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Gut microbes may flush ‘forever chemicals’ from the body

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Aug 12, 2025 7:25 pm

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Expelling toxic “forever chemicals” from the body may take guts — or at least, their microbes.

Some microbes found in the human gut can absorb some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, researchers report July 1 in Nature Microbiology. Mice harboring those bacteria in their guts excreted PFAS in their feces, suggesting microbes are intestinal allies that flush forever chemicals from the body.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gut-microbes-flush-pfas-from-body

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