Microplastics #MaleHealth #EnvironmentalImpact
What Are Microplastics?
Microplastics are tiny plastic particles, typically less than 5mm in size. 🌱 They result from the breakdown of larger plastic waste and are found in oceans, rivers, soil, air, and even food. Shocking, right?
Microplastics in Our Bodies
A recent study indicates microplastics have entered the male reproductive system, including testicles. 😳 Given the pervasive use of plastics in packaging and processing, maybe it’s not too surprising.
How Do Microplastics Get There?
- Processed foods 🍔
- Drinking water 🚰
- Airborne microplastics 🌀
- Personal care products like toothpaste and creams 🧴
These tiny particles can penetrate various body systems and reach sensitive areas.
Health Concerns for Future Generations
Concerns for the future generations are justified:
- Fertility Issues: Microplastics may affect sperm quality and count.
- Hormonal Imbalances: Disrupt the endocrine system.
- Genetic Mutations: Can cause long-term genetic changes.
Protecting Yourself from Microplastics
While it’s hard to avoid microplastics entirely, you can reduce exposure:
- Filter Water: Use high-quality water filters.
- Choose Fresh Foods: Avoid heavily packaged and processed items.
- Ventilate Living Spaces: Reduce airborne particles.
- Personal Care: Opt for organic and natural products.
Let’s Talk Solutions
- Reduce Plastic Use: Bring your own bags and containers.
- Support Environmental Policies: Advocate for stricter regulations.
- Stay Informed 📚: Awareness is key to making better choices.
A Collective Effort for a Safer Future
This issue isn’t just personal; it’s global. Taking individual and collective actions will lead to a healthier environment and future generations. 🌍
How do you guys feel about this? Let’s talk about it in the comments below! 💬
I wasn’t surprised considering researchers found microplastic particles in much more unlikely places than the human body many years ago.
Speak for yourself and your own balls.
Only megaplastics in my balls, bro
I’m trying my hardest to get them out several times a day
Microplastics are in everything. **Everything**.
Not just our balls, and it’s not new.
Yeah, it’s not good for us and the damage can only be guessed at, but we’re already stuck in the deep end of the pool. All we can really do is tread water and try to survive.
sorry to break it to you but microplastics has been found all over the place in human body. including bloodstream, lungs, placenta and the entirety of digestive system. so decreasing sperm count is on the list of a host of other shit that will plague the future generation- mainly cancer.
Only found in male testicles?
Not female testicles?
I’m shocked personally.
wish they would pay rent
We don’t know the long-term effects yet. I think dumping trash in the ocean is one of the main ways it happens. Something eats it, then something eats that, then we eat that.
Fair trade off that it was a good use to protect food from spoiling and getting people sick. But once there are other resources, no need to keep making things worse. Make a change back to paper or biodegradable materials that are less harmful to the earth. Stop producing so much plastic. Start making choices in the future to prevent this from getting worse. Why just accept it for the norm? It’s not going to get better.
I do wonder how much it contributed to my low-T diagnosis. Now that I have prescription testosterone, I don’t particularly care about this specific issue. I do care that there are likely microplastic settling in other far more important organs though.
Our grandfathers were full of asbestos, our fathers full of lead, and we’re full of microplastics. It’s not surprising.
I have uranium in mine and when they blast mf destruction everywhere.
Not a fan of having my body poisoned, no.
The same way I feel about the fact that one day, the sun will swallow the earth. Can’t do nothing about it, so why worry?
It’s too late for us and probably at least the next 3 generations. Even if we stopped all plastic right now and focused hardcore on cleanup there’s already just soooo much out there it’s gonna take probably centuries or more to get most of it out of our cycles or whatever. Same thing with that Teflon chemical idk how we’d ever get rid of that.
I don’t really care
Well I can’t feel them so if I can’t feel them, I’m gonna ignore them
I am worried about it. I try not to use plastic in everyday life. Use glass, stone, wood, steel products wherever you can, especially food/drink containers. Most of our clothing has plastic fabrics in it so I try to buy 100% cotton or wool. No plastic water bottles, even if it says “BPA Free.” I even use boar hair toothbrush instead of the plastic fiber toothbrushes everyone uses.
Not I think there’s a lot more to it than that, too. Water bottles, plastic cutting boards, plastic cutlery. We had been using the plastic ikea cutlery and dishes for our kids for a while when I took a bite from someone’s plate and it tasted STRONGLY of plastic. That stuff is just leaching into the food. We tossed it all and got stainless steel for the little ones.
Oh, nylon cooking utensils! Every nylon spatula I’ve ever seen has a melted blade, you cook with one of those and you’re just pouring liquid nylon into your food. Wood, steel, or silicone here.
I knew that GI Joe I shoved up my ass as a kid was going to come back to haunt me. Who knew
It’s why testosterone levels have decreased among men and young men in general. With reports out there with gatorade having cancer causing ingredients, and the chemical that big pharma keeps dumping that end up in the drinking water, you have to wonder all the other things that lower testosterone and make us sick from out food to lotions and shampoo.
Not the only thing micro I got down there
Super precautious to be honest. I first learned of it like 3 years ago during quarantine. I saw my plastic cups I had, I replaced them with glass since I’ve been meaning to upgrade anyway. My kitchen utensils; at first I got the cheapest plastic ones I could get. Now that I started getting some change in my pocket, I replaced them with steel or wood.
I realized that microplastics will likely affect lower-income people more than the rich; who already avoid them. For example, looking at my wardrobe I saw my favorite/longest lasting stuff were made of natural fibers. I bought a few levis a few years ago and the only one to not start falling apart were the ones that were raw denim; 100% cotton.
Yeah I don’t live in fear anymore. Obviously avoid it when you can though, if you are able to. not sure how much this will affect us. but doing what I can to avoid it
I don’t mind them. They add an almost euphoric weight to them that constantly remind me that my balls are there as I walk.
Sometimes, they even make them hang low enough that I sit on them and send a tingling pulse straight up my spine.
Let’s also not forget the advantages of them dipping into the toilet water for a quick dip.
Microplastics are in everything on earth. They can’t even properly research what it’s doing to us because they can’t find a control group that is plastic free enough. I’m way more worried about my possible future kids than my balls
Balls in my balls. Cool.
There was a study a while ago that found them in every human placenta they tested. Kids are born with microplastics