This is the best summary I could come up with:
Recent studies in mice have reported that microplastics reduced sperm count and caused abnormalities and hormone disruption.
Microplastics have also recently been discovered in human blood, placentas and breast milk, indicating widespread contamination of people’s bodies.
The impact on health is as yet unknown but microplastics have been shown to cause damage to human cells in the laboratory.
“As emerging research increasingly implicates microplastic exposure as a potential factor impacting human health, understanding the extent of human contamination and its relation to reproductive outcomes is imperative,” said Ning Li, of Qingdao University in China, and colleagues.
In March, doctors warned of potentially life-threatening effects after finding a substantially raised risk of stroke, heart attack and earlier death in people whose blood vessels were contaminated with microscopic plastics.
“If microplastic pollution impacts the critical reproductive process, as evidenced in particular by the decline in seminal quality recorded in recent decades globally, it may prove to be [even worse] for our species in the not too distant future.”
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So you inject some of those plastic-eating worms into your balls and problem solved.
I … umm … like I don’t have testicles but if someone suggested I do this to my ovaries, they’d be having a really big bad day.
It’s just a little nibble
Don’t worry, Judge Alito and his band of supremes are right on it. I’m sure.
So… everytime I nut it’s like a microplastic glitter cannon?
🎉🎉🎉
The stars bursting in air, the glitter every… where.
They found macroplastics in my sample. Plastics so dang macro, they skipped the microscope and put my sample straight in the recycling bin to be sent off and become a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi.
If you can think of a better way to make our children immune to the plastic virus, I’d like to hear it.
I gave this award out earlier but the whole post was deleted … meaning I get to give it to you instead.
Congratulations on winning the snark award of the day Squiddy!
I do my part.
And happy cake day!
Thanks! I didn’t even realize it was my anniversary.
Everything is contaminated with micro plastics.
Got it! Understood.
- What damage is it doing in these places?
- How do we mitigate that damage?
That’s what papers should be focusing on at this point IMHO.
It’s hard to figure out exactly what’s the damage when the contamination is so widespread.
A study to find the effects of the microplastics might be to find some amount of men with microplastics and some without, and follow up with those men overtime to see if the ones without microplastics have less reproductive issues, cancer rates, etc. instead they find everyone is contaminated so there’s no one we can make a comparison to.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJNcV12xJfw Dr Swan has been trying to warn us.
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They would have to find men without microplastics, which might end up being extremely difficult.
Billionaires endorsing micro plastic testicle cleansing treatments in 5, 4, 3…
Okay sir, this is gonna feel a little cold for a few seconds okay, but it warms up a little. I’m just gonna poke this tube up your urethra. Oh that? That’s the ultrasonic creame and we use this wand to direct the energy towards the bad plastics. Not the good plastics, those we don’t have to worry about.
PVC is stored in the balls.
There’s a humorous acronym in there somewhere. P for penis…
I’m just glad I found a cheap renewable way to get filament for my 3d printer
Too bad you don’t have a bigger extrusion nozzle!
It’s not the thickness of the nozzle that matters but how you use your hotend
A small nozzle is perfectly sufficient if you’re working with enough axes.
I never noticed that the plural of axe and axis are spelled the same.
That’s what people with small extrusion nozzles say!
But also
Could it be possible their test kits are contaminating the samples?
Next time they’ll store it in glass containers
At first I read “tasted”…
What, you’ve never heard of a taste test?
Probably that too.
Soon we’ll be able to impregnate sex dolls.
I’ve been trying for ages
What ages?
it would be funny if the thing that eventually destroys us is some kind of genetic timebomb microplastic syndrome.
Let me coin the phrase acronym TBMS.
Don’t worry baby it’s mostly teflon
