Chinese scientists say further research on potential harm to reproduction from contamination is ‘imperative’
  • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    5 months ago

    So… everytime I nut it’s like a microplastic glitter cannon?

    🎉🎉🎉

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    381·
    5 months ago

    If you can think of a better way to make our children immune to the plastic virus, I’d like to hear it.

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.caEnglish
      151·
      5 months ago

      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!

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    32·
    5 months ago

    Everything is contaminated with micro plastics.

    Got it! Understood.

    1. What damage is it doing in these places?
    2. How do we mitigate that damage?

    That’s what papers should be focusing on at this point IMHO.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      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.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • venusaur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    241·
    5 months ago

    So you inject some of those plastic-eating worms into your balls and problem solved.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    5 months ago

    it would be funny if the thing that eventually destroys us is some kind of genetic timebomb microplastic syndrome.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Yes. That’s how you get plastic particles up the hoo-ha. Or no, wait.

        So wait, if you didn’t use a Teflon condom, what particles would you find in people’s vaginas? Does that mean that plastic wants to become human? 🤔😯

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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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