Last year my wife broke out in hives, full body chronic urticaria. Dermatologist could do nothing to help, finally went to urgent care. They gave her Histamine 1 & 2 blockers (Allegra & Pepcid). That kept the outbreak under control but it would reoccur immediately if we stopped on the pills. Found and tested with an allergist who prescribed the same regimen, twice a day. Nothing could cure this horrible skin reaction.
7 months later I read an article from the Epoch Times website regarding microplastics. The short story is I had been getting my wife cappuccino every morning from a local coffee house. My thought was the heated coffee cup which is paper might contain a inner plastic coating that is activated when heated with water at high temp. Brought my own metal container for coffee for the next 3 weeks and was able to reduce the Allegra/famotidine doses to once a day. The hives were easing off until finally after 6 weeks we were able to totally stop the H1H2 blockers. It's been over 9 months now and chronic urticaria has disappeared. Hope this is helpful to others.
Gee, I don’t know, been reading about this for the past year, maybe two, and I thinking micro-polymers may be the only thing holding me together: once-a-week I pop into the sauna, crank the heat up as high as possible/tolerable, and bake a bit - I’m thinking all those micro-polymers melt a little, perhaps repolymerize a bit forming a nano-network type of mesh firming&toning all those sagging bits (cheaper than going under the knife, eh?), some find their ways to my knees where they melt, flow/deform a bit, provide a thin barrier between the bare ends of my femur&tibia and, presto-chang-o I’m back running marathons.
Ya’know, even evil tobacco has benefits in some cases.
Yes, I’m being sarcastic; I grow much of my food, live simple, water comes from my own private well. 🙄
In the 70s, I was a boy. I remember virtually all grocery and retail store bags of that time as made of brown paper.
In the 80s, one of my early jobs was as a courtesy clerk, bagging groceries. "Paper or plastic?" was my question to each customer, the latter added as a then-modern alternative. Save the trees, save the environment. We were making progress, you see.
The East Palestine PA train wreck carrying vinyl chloride (used to make plastics) - The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday the controlled chemical explosion following the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment more than a year ago was unnecessary. Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy also said Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and incident commanders on the scene were not given complete information before executing the explosion near the Ohio-Pennsylvania they said was needed to prevent an uncontrolled explosion.
“This town very well may have been poisoned to facilitate the rapid movement of freight, or at the very least, it was poisoned for reasons that we can't identify. That should really concern every single person on this committee,” Vance said during his questioning of Homendy at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
Good to know. I have a read a bit on microplastics and its effect on the environment. When I was growing up and we no longer had a milk cow , we would get milk from a local dairy in a glass jug. We would wash it out and return it to the dairy in exchange for a new gallon of milk. I have not seen and glass containers around for years. I will have to look around.
Plastic has been so easy to get and use. I need to be more diligent in using glass containers instead of the cheap plastic containers you get in the grocery stores with which to store leftovers in the fridge.
I saw an advertisement a few days ago that had glass containers with lids for food storage
Thank you for this coverage. Was aware, but have been dodging it as the problem seemed hopeless. Can see ferreting about for glass would be a start.
ET had a recent article advising that boiling hard tap water removes up to 90% of microplastics. Ons wonders whether starting by boiling vegetables might also help.
Lotsa things to reflect about. Refrig storage possibilities. What to container plant in.
Looking forward to your Fallout program tomorrow. Safe travels.
Well isn't that something. I hadn't thought of micro plastics in the much broader view. This was an eye opener, especially when thinking about fish and polluted waters. Thank you again!
I find this article very interesting and I appreciate the ideas for limiting the influence of plastics in our lives. My wife is the one of us who works out about everyday and is very watchful of what we eat. I am easy and eat what she puts in front of me. The benefit is that I don’t find a comparable meal at a restaurant compared with what she makes.
I am a water well driller of 34 years and I have wondered since the early 90’s about the effects of all of our water being transmitted through pvc. I started noticing all of the names that the local bank put up on the drive through window of people with cancer. Water is the universal solvent. It will leach anything over time. I can’t verify and almost impossible to get totally away from the pvc transmission lines.
I use Parverio, Inc. for testing my water for microplastics. I was using ZeroWater filter but found out at Score 3 (toss at Score 6) that the filter started releasing x2 the microplastics over tap water. ZeroWater Filter also didn’t reduce microplastics by more than 20%. I am now testing ProOne G2 filter. No surprise we have so much disease! Some are injecting Borax to detox microplastics but other articles say Borax is toxic. Does Zeolite bind to microplastics?
Older generations probably recall (when) ALUMINUM was the boogeyman - particularly aluminum cooking utensils - said to be deadly for humans - because of heat transfer of aluminum particles into cooked food stuffs and into human blood streams.
While 'studies' of nano-particles of plastic in human bloodstreams may well have detrimental health effects (heart wise), As one who has had (5) stints added to my heart - the culprit 'clogging' blood vessels to my heart was CALCIUM ( possibly from drinking too much HARD water)?
BTW, there are only (2) forms of ALL plastics - Thermoform and Thermoset.
All types of thermoform plastics can be softened and re-formed, while thermoset (VERY few types -such as Bakelite) cannot. Extreme high heat can burn Bakelite and reduce it to ashes, but it will not soften or melt like thermo plastic compounds.
Mother nature - herself- has a gazillion ways to snuff out ALL forms of animal life on earth - in MANY instances transmitted from one life form to another.
In my job I put tons of pvc boards on homes and buildings. When pvc trim boards were first used I had read an article the chemicals used were mixed in huge hoppers. At the end of the day they would send workers into the hoppers to clean them. Within days or weeks the workers cleaning the hoppers began seeing there feet and hands corroding back to the point they were losing there feet and hands. I know not long after that they reformulated the mix and I’m sure better protective safety equipment began to be used, but I know when my time comes to an end it will be a lung type issue. Years back I demoed a Victorian house in West Roxbury Ma. There was a Grace product called vermiculite that was sprayed into these huge soffits for insulation. This stuff went everywhere when we demoed the house. Come to find out much of this product was laced with asbestos. As we see everywhere today, what you don’t know CAN hurt you!!!!
Last year my wife broke out in hives, full body chronic urticaria. Dermatologist could do nothing to help, finally went to urgent care. They gave her Histamine 1 & 2 blockers (Allegra & Pepcid). That kept the outbreak under control but it would reoccur immediately if we stopped on the pills. Found and tested with an allergist who prescribed the same regimen, twice a day. Nothing could cure this horrible skin reaction.
7 months later I read an article from the Epoch Times website regarding microplastics. The short story is I had been getting my wife cappuccino every morning from a local coffee house. My thought was the heated coffee cup which is paper might contain a inner plastic coating that is activated when heated with water at high temp. Brought my own metal container for coffee for the next 3 weeks and was able to reduce the Allegra/famotidine doses to once a day. The hives were easing off until finally after 6 weeks we were able to totally stop the H1H2 blockers. It's been over 9 months now and chronic urticaria has disappeared. Hope this is helpful to others.
Vitamin D substantially reduces microplastic damage
https://vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page_id=10858
https://hlahore.substack.com = Science-based vitamin D
Gee, I don’t know, been reading about this for the past year, maybe two, and I thinking micro-polymers may be the only thing holding me together: once-a-week I pop into the sauna, crank the heat up as high as possible/tolerable, and bake a bit - I’m thinking all those micro-polymers melt a little, perhaps repolymerize a bit forming a nano-network type of mesh firming&toning all those sagging bits (cheaper than going under the knife, eh?), some find their ways to my knees where they melt, flow/deform a bit, provide a thin barrier between the bare ends of my femur&tibia and, presto-chang-o I’m back running marathons.
Ya’know, even evil tobacco has benefits in some cases.
Yes, I’m being sarcastic; I grow much of my food, live simple, water comes from my own private well. 🙄
In the 70s, I was a boy. I remember virtually all grocery and retail store bags of that time as made of brown paper.
In the 80s, one of my early jobs was as a courtesy clerk, bagging groceries. "Paper or plastic?" was my question to each customer, the latter added as a then-modern alternative. Save the trees, save the environment. We were making progress, you see.
Too bad the FDA isn't doing their job.
"There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?"
The Graduate, 1967
The East Palestine PA train wreck carrying vinyl chloride (used to make plastics) - The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday the controlled chemical explosion following the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment more than a year ago was unnecessary. Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy also said Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and incident commanders on the scene were not given complete information before executing the explosion near the Ohio-Pennsylvania they said was needed to prevent an uncontrolled explosion.
“This town very well may have been poisoned to facilitate the rapid movement of freight, or at the very least, it was poisoned for reasons that we can't identify. That should really concern every single person on this committee,” Vance said during his questioning of Homendy at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/ohio/article_36da9774-dbf3-11ee-9b52-0b89f438bf80.html?a&seyid=122898
Good to know. I have a read a bit on microplastics and its effect on the environment. When I was growing up and we no longer had a milk cow , we would get milk from a local dairy in a glass jug. We would wash it out and return it to the dairy in exchange for a new gallon of milk. I have not seen and glass containers around for years. I will have to look around.
Plastic has been so easy to get and use. I need to be more diligent in using glass containers instead of the cheap plastic containers you get in the grocery stores with which to store leftovers in the fridge.
I saw an advertisement a few days ago that had glass containers with lids for food storage
Thank you for this coverage. Was aware, but have been dodging it as the problem seemed hopeless. Can see ferreting about for glass would be a start.
ET had a recent article advising that boiling hard tap water removes up to 90% of microplastics. Ons wonders whether starting by boiling vegetables might also help.
Lotsa things to reflect about. Refrig storage possibilities. What to container plant in.
Looking forward to your Fallout program tomorrow. Safe travels.
Bestest always ♡♡♡
It’s getting harder and harder to find products in glass containers because they keep switching to plastic. But I keep trying.
Well isn't that something. I hadn't thought of micro plastics in the much broader view. This was an eye opener, especially when thinking about fish and polluted waters. Thank you again!
I find this article very interesting and I appreciate the ideas for limiting the influence of plastics in our lives. My wife is the one of us who works out about everyday and is very watchful of what we eat. I am easy and eat what she puts in front of me. The benefit is that I don’t find a comparable meal at a restaurant compared with what she makes.
I am a water well driller of 34 years and I have wondered since the early 90’s about the effects of all of our water being transmitted through pvc. I started noticing all of the names that the local bank put up on the drive through window of people with cancer. Water is the universal solvent. It will leach anything over time. I can’t verify and almost impossible to get totally away from the pvc transmission lines.
What are your thoughts?
I use Parverio, Inc. for testing my water for microplastics. I was using ZeroWater filter but found out at Score 3 (toss at Score 6) that the filter started releasing x2 the microplastics over tap water. ZeroWater Filter also didn’t reduce microplastics by more than 20%. I am now testing ProOne G2 filter. No surprise we have so much disease! Some are injecting Borax to detox microplastics but other articles say Borax is toxic. Does Zeolite bind to microplastics?
Microplastics now causing problems in most life forms - many studies
https://vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page_id=10858
Vitamin D substantially reduces the DAMAGE
Older generations probably recall (when) ALUMINUM was the boogeyman - particularly aluminum cooking utensils - said to be deadly for humans - because of heat transfer of aluminum particles into cooked food stuffs and into human blood streams.
While 'studies' of nano-particles of plastic in human bloodstreams may well have detrimental health effects (heart wise), As one who has had (5) stints added to my heart - the culprit 'clogging' blood vessels to my heart was CALCIUM ( possibly from drinking too much HARD water)?
BTW, there are only (2) forms of ALL plastics - Thermoform and Thermoset.
All types of thermoform plastics can be softened and re-formed, while thermoset (VERY few types -such as Bakelite) cannot. Extreme high heat can burn Bakelite and reduce it to ashes, but it will not soften or melt like thermo plastic compounds.
Mother nature - herself- has a gazillion ways to snuff out ALL forms of animal life on earth - in MANY instances transmitted from one life form to another.
Risk-free (human) life is not gonna happen.
In my job I put tons of pvc boards on homes and buildings. When pvc trim boards were first used I had read an article the chemicals used were mixed in huge hoppers. At the end of the day they would send workers into the hoppers to clean them. Within days or weeks the workers cleaning the hoppers began seeing there feet and hands corroding back to the point they were losing there feet and hands. I know not long after that they reformulated the mix and I’m sure better protective safety equipment began to be used, but I know when my time comes to an end it will be a lung type issue. Years back I demoed a Victorian house in West Roxbury Ma. There was a Grace product called vermiculite that was sprayed into these huge soffits for insulation. This stuff went everywhere when we demoed the house. Come to find out much of this product was laced with asbestos. As we see everywhere today, what you don’t know CAN hurt you!!!!