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My bet is on the microplastics that have been found everywhere, from the arctic snow[1] down to the placenta of unborn babies[2]. They are known to be endocrine
by mhitza 4y ago
My bet is on the microplastics that have been found everywhere, from the arctic snow[1] down to the placenta of unborn babies[2]. They are known to be endocrine disruptors, however they only got their media spotlight (as far as I am aware) in the last ~4 years. Thus we're far away from being able to fully understand their effects on the human body.
Fun part is that I have some crazy (non-scietifically backed) theories that they are the cause of behavioral changes in humans which became more prominent in our society in the last 10-20 years. Unfortunately this is unresearched territory, as the only important article I came across were related to animals thus far [3][4]
[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/microplastics-found-in-arctic-snow https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/micro...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/22/microplastics-revealed-in-placentas-unborn-babies https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/22/micropla...
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32629346/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32629346/
[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31673028/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31673028/
- OGWhales 4y agoI wonder how we can even determine what effects microplastics have on the human body when they are so prolific that every human on earth has them. Comparing with humans from the past has many challenges, so I guess the best we can do is comparing people that have more to those with less.