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I wonder how much is due to the amount of plastic we've been in contact with. I cringe to think about all the plastic wrapped, or Tupperware stored foods I've microwaved over my lifetime. Or all the water from plastic bottles I've drank.
Most of it is likely explained by obesity. Solve that and then you can worry about plastics and Roundup if you like.
I wonder how much of the increase in obesity rates is attributable to having un-digestible microplastics stuck in our guts and bowels?
It may or may not have an effect, but the food industry 100% has a lot to do with it.
Are you suggesting that the excess weight deemed to be obesity is from plastics and not fat? And that both the toxicity of the plastic and its distribution in the body mimics what we would expect fat to do?
It seems that regardless it would be very noticeable to doctors performing physicals if many of their obese patients were actually stuffed with microplastics instead. I'm sure you could find positive support for this in the medical literature if it had a modicum of truth to it.
Studying microplastics in humans is still new. There are in fact a few studies that roughyl support atsur's allegation(based on a pubmed search for "microplastics obesity"). These studies don't have plastic acting as fat but rather that plastic causes signaling for fatty acid synthesis and reduction of lipolytic signaling. So basically plastics signal for you to be fat and can make it harder to lose fat.
Very minimal human data and not much that looks at direct cause-effect but there is at least a correlation that bears consideration.
Slightly more plausible than 5G, at least.
Sugar content is driving obesity. Not plastic consumption.