Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
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Re: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
#2Does anyone know if lead levels matter much in adulthood? Found out my local water had lead, old municipal pipes. Drank it about ten years. Or possibly just two. Either way, wondering if I should be concerned or do anything beyond filtering the water (which I do now)
Re: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
#3Does anyone know if lead levels matter much in adulthood? Found out my local water had lead, old municipal pipes. Drank it about ten years. Or possibly just two. Either way, wondering if I should be concerned or do anything beyond filtering the water (which I do now)
Provided the municipality treats their water correctly the lead should not dissolve into the water. Did you actually have the lead levels tested in the water?
If you're concerned get a blood test for lead levels. No level is good for you but adult exposure is magnitudes less damaging than early childhood (while brain is still developing).
Re: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
#4Does anyone know if lead levels matter much in adulthood? Found out my local water had lead, old municipal pipes. Drank it about ten years. Or possibly just two. Either way, wondering if I should be concerned or do anything beyond filtering the water (which I do now)
Where?
Re: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
#5Does anyone know if lead levels matter much in adulthood? Found out my local water had lead, old municipal pipes. Drank it about ten years. Or possibly just two. Either way, wondering if I should be concerned or do anything beyond filtering the water (which I do now)
lead exposure makes people dumb af and mentally ill
Re: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
#6I recall as a kid, soldering circuit boards. I distinctly remember the label "low lead" and also the smell of the smoke it made. At times, and this is stupid, i would find myself chewing on a piece of the unburnt solder as i debugged a circuit board. Mistakes were made...
Re: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
#7Does anyone know if lead levels matter much in adulthood? Found out my local water had lead, old municipal pipes. Drank it about ten years. Or possibly just two. Either way, wondering if I should be concerned or do anything beyond filtering the water (which I do now)
lead exposure makes people dumb af and mentally ill
Crude, poor delivery but you may be on to something.
I am curious if this is why you see generational differences in mental models and belief systems (there is data showing an inverse relationship between religiosity and intelligence [1] [2]), and why younger, healthier cohorts operate with different mental models.
Riffing, if younger cohorts are healthier, you’d expect their average/aggregate cognitive ability to be higher, leading to social stratification.
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23921675/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence
Re: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
#8I recall as a kid, soldering circuit boards. I distinctly remember the label "low lead" and also the smell of the smoke it made. At times, and this is stupid, i would find myself chewing on a piece of the unburnt solder as i debugged a circuit board. Mistakes were made...
When I was a kid, I explicitly didn't use non-leaded solder because I liked the smell of the leaded one. Mistakes indeed
Re: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
#9Curious if theres any data on how US compares to other countries
Re: Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
#10Curious if theres any data on how US compares to other countries
This would be interesting to see - considering most European countries banned lead paint long before the US, I would expect exposure rates to be lower.