It's amazing how robust the human body is to surviving every little attempt to clog the gears.
Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits
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#202My mum when I was a kid in the 90s: we don't store things in plastic, glass or ceramic only Me when I was a kid in the 90s: mum is a f'ing idiot wtf is wrong with plastic this hippy shit is dumb My mum 2020s: so plastic huh? Me 2020s: ugh.
If you can, there are some great borosilicate glass containers out there. I use them for everything. The ones I have seal well enough that I can fill it with soup and stick it in a backpack, ride somewhere and it's fine on the other side. Thick enough to be basically unbreakable, microwavable, dishwasher-safe, etc. Don't need to worry about tomato staining either like on plastic. I've been thrilled with mine.
Storing leftovers in glass when the entire supply chain is plastic... would be interesting to know how futile this is.
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#203When I clean the lint out of my dryer, I can see a very faint cloud of particles.
Should I be worried about breathing those? I presume a portion of them are plastic from synthetic fibers. Should I be wearing a mask to load/unload the dryer?
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#204Convenient non-plastic solutions need to be developed. After learning about micro plastics and forever chemicals, I started to get paranoid of this stuff. Started cooking at home more and started removing plastic from my daily life. After my wife got pregnant, I keep telling her to avoid plastic, but she doesn't seem to take it seriously. She purchased plastic food containers, I tell her don't microwave food in it, b…
It sounds like you and your wife have different values. I see a lot of people that share her opinion. It's hard for me to not be mad at them since their lack of care is what enables companies to act like this in the first place and not lose customers
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
> because there's no good alternative to wheel tires, it's unlikely we'll see a decrease of pollution here Well, we could stop pretending that God gave cars dominion over the earth and build livable cities.
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Your typical modern American suburb is homes that would be three family homes 60 years ago on land that would fit three of those homes let alone a normal size house. All of this is subsidized by tax write-offs and gasoline that is 50% discounted relative to the rest of the developed world.
Not much freedom of movement when everything even a neighbor is a 15 minute drive away either due to sprawl or trafic.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you can, there are some great borosilicate glass containers out there. I use them for everything. The ones I have seal well enough that I can fill it with soup and stick it in a backpack, ride somewhere and it's fine on the other side. Thick enough to be basically unbreakable, microwavable, dishwasher-safe, etc. Don't need to worry about tomato staining either like on plastic. I've been thrilled with mine.
Storing leftovers in glass when the entire supply chain is plastic... would be interesting to know how futile this is.
Fresh plastic, however. Newly made food-grade plastics will 'leak' a lot less microplastics than anything you reuse.
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#207It would be worth checking that the concentrations of microplastics used in this study are of a similar concentration to those found naturally. Otherwise the research is not very meaningful.
Well, except in the real world whatever amount of nanoplastics we're consuming we consume for decades, starting from in utero.
It's obviously not possible to give a mouse a smaller dose of microplastics over 30 years and measure the cognitive effects.
This is all to say -- your prior shouldn't be "this thing that was never supposed to go into the body is safe until proven otherwise"
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I do not think any air purifiers can fit inside your face mask. I assume in room air purifiers will capture some as they are particles like others that get caught in filters.
The disposable masks were such a shame. We ingested and breathed in the plastic. Then once discarded, it is just plastic pollution.
There's literally no evidence that they shed nano-plastic particles in regular use. Also they need to be disposable to be useful, they're filters which trap things you don't want in your lungs. Also, if you put them into the regular trash, they just go to a land fill, which is totally fine.
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> just listen to a podcast once in a while Sorry, but this just sounds so silly. If only I would take a little bit of time out of my day to pick one of the 45 new podcasts created that morning and learn from its reliable, well sourced arguments!
Is "listen to a podcast" the new "read a book"?
No, it's far worse. You can churn out junk podcast content at a pretty impressive rate, hours a day if you wanted.
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#210So do seed oils and other PUFAs and a thousand other things and if anyone would just listen to a podcast once in a while (like Peter Attia's) they'd learn a thing or two.
The people who think seed oils are unhealthy and cause inflammation are up there with the most ignorant folks in nutrition.
Hearing someone say "seed oils" is a good shibboleth for knowing that your time is about to be wasted.