Your brain on microplastics?

[amassi]

A few facts for some of you worried about plastic use and carbon footprints.

Kill/cripple the humans to save the environment. Sound logic


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[OKHunter84]

Kill/cripple the humans to save the environment. Sound logic


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I think you're being a little dramatic

 

[SWOHTR]

Just my opinion based on my thoughts and it's worth exactly what you paid for it (nothing): I think we're going to find that plastics are the common link to cancer that we've been searching for. Kind of like how we eventually figured out lead piping wasn't great for our health.

 

[rclouse79]

We are swimming in a toxic soup that will only get worse.

 

[Hnthrdr]

A few facts for some of you worried about plastic use and carbon footprints.

Not super duper concerned about it, hell if they could use beetle kill to make cartons I have about 300 million trees in Co they can come collect haha

 

[OKHunter84]

Not super duper concerned about it, hell if they could use beetle kill to make cartons I have about 300 million trees in Co they can come collect haha

I'm not really either. I just work there. I worked in oil and gas for 18 years before I went to manufacturing. I could see fallacies in some of the processes in producing and completing wells and I'm sure there are some in bottling with plastics. I'm an engineer so I'm a fan of having as much data and facts to make an informed decision, just sharing what I have.

 

[Hnthrdr]

I'm not really either. I just work there. I worked in oil and gas for 18 years before I went to manufacturing. I could see fallacies in some of the processes in producing and completing wells and I'm sure there are some in bottling with plastics. I'm an engineer so I'm a fan of having as much data and facts to make an informed decision, just sharing what I have.

Good point. And not that we have to make cartons for the world, but who knows maybe we could revive a dying logging industry in the west and manage our forest so they don’t turn into mega fire every time they burn. It’s all a balancing act. Also I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some plastic coating on cartons which doesn’t really help us.

 

[ChrisA]

Lets see here man, 3 lb average human brain x 0.5% microplastics x 16 oz/lb= nearly a quarter ounce of microplastics...whoa dude; that's heavy, real heavy.

Pass the fluoride

 

[squid-freshprints]

Read some articles today about this study (admittedly not peer reviewed yet), saying that the average American brain in their study was 0.5% microplastics. I’m not aware of any particular study definitively linking microplastics to health conditions in humans, but that can’t be good.

I haven’t thrown away my Nalgene or camelback but I’m avoiding disposable bottles. Kind of ironic for my hippy dippy granola-lite friends that won’t touch tap water because of the “toxins” but slurp down polymer soup bottled by your choice of multinational corporation. (Also, water safety standards for bottled water are lower than tap water.)

Ive been eating picromlastics all my life and i turnes out fine!

 

[william schmaltz]

This recent Huberman episode is very well done and also terrifying.

 

[william schmaltz]

In response to PFAS, testing is showing that most bottled water contains at least some PFAS as well as a good potion of municipal drinking water (likely the source for bottled water). It’s hard to tell if levels are “safe” as the MCLs and RSLs for some chains for certain media are now below the current laboratory method’s limits of detection. As we learn more, it’s likely we get to the point where the data shows there is no safe ingestion level for PFAS. I use that data accordingly when deciding to consume products that may contain PFAS. Not worth the risk - especially for my children.

 

[IdahoElk]

The benefits of flouride for children far outweigh any risk to a few points of IQ......of course in the proper %. Would you rather have a handful of kids with a few points lower IQ, meaning nothing in reality, or all kids walking around with rotted or no teeth? Yeah, keep reading bullshit!

My town doesn't add Fluoride to its water and kids aren't walking around with rotted or no teeth? I know lots of people on well water and no Fluoride, They have teeth?