Anyone else living in Thailand worried about microplastics entering the body?

[advancebooking]

I saw a podcast by a dr who specialises in toxins. It was on the diary of a CEO channel. 

 

She said even putting food in plastic containers is a risk if the food touches the plastic. Cooking in a pan that has a scratch is an issue. Drinking water from a plastic bottles. Drinking hot coffee from the cup they provide at Amazon or Starbucks. Many examples of how microplastics enter ones body

 

Im now only drinking water from the glass clunky bottles 'crystal' and add rehydration salts to it. 

 

I will now not order grab the hot soup that they put in a plastic bag and deliver to me. 

 

Do you think about consuming microplastics in your daily life or not bothered by it?

 

[scubascuba3]

Too late isn't it? having said that i replaced some plastic microwave bowls the other day, in case

[CallumWK]

10 minutes ago, advancebooking said:

I saw a podcast by a dr who specialises in toxins. It was on the diary of a CEO channel. 

 

I saw a podcast by a dr who specializes in toxins scaremongering .

 

See, I corrected it for you

[Purdey]

Funny that we used to complain about PM2.5. Before that it was petrol fumes. Before that smog. When I read about asbestos I wondered why it is still being used in some countries.

Plastic surgery using silicon seems ok but plastic bottles not. 

Most reports refuse to name the plastic found in people except to say it must be bottles. Yet fibers are much more of a problem. Wash clothes and the fibers rub off. 

It is all very confusing and I await scientists to say exactly which plastics are being found in the body and exactly what they cause.

[KhunLA]

I avoid exposure  as much as I  possibly can.  Use glass and stainless steel for water and food storage, cooking/microwaving.  Transfer most things that I can out of plastic, into glass, if feasible.  

 

Try to only shop in AC'd market (Makro), so not stored in heat, though that probably doesn't help much ... keeps me cool though 

 

Reading above, I always try to wear 100% cotton, though for comfort and not other reason.

 

Plastic definitely has it's uses & purpose, as I'm strongly opposed to paper & wood products.   Especially as a replacement for plastic items.   There is nothing eco friendly about cutting trees down.

[MalcolmB]

I am more concerned by finding insects, cockroaches , gecko krap, etc in restaurant food here.

 

Most of the kitchens are not sealed properly from outside and are teeming with wildlife.

[KhaoTakiab]

14 minutes ago, Purdey said:

Funny that we used to complain about PM2.5. Before that it was petrol fumes. Before that smog. When I read about asbestos I wondered why it is still being used in some countries.

Plastic surgery using silicon seems ok but plastic bottles not. 

Most reports refuse to name the plastic found in people except to say it must be bottles. Yet fibers are much more of a problem. Wash clothes and the fibers rub off. 

It is all very confusing and I await scientists to say exactly which plastics are being found in the body and exactly what they cause.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/05/22/how-do-microplastics-get-in-human-body-found-in-hearts-testicals-blood-health-risk-nanoplastics/

[blaze master]

21 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I avoid exposure  as much as I  possibly can.  Use glass and stainless steel for water and food storage, cooking/microwaving.  Transfer most things that I can out of plastic, into glass, if feasible.  

 

Try to only shop in AC'd market (Makro), so not stored in heat, though that probably doesn't help much ... keeps me cool though 

 

Reading above, I always try to wear 100% cotton, though for comfort and not other reason.

 

Plastic definitely has it's uses & purpose, as I'm strongly opposed to paper & wood products.   Especially as a replacement for plastic items.   There is nothing eco friendly about cutting trees down.

 

And the reforresting isn't the same. The new forest doesn't produce the same quality trees.

[jvs]

 

there is a reason we humans have a big organ called the liver.

I am more concerned what is inside our food but again our liver is very good at getting rid of toxins.

[Purdey]

4 hours ago, KhaoTakiab said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/05/22/how-do-microplastics-get-in-human-body-found-in-hearts-testicals-blood-health-risk-nanoplastics/

"the average person ingests about 5 grams of plastic every week—about the weight of a credit card." Already shown not to be true.

https://www.coastalpollutiontoolbox.org/112121/index.php.en#:~:text=Is

Note that not one single sentence in Forbes says plastic causes cancer or any particular distress. It simply days that there is plastic in the body. Ask those women with enhanced breasts for instance. There are many particles in the body. Only that doesn't sell magazines. 

Remember "by 2030 there will be more plastic than fish in the sea"?

The scientist who researched plastic entering the seas did not say it. Ellen McArthur made it up. (Ask her who counted the fish).

Arsenic and cyanide can be found in the food we eat but you don't get many people who worry about it.

[connda]

Anyone else living in Thailand worried about microplastics entering the body?

 

At my age.  Nope.  Kids and younger folk?  Yeah, it's probably an issue, world-wide.

[Lacessit]

52 minutes ago, Purdey said:

"the average person ingests about 5 grams of plastic every week—about the weight of a credit card." Already shown not to be true.

https://www.coastalpollutiontoolbox.org/112121/index.php.en#:~:text=Is

Note that not one single sentence in Forbes says plastic causes cancer or any particular distress. It simply days that there is plastic in the body. Ask those women with enhanced breasts for instance. There are many particles in the body. Only that doesn't sell magazines. 

Remember "by 2030 there will be more plastic than fish in the sea"?

The scientist who researched plastic entering the seas did not say it. Ellen McArthur made it up. (Ask her who counted the fish).

Arsenic and cyanide can be found in the food we eat but you don't get many people who worry about it.

Paracelsus said "The dose makes the poison". The amount of plastics and plasticiser we ingest is unlikely to be significant.

 

OTOH, plastics have been found at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Not good.

[jas007]

Between the plastics and the junk food and processed food, it seems like we should be avoiding everything these days. Avoiding all the bad stuff is almost impossible, I  try, but I can't get it right 100% of the time.

 

My water comes in plastic bottles.  I use a non-stick frying pan. I sometimes eat processed food.  And if I order food from a restaurant, they may well have used seed oil for cooking. But I'm 73 and have made it this far, so I guess that helps.

[jas007]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

OTOH, plastics have been found at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Not good.

Somewhere, I saw a TV show about pollution.  They went to the most remote place on earth and found plastic bags littering the area.  

 

Cut open a big whale and you'll likely find plastic bags, straws, flip-flops, plastic cups, etc.  It's a real shame. 

[CallumWK]

4 minutes ago, jas007 said:

Between the plastics and the junk food and processed food, it seems like we should be avoiding everything these days. Avoiding all the bad stuff is almost impossible, I  try, but I can't get it right 100% of the time.

 

But we get encouraged to eat meat that was produced in a factory

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, jas007 said:

Somewhere, I saw a TV show about pollution.  They went to the most remote place on earth and found plastic bags littering the area.  

 

Cut open a big whale and you'll likely find plastic bags, straws, flip-flops, plastic cups, etc.  It's a real shame. 

Halong Bay in Vietnam is a Unesco-listed world heritage site.

 

It is truly disgusting how badly it is polluted with floating plastic, mainly polystyrene.

[bunnydrops]

I had to explain to my Thai family that throwing all that plastic out into the fields where it gets plowed under year after year was not a good idea. "Where do you think it goes?" I have got them to throw it in the trash where it goes to the landfill and gets burned😔. One step at a time I guess.

[London Lowf]

Where would we be without plastic?

 

Am I poisoning myself by tapping on the plastic keys on my keyboard whilst my polyester clothes rub against my skin?

 

Quite frankly, the least of my worries.

 

Disclaimer: I have no kids and so I don't worry that the human race will destroy itself one way or another - the planet will survive and recover without us, as it has done after the mass extinctions of the past.

 

[Purdey]

32 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Paracelsus said "The dose makes the poison". The amount of plastics and plasticiser we ingest is unlikely to be significant.

 

OTOH, plastics have been found at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Not good.

Drums of radioactive waste too. Never mind. You can't stop it.

[jas007]

35 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

But we get encouraged to eat meat that was produced in a factory

I've tried some of that stuff/. At the time, I didn't realize what I was doing.  

 

Theoretically, they should be able to grow food inn a lab.  In reality, why would they bother?  They already have  good source of meat: cows.

[CallumWK]

2 minutes ago, jas007 said:

I've tried some of that stuff/. At the time, I didn't realize what I was doing.  

 

Theoretically, they should be able to grow food inn a lab.  In reality, why would they bother?  They already have  good source of meat: cows.

 

But cows are off limit, isn't it?

 

Like you said in your first post, if we have to believe the media, we can't eat anything anymore.

 

Everything that these days is declared unhealthy by the wokes, I have been eating all my life, and I haven't seen a doctor for an illness in the last 30 years or longer. So why should I worry now?

[jas007]

1 hour ago, CallumWK said:

 

But cows are off limit, isn't it?

 

Like you said in your first post, if we have to believe the media, we can't eat anything anymore.

 

Everything that these days is declared unhealthy by the wokes, I have been eating all my life, and I haven't seen a doctor for an illness in the last 30 years or longer. So why should I worry now?

You shouldn't worry.  I wasn't advocating for anything. just making observations. On the other hand, I try to eat healthy when I can.  

 

I, too, am never really sick.  I think it's genetic. 

[KhaoTakiab]

3 hours ago, Purdey said:

Note that not one single sentence in Forbes says plastic causes cancer or any particular distress.

Are we reading the same paper? My version says:

"..

but dozens of research studies have linked the particles to lung inflammation and a higher risk of lung cancer, metabolic disorders, neurotoxicity, endocrine disruption, weight gain, insulin resistance, and decreased reproductive health.

.."

[jvs]

Living in Thailand we should be more worried about the air we breath,burning season is upon us again soon.

[KhunLA]

1 hour ago, jvs said:

Living in Thailand we should be more worried about the air we breath, burning season is upon us again soon.

 

Soon ... you're joking right.   It's already 100+ & 150+ at Bangkok and North of ...

 

[jvs]

10 hours ago, KhunLA said:

 

Soon ... you're joking right.   It's already 100+ & 150+ at Bangkok and North of ...

 

Yes sure not joking but you and i do not live north of Bangkok ,for now we have clear skies here.

I recently heard a guy complaining about the bad air here during the burning season,while smoking a cigarette !

Hmm.