{"id":242502,"date":"2026-08-11T01:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-common-cholesterol-treatment-may-also-remove-pfas-and-microplastics-from-blood"},"modified":"2026-08-11T01:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:04:37","slug":"a-common-cholesterol-treatment-may-also-remove-pfas-and-microplastics-from-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-common-cholesterol-treatment-may-also-remove-pfas-and-microplastics-from-blood","title":{"rendered":"A Common Cholesterol Treatment May Also Remove PFAS And Microplastics From Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-common-cholesterol-treatment-may-also-remove-pfas-and-microplastics-from-blood.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A filter used to clear excess fats from the blood of people with cardiovascular disease may also trap much smaller stowaways: some persistent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/synthetic-chemicals-aren-t-just-pushing-earth-s-boundary-they-ve-crossed-it\">synthetic chemicals<\/a> and microplastics.<\/p>\n<p>The treatment, known as therapeutic apheresis, passes a patient\u2019s blood through a machine, filters out targeted substances, and returns the blood to the body.<\/p>\n<p>It was not developed to remove environmental pollutants. It is generally used in severe cases where medication alone cannot sufficiently remove cholesterol \u2013 fat-carrying particles linked to cardiovascular disease risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A filter used to clear excess fats from the blood of people with cardiovascular disease may also trap much smaller stowaways: some persistent synthetic chemicals and microplastics. The treatment, known as therapeutic apheresis, passes a patient\u2019s blood through a machine, filters out targeted substances, and returns the blood to the body. It was not developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}