Elder millennial here, I get all three! What’s my prize?
Hate to break it to you, but you are also full of Teflon.
And Teflon is also a plastic
Sorry, it’s hard to think with all this plastic in my brain.
Don’t forget the lead and steel.
Rock and stone!!
for Karl!
Steel? 🤔
I think they might be referring to when steel workers were exposed to heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and manganese through their work.
Mango knees?
Yeah… Steel wouldn’t be a big deal. It’s mainly iron and carbon, both things that our bodies use.
I came to say this. I have also noticed a strong trend amongst people from each generation for health.
Teflon was introduced in 1938, when my grandfather was 11. In the 1955, when my father was born, is the last time that we have Teflon untainted blood from. At some point between 1955 and 1985 when I was born, Teflon proliferated to the point that it was being found in every blood sample around the world.
So my grandfather lived ~40-50 years without being massively contaminated with Teflon, my father probably got to adulthood, and I have never been without it. Now an anecdotal sample that follows a larger trend. My grandfather is in his 90’s with pretty good health and is still going pretty strong. My father and both of his siblings are in their 60’s-70’s and all have failing health, and I know so few people in my own age range that are actually healthy without autoimmune disease or other systemic issue that I couldn’t fill a high school auditorium with them.
Not saying that there’s nothing wrong with microplastics or PFAS, but keep in mind there’s survival bias at play here.
I have seen the exact opposite as, aside from obesity problems, each generation I’ve seen has had significantly higher life expectancy than the last.
I know multiple people now who have outlived the short life expectancy their health complications in the 80s supposedly gave them. I know a few families who have people living longer than anyone else in their blood line ever has. The heart and lung problems that killed off my grandparents have been dealt with now and my parents and my generation are already outliving them and far healthier at our ages.
This is all thanks to great medical advancement, of course, but the point is this isn’t some dire threat that warrants doom and gloom, but another medical hurdle for us to be aware of and work out like we have all the others.
And they’re all full of microplastics, and we also all have a decent amount of lead.
And animal 'roids AND microplastics
At least the animal 'roids are much more avoidable.
Yes, by either raising your own farm animals, buying dairy and meat products from known and truly eco producers or going vegan. The last option, though, might get you into another category of chemicals and/or GMOs if you don’t carefully select the products and categories based on labeling and nutritional values and knowledge
…or by living in Sweden :)
Guess that’s not really an option for most though, lol
Teflon is so unreactive (by design) that it largely passes right through you.
Scientists are still learning about the effects of PFAS on humans, but studies show these chemicals can harm different systems in the body.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry says exposure to PFAS may lead to higher risk for kidney or testicular cancer, increased cholesterol levels, and damage to the liver and immune system.
My hospital sent an email out that for unknown reasons liver disease is on the rise for non drinkers and people without diabetes.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-health-risk-water
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106863211/the-dangers-of-forever-chemicals
Well it also looks like PFAS is a big group of chemicals, and brand name Teflon now uses a specific version called PTFE which they (can you trust them?) claim is not as bad as PFAS.
But even if that’s true, the production of it still produces tons of known toxic waste.
Ya know… I think my original notion I got from Johnny Harris…. Whom I’ve actually grown a bit skeptical of lately.
I switched over to ceramic pans, specifically the Ayesha Curry ones, but who knows if that will be bad in the future. I tried the Caphalon ceramic and those were horrible. The nonstick pans are bad for you over a certain temperature where it breaks down. There’s an excellent movie called Dark Waters about the original lawsuit and that man is a hero.
You seem to know this so I’ll ask. Are all non stick pans PFAS? If not, how to tell if it’s a good one?
Ceramic pans are non stick as well as properly seasoned cast iron, neither of which uses Teflon.
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The problem is that it’s so inert, it becomes impossible to remove from a contaminated environment or particularly a person’s blood stream.
The amount that inevitably gets caught in your blood will just stay in your body forever, settling down in a critical organ like your brain or kidneys and giving you cancer or some other horrible problem.
Sounds pleasant
We’re running on theory alone here, but if thats true, then its too inert to be reabsorbed by your kidneys and therefore would pass into your urine and leave your body that way. Also how is it causing cancer if it’s inert?
Much more in depth NIH article (go to section 3)
We are definitely NOT in theory territory here, there have been studies and reports of people directly suffering from the effects of PFAS, what we are not clear on is how it’s interacting with our bodies.
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Please stop the ride, I want off
“Good News, Everyone!”
-Climate Change
The Dacia Sandero!
Unfortunately everyone is full of Microplastics and Teflon.
So we won’t decompose or stick to things. Where’s the downside?
Not sticking to things is bad news for Spiderman.
This is terrible news. I’ve wanted to be a spider man since I was a young boy.
That might be the creatures that are evolving to eat plastics.
Now I’m 2x sadder ☹️
Don’t forget about asbestos!
Asbestos? Sheeeit, wait until we get to nanostuctures!
Nanostructures? Sheeit, wait until we get to responding to ourselves from another federated service! Wait, what were we talking about?
How masterbatory
I’ve read it’s good for the prostate.
You may be entitled to compensation
You’ll get $9.37 and the lawyers will get $230 billion.
Bless you.
Climate apocalypse
Is Uncle Asbestos coming?
He’ll do asbestos he can to make it!
That’s great-grandpa.
My mother (a boomer) died of an asbestos cancer (one of the better kinds of asbestos deaths) because her mother used asbestos heat spreaders on the stove
Those were asbestos cloth and they slowly disintegrated during use (between the stove and the pans) putting asbestos fibres into the air
I mean it wasn’t banned until the 70s.
Depends on where you live. In some countries it wasn’t banned until the 80s, 90s, or even later.
It’s still in use in many parts of the world
Russia is the biggest asbestos exporterAnd it used to be Australia.
Everything there is trying to kill you!
Great grandparent of these yutes.
Right inside of you (r lungs)
Gen X over here on all three like it was gonna be a party.
Gen Z - radiation and climate change.
Nope. Still microplastics.
Most of gen Z are in their 20s, I thought we counted as the last spiderman :(
The reality is that all 3 are full of micro plastics. And there’s some overlap in the Teflon lead generation. And non stick material is still not all that great.
Really, the only problem we’ve solved kinda is lead, unless you’re poor.
To be fair most people still cook with teflon, albeit PFOA-free, so we’re still actively consuming teflon. And the worst part? You need to use plastic cooking-utensils with teflon pans. And as plastic utensils wear down they shed lots of microplastics straight into your food.
I’m usually very sceptical about things that “might supposedly” be bad for you, but even I refuse to buy any teflon pan and/or plastic cooking utensils. I now use cast iron with steel utensils :D
what radiation?
With how much reddit and lemmy suck up to nuclear energie, I dont doubt that our ground water will be fully poluted with nuclear waste soon
Where would the nuclear waste come from?
Atoms
Atoms decaying *
Pfff. You can’t trust atoms. They make up everything.
Yes, as that is a well known regular occurrence with modern nuclear power plants…
If you knew anything about how that works (or how to spell energy) you’d realize what a stupid statement that was.
Radiation? That’s were the lead poisoning comes in handy ;)
IQ decline and insanity.
At least I have something to blame for my mental issues
Trust me, Microplastics boy. You’re full of those other things too.
Also all three of you are likely full of shit … because your colons are full of cancerous polyps.
Now what does cancerous polyps have to do with my shit levels?
Haha. Shut up, you fuck.
I had those removed, thanks.
Me looking at what our government is doing:
Funding the big corporations that poison us, because so many are anti regulation.
Except of course the regulations against defending ourselves.
The kids are also full of lead but its alot more short term
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