How did you cut out tap water, heat, microplastics, teflon, and the western diet?
Micro plastics was hard since you kinda have to choose between bottled water or tap water! We got a water filter for this one.
Heat meant loose underpants and no warm baths ever.
Teflon- easy. Replace with a carbon steel pan. Improve your chef skills AND sperm!
Western diet is basically high sugar and refined carbs. Just didn’t eat anything with refined sugar on the label in any amount whatsoever (I lost weight fast)
also switched to organic meat and dairy to minimise antibiotics. Can’t say if that made any difference but at least I was being nicer to animals
Is that enough?
I keep reading about how microplastics can be too small for a carbon filter and that you would need a reverse osmosis device, to completely remove plastics.
I can't say am really sold on using a device with a plastic membrane to completely remove plastics.
All the online materials on the topic are for the majority just product placements, it feels very disorienting to be able to make a data driven decision. Do you have any insight.
It must have been enough since his sperm count increased 4x, no?
Either the filter worked or microplastics don't effect sperm count much.
“Something changed, therefore this must be the reason” is a fallacy if there isn’t additional supporting evidence.
That said. If I lived in a village that was attacked by tigers regularly for 6 months, and I installed a tiger filter which stopped the attacks, I would gladly pay 30 bucks for that ($30 is what a faucet water filter costs).
Disclaimer: I don't own a water filter or a tiger filter.
Micro plastics have been found in the muscle tissue of ocean fish[1].
Micro plastics are everywhere, not just in water bottles.
[1]https://adfpi.org/2020/04/15/microplastic-particles-identifi...
Examples:
- Pizza sauce from crushed tomatoes, tomato puré and spices.
- Marinade for marinating meat from spices and olive oil and either balsamic vinegar or lime.
- Pick my own blueberries that I freeze and put in plain yoghurt.
I just ate a lot of vegetables and meat. Old school diet!
Plus like the comment below, just making things from scratch. Often they taste just as good - the sugar was just in there because they used cheap / unripe ingredients that don't taste of anything.