Apparently there are already several papers linking plastic pollution to low fertility rates.
Not only plastic pollution but ultra processed diets too linked to low fertility.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 week ago
Teenagers with raging hormones have way less health issues than someone in their late 20s or 30s.
Plastic causes all kinds of hormone issues too that cause infertility, and we use it everywhere. It’s in our food packaging, it’s in our clothes, it’s in the chairs we sit on, the mice and keyboards we use. Take a human apart and you find microplastics everywhere, even in our brains.
Look up Dr. Shanna Swan. It’s basically the one thing she does, and there’s a netflix documentary about it even.
alecbowles@feddit.uk 1 week ago
chunes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The microplastics problem isn’t as bad as we thought. It turns out stearates from latex gloves look exactly like microplastics and were contaminating all the studies. news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-latex-gloves-may-cause…
Shrubbery@piefed.social 1 week ago
Research Super: What are your sources?
Me: I don’t know, some netflix documentary.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 week ago
Yeah let’s all send nature articles to back up everything said on the internet.
Just google plastic infertility or some other combination of terms and see the many studies published and take your pick.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It shocks me that so many people are just blindly downvoting a comment like this. They make a very testable claim, and even cite a specific, easily searchable person, as their source. If you think the claim is unreasonable, it’s very easy to ask them for more background info or sources, preferably while pointing out why you’re sceptical.
To me, the claim that 16-20 year olds that are full to the brim of hormones, and have had less time to be exposed to various pollution than 30-somethings are more fertile seems reasonable off the bat. I have no doubt that I would have become a parent at 18 if it weren’t for contraceptives, yet I’m now closer to 30 and haven’t become a parent despite trying for a while. One side of that is that at 18 you’re more likely to be constantly pounding like bunnies, another side is that stress, pollutants, and probably a whole host of other factors make you less fertile with age.