Exposure to phthalate compromises brain function in adult vertebrates
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Another emerging idea is that much of the negative health trend that’s been progressing extra rapidly since the 90’s is the result of mitochondrial dysfunction, driven by the multifactored (ultraprocessed foods, icides and tives, sedentary lifestyle, the incessant toxin-boosted immune shocks throughout development, possibly even omnipresent modulated emf) assault on our biology. It makes a lot of sense, to me at least, that crippling the source of cellular energy would precipitate seemingly unrelated chronic pathologies. This last paragraph especially is still highly speculative and controversial.
This doesn’t directly go to anything I said, but I will share this fun review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221475002...
But wait, there's more: https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/missed-vaccinations-did-n...
Missing vaccines did not reduce the incidence of SIDS. This is as close to a clean experiment as possible to get.
They use statistics incorrectly. They looked at VAERS that is _literally_ meant for reports of adverse effects.
So it's of course correlated with SIDS. The reverse analysis would have proven them wrong.
Of mortality that occurred within 60 days post-vaccination and was reported to VAERS.
I suspect that the vast majority of SIDS deaths that happen a month after vaccination are not in the database.
Looking at the reportable events tables for VAERS, some vaccine-specific symptoms have longer reporting periods but generic symptoms like anaphylactic shock only have to be reported for a couple days.
From personal experience I can say a dietary change reduced systemic inflammation for me and had as much of an effect on recovery as medication treatment. The anti-inflammatory diet eliminates foods well-known to cause inflammation in a sizable portion of the population. Out gut micro-biome takes the pharmacokinetics of nutrition even deeper by introducing another layer of breakdown or secretion.
Edit: expanding a bit more on the idea. DIYing all the stuff you’d need to avoid plastics is a much bigger identity statement than neurodivergent. Tho saying I’ve been subtly poisoned is far less sexy than saying I’m neurodivergent.
The biggest change was giving all of my plants real planters. They are so much happier now :)
The problem is that when I have conversations with people about soy turning me trans or social media turning me trans they are often trying to use that as a way to deny me any agency over my own life.
Isn't this pretty obviously true? Some chemical in the womb caused every one of us to be or feel the gender they do.
Girls are born with all their eggs, and so a pregnant woman who is having a girl is also carrying half her grandchild.
Now, from what I’ve read before about stress, heavy stress like living in a war zone can produce so much cortisol than it affects the unborn child. Given this, I suspect this could also effect a soon to be born girl’s eggs too!
We know that a living being is just not only DNA, but also its environment; now on top of that add all the big complexity of human social behaviour and gender into it. I doubt they will find a "cause" to trans-ness.
As a thought experiment, it seems hard to intentionally design a drug that changes what year puberty onset starts at without having some impact on LGBTQ+ prevalence.
I can tell you my attraction has been consistent before and after puberty. And trans friends speak of having gender dystopia at a very young age.
More openly trans people for sure. But who knows how many kept it bottled up and hidden, perhaps even from themselves, throughout history?
And I just remembered a girl I studied with whose ex-boyfriends turned gay or bisexual post-relationship. Pretty sure it was her gut bacteria.
It was like $60 a bottle for a 1 month supply, but I was told that oral antibiotics can wreck your gut biome so I figured this was the ideal time to repair/replace the biome I have.
In the 6 weeks since then I've lost ~30 lbs (I am following a diet, of course, this has been wildly successful but intentional in the abstract) and I have more energy, sleep better, and have lost my baseline "snack late at night" urges. Physiologically I do not feel deprived of food, hungry, or tired all the time like I have with previous diets. I've also cut my caffeine intake to almost 1/3rd of its previous amount and I drink more water.
I am sure there's a lot going on beside that, so I am not blaming my progress on the 1 thing by itself, but that being said, it does seem highly coincidental and correlated.
Might be worth a deeper dive, blow out (mostly) healthy people's gut bacteria, replace it with very specific blends, accumulate the data on what changes happen or what people report happening in the 2 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months 1 year afterward.
> soy turning me trans or social media turning me trans I agree is absolutely mind-numbingly naive.
However, I feel like there's only so many options for where sexuality and gender-identity can come from -- and if we know there's no god doing it, and we know it's not entirely learned (because of case studies of surgeons who assigned a gender to babies with ambiguous genitals), the remainder must be from the environment... and it just so happens that almost all of the body's signaling around gender, puberty, and development is chemicals in one form or another.
What else would it be?
It seems sloppy not to attempt to address the relevance of typical human exposure to the study amounts?
No other group seemed interested in doing the study of this specific material
Ideally now some other groups are interested
The obvious thing to do would be to use mice and put phtalates in their food. Maybe I am missing something, but it seems like a much better model if studying the potential effect in humans is the goal.
My dilemma is that a massive car battery plant is being built right next to a local creek. The city water intake is down river. They obviously placed the plant next to a creek for a reason. The creek already smells like sewage because they have a water treatment plant on it. My nose tells me not to trust the quality of their "treating of water", since the creek smells like sewage and has algae blooms.
So was thinking of getting a kitchen RO unit. Currently use a Britta filter.
I make a water sweetener with a variety of electrolytes and sugar, and regularly add a tiny bit to my water bottle. Placebo or no, I love it.
High density polyethylene is made without plasticizers.
> My nose tells me not to trust the quality of their "treating of water", since the creek smells like sewage and has algae blooms.
That's hydrogen sulfide. Humans are _highly_ sensitive to it, but in general it's safe in itself.
But to answer your question, I'd speculate that the filtered water from the RO filter would be superior to anything coming out of your tap, even if it had phthalates in the filter. You also have to account for PFAS, heavy metals, medicines people excrete back into the water supply, and many many other things...
“We’ve banned more than 240 typically used ingredients, including parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde donors, oxybenzone, PFAS and EDTA.”
https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/quality-standards/beauty-bo...
Microplastic is now found basically everywhere we look, from our own testicles/ovaries and other organs, to wild animals who never heated a ready meal in the microwave in their life. Yet plastic producers show no intention to err on the side of caution when it comes to plasticizing the planet.
Which is a shame, because there are alternatives.
0 - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/23/health/plastics-in-brain-...
Reminds me of the situation of climate change on Spain. The whole thing blew up yet the only thing they can do is damage control once it is too late.
25 years later and we are drowning in plastic, carrying it in our brains and gonads, it falls from the sky like rain, it is in the food we eat, our newborn children inherit the plastics from their mothers.
If I were a trickster god or the devil himself I couldn't have come up with a better joke than this.
Damn, I'd pretty much forgotten those. So bizarre.
I know for a fact that at the same time those ads were running, many scientists were telling anyone who would listen that plastic wouldn't biodegrade for thousands of years...
And then there's the crazy fact of no one ever being held responsible for all that. I think you're the first person I've heard even mention them for decades; as if they were utterly memory-holed.
Curious about this now, I'll have to look into it a bit. Thanks!
>>> Asia-Pacific is by far the region with the highest sales of plasticizers. According to Ceresana’s forecast, this region of the world, which accounts for almost two-thirds of plasticizer consumption today, will continue to record above-average growth rates in the coming years. Demand for plasticizers is also growing by more than 2% pa in Africa and the Middle East, while it is hardly growing at all in Western Europe
I wouldn't risk heating food with any kind of plastic.
There are so many potential sources, and it doesn't really make any sense to put effort into something that isn't a substantial source.
It's one thing to store a slice of pie in a plastic bowl in the fridge. It's another to store spaghetti sauce.
I think since it eventually reaches ground water so everyone's water supply is at risk, we might consider that eliminating usage in one use packaging that is never recycled is better than thinking about individual use cases.