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Tiny gut “sponge” bacteria found to flush out toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”
(www.sciencedaily.com)
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I know it's a joke, but that's almost certainly not going to be the case. Pathogenic bacteria have fundamentally different metabolism and genes.
What is more likely is either: ecological imbalance or the bacteria only metabolises the harmful chemicals under extreme deprivation of other carbon sources, which is never realistic, so they never do
Well I mean if people throw off their gut microbiome by overloading on this bacteria, it might still be harmful in that way. It does not need to be pathogenic in that sense.
Its actually hard to survive the human gut