm reduced from the donor and increased in the receiver apparently. be nice if the article included how the donations prevented the PFAS from getting to the patient…
I doubt it gets filtered out, but it would be interesting to know for sure.
It’s a nice side effect to get rid of it as donor. If I was ever in a position to need blood then imminent survival will be priority over PFAS contamination
If I was ever in a position to need blood then imminent survival will be priority over PFAS contamination
this is a obvious take. its just an horrifyingly self centered article. ‘donate blood because it removes potentially damaging compounds from you! you’re a good person by doing so!’ its embodies so many things wrong w/ people.
the fact where the pfas go is never mentioned is either: deliberate or the people on the decision making tree for writing and publishing this article are hopelessly self centered as a group. neither is a good thing.
True, it reflects where humanity has gone. I’ve been donating for nearly 20 years now (in several countries) and sadly I mostly see older people there, some in my age braket (late 30s) and hardly ever anyone young.
To me this one is a case where the end justifies the means. If someone is motivated to donate for purely selfish reasons then that is still a win overall.
If it makes you feel better, I’m under 30, and the mod of this community because although I am no super-donor, I didn’t see one and I donate often enough I figured that on the small Fediverse I could mod until someone more qualified showed up.
Nice, thanks for setting it up. I guess it’s on us to build places like this one here where ingerested people can ask questions. I should look into organising a blood drive.
https://www.redcrossblood.org/hosting-a-blood-drive/learn-about-hosting/how-hosting-a-blood-drive-works.html can help if you are willing to work with the American Red Cross.
indeed. i also havent seen a blood drive in ages…
if your bleeding out and going into surgery the blood will help more than harm. down the road when you are all tip top you could always give blood yourself. Its a one mans trash is another mans treasure situation.
Yeah, but the receiver generally tends to have bigger problems to worry about.
Except most people don’t give blood their whole lives.
It also reduces microplastics iirc. Who knew, getting rid of contaminated stuff makes you have less contaminates in you body?
Makes total sense, good someone started.looking into it proper
There is a fair indication that old cells can be bad for you which is why some cells that encourage the self destruct mechanic get studied for aging. Donating basically kicks your body into making new blood so it likely has a good effect in that way.
Off to donate all my blood.
