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I expect endocrine disrupters to play a big role in low sperm counts, low testosterone, increases obesity, specific cancers, probably many other things. They h
by filoeleven 4y ago
I expect endocrine disrupters to play a big role in low sperm counts, low testosterone, increases obesity, specific cancers, probably many other things.
They have outsized effects at very low levels, and we aren’t very good at regulating exposure to them. See for example the whole BPA thing (along with many other plastics), PFAS, etc.
- klipt 4y agoAnd as soon as BPA was discouraged companies switched to the close analog BPS which hadn't been proven harmful yet.
- filoeleven 4y agoYep. And a cursory search, because I hadn’t heard of this one, shows that BPS also has pretty significant effects on animals that are not humans. Maybe we’re special though! I’ve read that the EU is more proactive about banning chemicals: companies there have to prove that they are safe for humans, vs the US where companies can go wild unless and until the chemicals are proven to be unsafe for humans. I don’t know if that’s true though; I haven’t looked deeply into it.