So, just to be clear: there are seriously poisonous chemicals known to severely alter human biology everywhere in our environment, and now seemingly into the bodies of infants.
Just to be clear: environmentalists more or less completely refuse to talk about this, and instead go on and on for all of infinity talking about human-released carbon dioxide changing the weather, a stupid hoax that has been thoroughly disproved.
Toxic PFAS chemicals were detected in every umbilical cord blood sample across 40 studies conducted over the last five years, a new review of scientific literature from around the world has found.
The studies collectively examined nearly 30,000 samples, and many linked fetal PFAS exposure to health complications in unborn babies, young children and later in life. The studies’ findings are “disturbing”, said Uloma Uche, an environmental health science fellow with the Environmental Working Group, which analyzed the peer-reviewed studies’ data.
“Even before you’ve come into the world, you’re already exposed to PFAS,” she said.
PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of about 12,000 chemicals commonly used to make products resist water, stains and heat. They are called “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down, and accumulate in human bodies and the environment.
The federal government estimates that they are found in 98% of Americans’ blood. The chemicals are linked to birth defects, cancer, kidney disease, liver problems and other health issues, and the EPA recently found effectively no level of exposure to some kinds of PFAS in water is safe.
Humans are exposed to the ubiquitous chemicals via multiple routes. PFAS are estimated to be contaminating drinking water for over 200 million people in the US, and have been found at alarming levels in meat, fish, dairy, crops and processed foods. They are also in a range of everyday consumer products, like nonstick cookware, food packaging, waterproof clothing, stainguards like Scotchgard and some dental floss.
PFAS in products can be absorbed through the skin, swallowed or breathed in as they break off from products and move through the air.
“The presence of these chemicals is also a threat to pregnant people, serving as first contacts with PFAS before they can pass from the uterus to the developing fetus by way of the umbilical cord,” Uche said.
Scientists focused on umbilical cord blood because the cord is the lifeline between mother and baby. The findings are especially troubling because fetuses are “more vulnerable to these exposures because their developing bodies don’t have the mechanisms to deal with the chemicals”, Uche added.
The studies linked fetal exposure to higher total cholesterol and triglycerides in babies, and changes in their bodies’ bile acids, which can lead to a higher risk of cardiovascular problems later in life.
Some studies also associated cord blood exposure with disruptions to thyroid glands and microbial cells in the colon.
PFAS can remain in the body for years or even decades, and some studies link fetal exposure to effects throughout childhood and adulthood, including on cognitive function, reproductive function, changes in weight, eczema and altered glucose balance.
The studies identified about 35 different kinds of PFAS compounds, including some newer chemicals that industry and some regulators claim do not accumulate in the body. However, science is limited in the number of PFAS compounds it can detect in blood, so it is highly likely that many more of the chemicals passed on to fetuses.
This is always the same situation: the media/government goes absolutely nuts over some totally manufactured threat, while also ignoring a real threat.
Right now, they are telling us that Russia and China are military threats to America, while also saying that there is zero threat of millions of totally undocumented people crossing over our border every year.
They are telling us that these trillions we spent on “coronavirus relief” were necessary, what amounts to trillions in annual losses from the Ukraine war and more specifically the anti-Russia sanctions mean nothing, but it’s very important that we hire 87,000 new IRS agents with guns and start auditing the middle class to get more money for the government.
They told us that “coronavirus” was a threat, while refusing to mention deaths from opioids or obesity.
During the 2015 migrant crisis, they were telling us that Bashir al-Assad’s government in Syria was a threat, while millions of fighting age men “from Syria” marching into Europe were “enriching our culture.”
There are an endless number of examples of this. It’s part of the basic fabric of Western society. Totally manufactured hoaxes are blown up by the media in the extreme, while real world problems that affect everyone’s life that we can see right in front of us do not matter, are racist white supremacy conspiracy theories, and so on.
Of course, someone might think “oh, well, Snake, you found an article in The Guardian mentioning PFAS, so the media is not completely ignoring it.” But they basically are completely ignoring it. We go and find these articles, and frankly they’re usually in British media. At some point, I will do a study comparing the number of times PFAS are mentioned in comparison to how many times “climate change” is mentioned by the mainstream media. “Climate change” is mentioned thousands of times more often.
We might not have the resources to do this, but it would also be interesting to do a study on the amount of dollars spent (and lost) on programs combating climate change to dollars spent on programs combatting PFAS, plastics, and other cancer-causing petrochemical endocrine disruptors. On the whole, we have basically zero dollars spent on the chemicals, while there are trillions in spending and losses on the global warming hoax.