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Also it's not just endocrine disruption. Forever chemicals and microplastics can lodge in muscle and cause accumulated damage as the body tries to encapsulate i

Also it's not just endocrine disruption. Forever chemicals and microplastics can lodge in muscle and cause accumulated damage as the body tries to encapsulate it to keep from getting injured. And the circulatory system where it can clog arteries/veins/capillaries and cut off circulation. The images in this paper show plastic fibers embedded in fish muscle: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719346169 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971... Maybe most particles are too large to cross the intestinal lining, but can they prove that's still the case with "leaky gut" which a large number of people in the US are susceptible to due to the missing fiber in our diet? What about worse inflammation like IBS, IBD, Crohn's disease and diverticulitis? https://nypost.com/2021/12/23/irritable-bowel-syndrome-linked-to-more-microplastics-in-gut/ https://nypost.com/2021/12/23/irritable-bowel-syndrome-linke... We eat a credit card's worth of microplastic every week, mostly coming from our water supply apparently. This is the kind of news whose implications are so serious that it's much easier to just ignore it!

DoingIsLearning 4y ago
> We eat a credit card's worth of microplastic every week, mostly coming from our water supply apparently There ia a lot written about this online but they always skim over the detail of how humans actually ingest this. Do you have any source that explains that the source is mostly via our water supply?
- zackmorris 4y ago
  Shoot I can't remember where I read that offhand. I did find this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6449537/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6449537/ In figure 1, untreated tap water ranked higher than bottled water in plastic particle count per unit volume. They conclude that standardization of micro plastic analysis and more studies are needed. It's said that we should never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, but, the plastics lobby has so much power that suggesting they had nothing to do with our ignorance of this issue is.. laughable at best.
Zacru 4y ago
>We eat a credit card's worth of microplastic every week No, we don't. Here is a 4 minute video explaining how this bit of misinformation came to be spread across the internet. https://youtu.be/2Ntp6BqhSng https://youtu.be/2Ntp6BqhSng
- zackmorris 4y ago
  Thanks for that, I hadn't seen it, so I'll stop ranting about eating plastic until I see new evidence. Also I'm a big fan of Hank Green, but his proof is still just one data point in a mountain of evidence to the contrary. I feel that microplastics are a symptom of deregulation and lack of enforcement of existing laws, mostly due to the factory farming lobby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPbF45-ZB5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPbF45-ZB5M

DoingIsLearning 4y ago

> We eat a credit card's worth of microplastic every week, mostly coming from our water supply apparently There ia a lot written about this online but they always skim over the detail of how humans actually ingest this. Do you have any source that explains that the source is mostly via our water supply?

zackmorris 4y ago
Shoot I can't remember where I read that offhand. I did find this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6449537/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6449537/ In figure 1, untreated tap water ranked higher than bottled water in plastic particle count per unit volume. They conclude that standardization of micro plastic analysis and more studies are needed. It's said that we should never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, but, the plastics lobby has so much power that suggesting they had nothing to do with our ignorance of this issue is.. laughable at best.

Zacru 4y ago

>We eat a credit card's worth of microplastic every week No, we don't. Here is a 4 minute video explaining how this bit of misinformation came to be spread across the internet. https://youtu.be/2Ntp6BqhSng https://youtu.be/2Ntp6BqhSng

zackmorris 4y ago
Thanks for that, I hadn't seen it, so I'll stop ranting about eating plastic until I see new evidence. Also I'm a big fan of Hank Green, but his proof is still just one data point in a mountain of evidence to the contrary. I feel that microplastics are a symptom of deregulation and lack of enforcement of existing laws, mostly due to the factory farming lobby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPbF45-ZB5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPbF45-ZB5M