Two common $1.50 medications eliminate cancer-causing 'forever chemicals' from the body

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Two common $1.50 medications eliminate cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’ from the body

In a small study, scientists in Sweden tracked 10 adults with unusually high levels of Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their blood after exposure to contaminated municipal water.
For one week, the patients were prescribed a drug used to lower cholesterol: cholestyramine, sold under the brand name Questran. Then, for 12 weeks, they were prescribed another cholesterol medication: colesevelam, sold as Welchol.
Overall, PFAS levels in feces were 23-fold higher after the cholestyramine week compared to the no medication week, suggesting the drug removed, or ‘flushed’, PFAS out of the body.
During the 12 weeks on colesevelam, blood tests showed PFAS levels fell by up to 38 percent, compared with just two percent during a 12-week period with no medication.
The researchers emphasized that the study was small, and would need to be repeated in a much larger population to confirm the results. They also said it was observational, and could not prove whether the drugs or another factor had the effect.

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See also: Can fiber remove PFAS?

In this study, it was found that 12 weeks of cholestyramine reduced serum levels of PFAS by 60%, with smaller reductions for related but less negatively charged forever chemicals. This is a huge result! First of all, 60% is a big number. Second of all, these are serum levels. This means that a fiber which acts only in the gut can pull PFAS out of the blood, likely via enterohepatic circulation. This is exactly the result I was hoping to get with NeutraOat.

Citing: Substantial decrease of PFAS with anion exchange resin treatment - A clinical cross-over trial 2024

@AlexKChen you might be interested.

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Did it here already, though you probably did it a little better:

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Is it? Do we have any idea about the LD 50 of pfas? Is having 40% around ok? Could it be similar to decreasing smoking by 60% but still smoking half a pack a day?

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Fewer PFAS and fewer smokes a day are always a benefit.

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Bryan Johnson showed some huge reductions in toxins after sauna (which I believe some are forever chemicals). Go to 11:45 in the video

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If one were to eliminate intake of PFAS and continued on with something that reduces serum levels by 60% in 12 weeks, and if that rate were to continue, one could have near total elimination in 60 weeks.

If intake of PFAS could not be completely eliminated this could still provide significant PFAS reduction on an ongoing basis.

One could ask Perplexity the same question but with continued intake of PFAS at different levels

if a 12 week course of a drug reduced the toxin by.pdf (296.3 KB)