There's this theory that you can dilute the chemicals by doing frequent blood donations.
Is the leech back?
Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
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#12People born before the 1980 are also of significantly lower IQ up to a 7-8 points due to leaded gas use. The boomers and gen X really did a number on themselves with environmental hazards.
A necessary (?) part of progress IMO. Environmental hazards have been a thing for a lot longer too. Settlements used to be covered in smog due to coal fires for example.
Part of the environmental/emissions argument from developing countries is about past emissions by developed countries. I think it's a fair argument to say given these sacrifices made by past generations in industrialised countries + the benefit of developed cleaner technologies through that industrialisation is an argument against that.
Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
#13People born before the 1980 are also of significantly lower IQ up to a 7-8 points due to leaded gas use. The boomers and gen X really did a number on themselves with environmental hazards.
Us GenXers didn't do this to ourselves. Boomers (and their parents) did it to us.
I was born '74. Alberta, Canada. I remember people raising a huge stink about "guvmint' interference" when leaded gasoline was banned and when seatbelt use became mandatory. And don't even get started about cigarettes and mandatory separate smoking areas at restaurants etc.
"Liberty" and "freedom" were concepts substantially abused and misapplied throughout the 20th century.
Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
#14People born before the 1980 are also of significantly lower IQ up to a 7-8 points due to leaded gas use. The boomers and gen X really did a number on themselves with environmental hazards.
A necessary (?) part of progress IMO. Environmental hazards have been a thing for a lot longer too. Settlements used to be covered in smog due to coal fires for example. Part of the environmental/emissions argument from developing countries is about past emissions by developed countries. I think it's a fair argument to say given these sacrifices made by past generations in industrialised countries + the benefit of de…
> Settlements used to be covered in smog due to coal fires for example.
London first tried to ban burning coal within the city in 1306 due to the air quality.
Re: Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
#15People born before the 1980 are also of significantly lower IQ up to a 7-8 points due to leaded gas use. The boomers and gen X really did a number on themselves with environmental hazards.
Us GenXers didn't do this to ourselves. Boomers (and their parents) did it to us. I was born '74. Alberta, Canada. I remember people raising a huge stink about "guvmint' interference" when leaded gasoline was banned and when seatbelt use became mandatory. And don't even get started about cigarettes and mandatory separate smoking areas at restaurants etc. "Liberty" and "freedom" were concepts substantially abused and…
They still are. Measles was on the road to being eradicated until 10 years ago.
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#16So hard to believe all the skiers and snowboarders were putting PFAS as wax just until couple years ago. Also in Germany, you can buy "permanent baking paper" that is pure PTFE without a problem, which is insane to me.
Teflon pans are still legal in every country in the world and used in every restaurant and food preparation industry.
It's basically impossible to avoid this stuff unless you cook all of your meals from scratch and never eat out anywhere
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#17If this were true, would we not see a corresponding drop in life expectancy?
Dead people are easy to see, the issue is trying to differentiate one cause from everything else.
Smoking for example wasn’t believed to be particularly deadly for a surprisingly long time.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Us GenXers didn't do this to ourselves. Boomers (and their parents) did it to us. I was born '74. Alberta, Canada. I remember people raising a huge stink about "guvmint' interference" when leaded gasoline was banned and when seatbelt use became mandatory. And don't even get started about cigarettes and mandatory separate smoking areas at restaurants etc. "Liberty" and "freedom" were concepts substantially abused and…
They still are. Measles was on the road to being eradicated until 10 years ago.
The part you are leaving out is that illegals (now in the millions), living in the US are almost never vaccinated for measles.
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#20So hard to believe all the skiers and snowboarders were putting PFAS as wax just until couple years ago. Also in Germany, you can buy "permanent baking paper" that is pure PTFE without a problem, which is insane to me.
Teflon pans are still legal in every country in the world and used in every restaurant and food preparation industry. It's basically impossible to avoid this stuff unless you cook all of your meals from scratch and never eat out anywhere
> It's basically impossible to avoid this stuff unless you cook all of your meals from scratch and never eat out anywhere
Which is pretty much what you should do if you are concerned about your health at all.