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What's funny is the guy who discovered BPA was an estrogen mimicking chemical[1] kept having his estrogen sensitive cells triggered whenever he would put them i
by narrator 9y ago
What's funny is the guy who discovered BPA was an estrogen mimicking chemical[1] kept having his estrogen sensitive cells triggered whenever he would put them in plastic test tubes. He called up Corning to ask them what the test tubes were made of and they told him they don't give that info out. So all this lab equipment and stuff that they use to feed animals and all up and down the food supply chain is probably full of this stuff and we all just think the obesity epidemic happened by magic.
[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/1139298/real-story-behind-bisphenol https://www.fastcompany.com/1139298/real-story-behind-bisphe...
- Tharkun 9y agoThat's crazy. I wonder if this also has an impact on hospital patients being tube fed!
- AstralStorm 9y agoProbably not as bad, PVC tubing uses different plasticizers, silicone does not need that. However, other hardware is not of the hook (e.g. plastic bags) and what they use in these materials as well. The most terrible thing is that this might be partly heritable via epigenetics.