I've been eating gum for years, building up an immunity for garbage swirling through my system.
You think this is going to stop me? It'll only make me stronger and my poops even less regular
I don’t think it’s caffeine but something in the coffee bean. Coffee gives me the shits but I can drink soda, tea, energy drinks and preworkout and even those shitty little 5 hour energies, all which have caffeine and they don’t cause me digestive distress. It’s so weird
Well, something in espressos helps me a lot with digestion. I just have to be careful on timing. Right after a big meal, it gives me some heartburn. I usually have them an hour or so after meals, and it's great.
Mix it with a good old fashion cancer stick. Best thing to do is down your cup of coffee, go ahead and park your ass on the shitter, light up that cigarette and wait for the mudslide because it WILL be coming along very soon.
I wasn’t shitting right for a few weeks. Definitely because of my poor diet, but I started drinking coffee more often in the morning,(I don’t hate coffee but just generally didn’t drink it)and it actually seemed to help. Know why that is?
>Know why that is?
Yeah. Coffee makes everything contract. Gallbladder, intestines, the whole thing. More gastric juices, more bowel movement, and you get yourself a nice, perfect turd.
We (humanity) removed lead from gasoline. While it impacted that generation, it had less of an impact on future generations. If we cut plastic use in half that would reduce the amount of microplastics with potential to get inside someone.
We’re not doing anything either, I’m sure if everyone was complaining about plastics as much as they complain about everything else the media would be forced to cover this more and more people will care, then hopefully new laws will be in place things get banned so fourth. But like the post said, nobody’s surprised just accepts it.
I am hyped that I can get Teflon lining in my veins for free... And there's nothing big ~~government~~ business, big pharma, or big insurance can do about it!
Imma live forever!!! 🤪
real shit, speaking of heart attacks, wouldn’t it be possible the microplastics are already causing heart attacks & strokes?
if they’re literally in our veins who’s to say they aren’t finding their way into nearly clogged arteries and working like embolisms to stop blood flow?
imagine finding out that this has been getting covered up the last few years
Honestly there are so many studies that need to be done to determine the extent of the potential damages from microplastics that I think we will see the next generation looking at them the same way we view breathing in asbestos, rolling around mercury on your hand, all gasoline being leaded, and the idea of smoking being good for you.
my question is how many of these studies have already been done by the companies that produce these things (like teflon) and were covered up because of the negative results. There are already plentyyyyy of cases like that. People who are quite literally ok with ruining the entire planet so they can get their vacation home in Florida.
executive level humans seem to forget that the phrase “live fast die young” is supposed to only mean *they themselves dying*, NOT *every single one of us dying*
At least, micro-plastics are *somewhat* inert enough that our body can calcify around (see how breast implants get calcified as the human host ages). I’d be more worried about *prions* instead. That cannot be denatured by heat, cannot be tempered by deep-freeze, and are chemically inert enough to withstand outside elements until it cross the blood-brain barrier, and touches your brain matter.
Yeah.
The best part of them all? [Prions can lay dormant in your brain for your entire life](https://www.sciencealert.com/prion-disease-hides-in-brain-for-30-years-before-attacking).
Okay so I feel the need to respond to this. Prions are terrifying. Like absolutely freaking terrifying. But they're also extremely rare. We've had a few outbreaks such as mad cow diseases but these have been contained and quelled. Compare that to microplastics. They're everywhere. They haven't existed in such abundance for a super long time. We're somewhat unsure of the effects and those that we are somewhat certain of [are really not so nice.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666016420300712)
Now with the context of humans repeatedly fucking themselves up with things thought to be inert (e.g. tobacco, thelidemide, asbestos, cfcs and more) downplaying the potential hazards of microplastics goes from naive to downright silly.
I would have hoped for actual pictures instead of someone holding a handful of sand and crap at a landfill. Kinda makes your argument/point appear weak if you have to exaggerate.
I haven't ever seen plastic in blood. I have seen blood with so much fat in it I look just showed it to the ER doc and said want to guess what this is coming back as.
Not discounting the findings as I do believe it, but I wonder if any of those readings may be related to the plastic used in IV or blood draw catheters.
Unless they are defective there shouldn't be any free floating plastic in either the IV or blood draw equipment. But with that said, I had a piece of IV break off in my vein. We had to cut it out. The doctor refused to let me see or have what he removed. I am not sure why. It wouldn't have anything to do with him. As the equipment was defective. Not the hospital or doctors.
No way! Micro plastics are not that big. Micro means microscopic. Anything the size displayed here in your blood would surly be instant death or stroke.
Wowee. Most sobering. Maybe not sobering. I’m shocked. A little scared. Now I want all my veins checked and cleaned. Is it possible or do I have to die first? Kinda defeats the purpose of cleaning them. I’m quite conflicted right now.
This photo shouldn’t be used though. This is clearly a beach and they are talking about plastics in a bloodstream. Most people will assume these are pulled from people’s veins.
That's a bit misleading
https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/science-verify/claims-you-eat-a-credit-cards-worth-of-plastic-per-week-need-context/536-748d91cf-00f1-4de6-8e01-776694ce6fdf
I can't open your link, it says access denied.
>Translated into more imaginable numbers, on average we ingest five grams of MPs per week per person (roughly corresponding to the mass of a credit card) depending on the region in which we live, our lifestyle, and diet (Senathirajah and Palanisami 2021).
From https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12403-022-00470-8
Or they just now though to look to see what other things were in there. For years we didn't what DNA was then boom we found it and found out the not everyone was the same.
Greedy corporations new this would happen when they said plastic is so much better then paper. Just like nuclear energy and now electric vehicles… All make money so rich people can get even richer…. and that’s what it’s about
I gotta read the method they used and equipment list. It would be comically difficult to do any biolab work without using some plastic vessel or exposure to a instrument with plastic housing etc.
They probably had to use a bunch of non-viable particle counters that alarm if you look at it the wrong way
Remember kids, there is plastic in your body oh god it everywhere, its in my organs, my blood, most likely my bones, oh my god where is there not plastic
I think of all the heart health info I've seen over my lifetime. Don't eat this, do that, avoid this. Etc.
Makes you wonder how much of the heart disease we see today isn't hereditary/due to poor lifestyle... but rather the result of microplastics. Seems to me like you're bound to get hella sick from microplastics in your veins - healthy lifestyle or not.
Dreadful.
This is old news, remember seeing this years ago. At the same time it was also announced to be notable in every fish they checked for it. Its still unclear to have any effects for humans or animals. I think this was announced when plastic in the oceans was a big thing and companies were looking to clean it up. I think it was a dutch guy with a boat idea or something. But definitly old news
I've been eating gum for years, building up an immunity for garbage swirling through my system. You think this is going to stop me? It'll only make me stronger and my poops even less regular
>poops even less regular Serious side note: 2-3 espressos a day should help with that
Do this in the morning before you eat anything else. Give it about an hour and a half, and you’ll witness a new shittening.
Yeah. That's the secret sauce. Caffeine, at least in my case, also helps with the consistency. It's ghost poops everyday. My ass is haunted!
New episode of ghost hunters about to drop
I don’t think it’s caffeine but something in the coffee bean. Coffee gives me the shits but I can drink soda, tea, energy drinks and preworkout and even those shitty little 5 hour energies, all which have caffeine and they don’t cause me digestive distress. It’s so weird
Well, something in espressos helps me a lot with digestion. I just have to be careful on timing. Right after a big meal, it gives me some heartburn. I usually have them an hour or so after meals, and it's great.
Lemon water does that for me. If I overeat a bit I’ll drink some lemon water and I dunno if it’s a placebo effect but it feels like it helps digestion
Mix it with a good old fashion cancer stick. Best thing to do is down your cup of coffee, go ahead and park your ass on the shitter, light up that cigarette and wait for the mudslide because it WILL be coming along very soon.
I never eat breakfast, only lunch
Jesus - I didn’t even notice the teeth - thanks for the nightmare fuel
Only one for me
Or just a lot of fiber.
I tried that. It helped, but it also gave me a lot of bloat.
I wasn’t shitting right for a few weeks. Definitely because of my poor diet, but I started drinking coffee more often in the morning,(I don’t hate coffee but just generally didn’t drink it)and it actually seemed to help. Know why that is?
>Know why that is? Yeah. Coffee makes everything contract. Gallbladder, intestines, the whole thing. More gastric juices, more bowel movement, and you get yourself a nice, perfect turd.
Nice
Coffee is a diuretic
Bowel *movement* needs muscles to contract and push out the waste. The caffeine in coffee stimulates these muscles. But yes #1 is shitty diet.
The shitty thing is that nothing will come of this information. We know about it, but nothing will be done by big corporations.
Of course, the rich need their money and us poor people aren't going to get in their way.
It took many years to remove lead from gasoline even tho we already knew that it caused serious health damage
This is going to be the Asbestos of the millennial, gen X and Gen Z era. We are going to find out what the real repercussions are in 30 years.
Its already too late to do anything anyways
It’s not too late to not make it worse.
How can you even make it worse at this point?
% doubles, triples, etc
We (humanity) removed lead from gasoline. While it impacted that generation, it had less of an impact on future generations. If we cut plastic use in half that would reduce the amount of microplastics with potential to get inside someone.
yes, but for us its too late.
"we can't make it better for us so screw future generations" That's not a great attitude to have
Yes, Im not saying thats my attitude either. Im just saying that our generation + a few generations more will have microplastics in them.
They already know. Financial security for big pharma.
You said it, u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes
And I'll say it 1000 times more!!
We’re not doing anything either, I’m sure if everyone was complaining about plastics as much as they complain about everything else the media would be forced to cover this more and more people will care, then hopefully new laws will be in place things get banned so fourth. But like the post said, nobody’s surprised just accepts it.
I am hyped that I can get Teflon lining in my veins for free... And there's nothing big ~~government~~ business, big pharma, or big insurance can do about it! Imma live forever!!! 🤪
Can't have a heart attack when all your arteries are nonstick!
real shit, speaking of heart attacks, wouldn’t it be possible the microplastics are already causing heart attacks & strokes? if they’re literally in our veins who’s to say they aren’t finding their way into nearly clogged arteries and working like embolisms to stop blood flow? imagine finding out that this has been getting covered up the last few years
Honestly there are so many studies that need to be done to determine the extent of the potential damages from microplastics that I think we will see the next generation looking at them the same way we view breathing in asbestos, rolling around mercury on your hand, all gasoline being leaded, and the idea of smoking being good for you. my question is how many of these studies have already been done by the companies that produce these things (like teflon) and were covered up because of the negative results. There are already plentyyyyy of cases like that. People who are quite literally ok with ruining the entire planet so they can get their vacation home in Florida.
executive level humans seem to forget that the phrase “live fast die young” is supposed to only mean *they themselves dying*, NOT *every single one of us dying*
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I need to adjust my daily calorie calculator for plastic and spiders
Lolll you'd love r/1200isjerky
It's almost as though we are the architects of our own destruction
Life in plastic, it's fantastic. You can brush my hair... We've all become one with the barbie-(particles)
At least, micro-plastics are *somewhat* inert enough that our body can calcify around (see how breast implants get calcified as the human host ages). I’d be more worried about *prions* instead. That cannot be denatured by heat, cannot be tempered by deep-freeze, and are chemically inert enough to withstand outside elements until it cross the blood-brain barrier, and touches your brain matter.
You'd have to eat proin infected deer for that to happen right
Yeah. The best part of them all? [Prions can lay dormant in your brain for your entire life](https://www.sciencealert.com/prion-disease-hides-in-brain-for-30-years-before-attacking).
Okay so I feel the need to respond to this. Prions are terrifying. Like absolutely freaking terrifying. But they're also extremely rare. We've had a few outbreaks such as mad cow diseases but these have been contained and quelled. Compare that to microplastics. They're everywhere. They haven't existed in such abundance for a super long time. We're somewhat unsure of the effects and those that we are somewhat certain of [are really not so nice.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666016420300712) Now with the context of humans repeatedly fucking themselves up with things thought to be inert (e.g. tobacco, thelidemide, asbestos, cfcs and more) downplaying the potential hazards of microplastics goes from naive to downright silly.
venison is yummy tho
I would have hoped for actual pictures instead of someone holding a handful of sand and crap at a landfill. Kinda makes your argument/point appear weak if you have to exaggerate.
Think it’s a beach
I agree with you, color and type of sand.
I haven't ever seen plastic in blood. I have seen blood with so much fat in it I look just showed it to the ER doc and said want to guess what this is coming back as.
Agreed.
They’ve even found micro plastics in unborn fetuses
This is why I eat macro plastics instead
those are called implants
Not discounting the findings as I do believe it, but I wonder if any of those readings may be related to the plastic used in IV or blood draw catheters.
It would be interesting to compare a sample from the same person collected using only glass and metal.
Unless they are defective there shouldn't be any free floating plastic in either the IV or blood draw equipment. But with that said, I had a piece of IV break off in my vein. We had to cut it out. The doctor refused to let me see or have what he removed. I am not sure why. It wouldn't have anything to do with him. As the equipment was defective. Not the hospital or doctors.
No way! Micro plastics are not that big. Micro means microscopic. Anything the size displayed here in your blood would surly be instant death or stroke.
That is sand. And you can have a tube of blood that is half fat and still be here.
It's just an eye catching picture not an exact representation. Just read the text, it's more important than the illustrations.
Uh the only thing you can make me read is the title. Plus picture = my reaction. End of story
Microplastics are particles that are 5 mm or less; they can be seen by the naked eye
Gradually Plastinating the living.
100% I have this. working as a waste grinder in a plastic factory that shit might as well be in my dna.
I’d be more worried about the sand
I agree. That shits course and it gets everywhere. I hate sand
Evolution will handle this eventually, hopefully.
I heard we eat like a Credit Cards worth of plastic in a year or something
Me: *eating my microwave Jimmy Dean© breakfast bowl* Also me: this is fine
Wowee. Most sobering. Maybe not sobering. I’m shocked. A little scared. Now I want all my veins checked and cleaned. Is it possible or do I have to die first? Kinda defeats the purpose of cleaning them. I’m quite conflicted right now.
How? Through the lungs? Does the microplastic get inhaled, then passed into the bronchea or something?
|-androids-|
This photo shouldn’t be used though. This is clearly a beach and they are talking about plastics in a bloodstream. Most people will assume these are pulled from people’s veins.
Humans, worst thing to happen to earth
That shit was found out like 10 years ago, just never got that much attention because you know, wouldnt be good for the industry
AITA for thinking it better if Covid would have taken out more of the human race?
I am convinced that the use, manipulation and ingestion of petroleum based products is the sole basis for all cancer.
what petroleum based products are you ingesting?
Microplastics
“Oh no! Suddenly now that it’s affecting us and not just some random sea turtle that’s dying do I actually care about pollution and recycling!”
Actually, we eat around 5 grams every week. That is like eating a credit card every week
That's a bit misleading https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/science-verify/claims-you-eat-a-credit-cards-worth-of-plastic-per-week-need-context/536-748d91cf-00f1-4de6-8e01-776694ce6fdf
I can't open your link, it says access denied. >Translated into more imaginable numbers, on average we ingest five grams of MPs per week per person (roughly corresponding to the mass of a credit card) depending on the region in which we live, our lifestyle, and diet (Senathirajah and Palanisami 2021). From https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12403-022-00470-8
The link says that 5 grams is on the high end and the real numbers are more like 0.1-5 grams per week
In the link I provided, they say it's the average
I know, in my link it shows how that number is probably wrong.
I found the paper, it seemed to be quoted wrongly. Thank you for the clarification
I'm just glad that maybe I'm not munching a visa per week. Regardless I'm sure there is some plastic in all of our brains
I am pretty sure my oldest kid ate way more than that. She kept eating the arms and legs off dolls
Donate blood since it pulls out what's in your system and forces your body to produce more.
It definitely reduces PFAs
You actually believe the shit from this app?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258 They have been found in human blood in this peer reviewed research
It's a news app. Not a misinformation app. It sources news from trusted channels, doesn't make them.
Ok
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Or they just now though to look to see what other things were in there. For years we didn't what DNA was then boom we found it and found out the not everyone was the same.
Greedy corporations new this would happen when they said plastic is so much better then paper. Just like nuclear energy and now electric vehicles… All make money so rich people can get even richer…. and that’s what it’s about
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Plastic has not been around for centuries and centuries.
Hello everyone this is your daily dose of microplastics
We are evolving!!!
They make me more powerful
Nice. I'm excited to see what pollution our grandkids will have in their veins.
So we all prolly have micro plastics in us and it’s probably going to kill us huh
Mama mia we switched lead for the papa-microplastic-ia!
Meh you will die slower of the plastic I am sure.
Anyone know which type of package is it?
At this point what could we even do to avoid it ya know.
we are becoming the very things we throw
I’m sure this is very true for those that eat a lot of processed foods.
FROM THE MOMENT I UNDERSTOOD THE WEAKNESS OF MY FLESH, IT DISGUSTED ME
Don't fear what you cannot change.
I gotta read the method they used and equipment list. It would be comically difficult to do any biolab work without using some plastic vessel or exposure to a instrument with plastic housing etc. They probably had to use a bunch of non-viable particle counters that alarm if you look at it the wrong way
Support your local farmers markets, buy local fresh food.
There's plastic in my brain.
I like how the picture is from a beach, making it seem as though the particles found in veins are somehow the size of staples.
and someone one out there will think just that.
Image unrelated
Remember kids, there is plastic in your body oh god it everywhere, its in my organs, my blood, most likely my bones, oh my god where is there not plastic
Plot twist: we are the plastic
Looks like sand to me....
Isn't there some type of bacteria that eats plastic? When are they gonna start mass producing that?
It’s fantastic, I’m made of plastic.
I wonder how much harder this will kill us than normal deaths though
Can someone explain more in depth for me?? How do they get in our blood ??
They should probably be more concerned with all that sand
I think of all the heart health info I've seen over my lifetime. Don't eat this, do that, avoid this. Etc. Makes you wonder how much of the heart disease we see today isn't hereditary/due to poor lifestyle... but rather the result of microplastics. Seems to me like you're bound to get hella sick from microplastics in your veins - healthy lifestyle or not. Dreadful.
This is old news, remember seeing this years ago. At the same time it was also announced to be notable in every fish they checked for it. Its still unclear to have any effects for humans or animals. I think this was announced when plastic in the oceans was a big thing and companies were looking to clean it up. I think it was a dutch guy with a boat idea or something. But definitly old news
@forbiddensnacks forbidden birthday cake mix
Everyone has Teflon in their bodies too
Hey just think of it this way, if your throat gets split then you can enjoy your final moments squirting confetti from your wound.