ELI5, Why aren’t people who grew up in the leaded gasoline and lead paint era sick and dying by now ?

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Considering lots of people grew up with so much lead exposure in the past and that lead negatively affects every organ in the human body. As well as, the fact that lots of people were being exposed since they were babies, I don’t get how there are plenty of people 80+ years old these days in decent health?

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Lead poisoning is mostly affecting neural connections.

Means becoming stupid or having neural disease. Even worse, the younger you are when exposed the worse is the effect on the brain.

But that’s it. These diseases are really bad but not lethal. It’s just, thee are a lot of elder people that are way dumber than they should.

It’s awful btw, looking at grandpa being completely mentally gone is not nice. Still he’ll live very long, and will keep say stupid things for very long.

Your questions makes sense more with asbestos and chrome. Those don’t let you age, they are big killers.

In general, we are living a “cancer pandemic” and its not yet gone. It’s gonna take a lot of time before we start to see improvements after removing so many harmful products. We are still in the middle of the cancer wave. Probably, people born after 2000 will have less cancer, maybe. I am part of the doomed generation, grown up soaked in chemicals and it’s not a nice living being aware of it.

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