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Microplastics found in every human testicle
The Guardian ^
Posted on 05/21/2024 5:33:17 AM PDT by Paul46360
Microplastics found in every human testicle in study.
Scientists say discovery may be linked to decades-long decline in sperm counts in men around the world.
Microplastics have been found in human testicles, with researchers saying the discovery might be linked to declining sperm counts in men.
The scientists tested 23 human testes, as well as 47 testes from pet dogs. They found microplastic pollution in every sample.
The human testicles had been preserved and so their sperm count could not be measured. However, the sperm count in the dogs’ testes could be assessed and was lower in samples with higher contamination with PVC. The study demonstrates a correlation but further research is needed to prove microplastics cause sperm counts to fall.
Sperm counts in men have been falling for decades, with chemical pollution such as pesticides implicated by many studies. 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.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War
KEYWORDS: human; microplastics; plastic; sperm; testicles
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:33:17 AM PDT
by
Paul46360
To: Paul46360
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:36:56 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: Paul46360
Himmler had something similar
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:37:45 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Paul46360
They didn’t look in mine.......................
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:41:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: HombreSecreto
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:41:55 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
To: HombreSecreto
“one word” lol
Great future, indeed. /s
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:41:59 AM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
To: Red Badger
My first thought as well. I think they’d find gold :)
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:44:55 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
To: Paul46360
And the romans killed themselves with lead plates
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:45:21 AM PDT
by
Blueflag
(To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
To: billorites
But poor old Goebbels has ...
To: Paul46360
So how come all those illegals drinking gallons of bottled water seem to proliferate like hamsters?
To: Paul46360
There’s also 2 surgical stainless steel staples in mine.
To: Paul46360
Too much brass here... no room for plastics, micro or otherwise.
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:51:31 AM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: Paul46360
and radiation from all the Nuclear blasts is also in us so what
To: Paul46360
“Follow the bouncing ball!”
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posted on
05/21/2024 5:57:28 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
To: billorites; JSM_Liberty
Hitler only had it half as bad.
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posted on
05/21/2024 6:01:15 AM PDT
by
pa_dweller
(Let's all go out for ice cream.)
To: Paul46360
Hmmm.... one wonders what a microplastic is.
The finders should be banished from public positions and relegated to garbage land field plastic bag counting
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posted on
05/21/2024 6:07:45 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
To: HombreSecreto
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posted on
05/21/2024 6:10:53 AM PDT
by
laplata
(They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
To: Paul46360
Nice to know they are now searching every human testicle.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/21/2024 6:15:02 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: FlingWingFlyer
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posted on
05/21/2024 6:15:31 AM PDT
by
Paul46360
(Nuk'em all--- let GOD sort them out!)
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