Plastic is Polluting Your Malleable Mind

Petroleum-based plastics permeate our lives and poison us. We see photos of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and hear reports of microplastics contaminating the air, water, and soil of even the<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013935121015334" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> most remote areas</a>. These chemicals<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412021005286?via%3Dihub=" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> disrupt our endocrine systems</a>, contributing to diabetes, obesity, and reproductive problems. But it’s not just our bodies. Plastics are even warping our behaviors. The word plastic means “capable of being molded.” But now our very brains are being molded by our exposure to plastics.<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/7/3585" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> Dozens of studies</a> link higher body levels of chemicals from plastics with a higher likelihood of<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8367074/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> developing ADHD</a> and autism. Administering these same chemicals to<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37903655/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> rodents produc</a>es the same kinds of disturbed human behaviors. In particular, two classes of chemicals added to plastics — phthalates and bisphenols — harm developing brains. <a href="https://medium.com/wise-well/plastic-is-polluting-your-malleable-mind-d7e65ccb4323">Read More</a>