When I hear talking about forever chemicals, they are usually described as “chemicals are not affected by naturally occurring reactions, and that accumulate in the bodies of living beings”. By accumulating, they cause all sorts of health issues.
What I don’t understand is how they cause these health issues. If these chemicals do not participate in regular reactions, how do they cause issues?
I am not claiming that the research in the subject is wrong, I am missing the link between “these things don’t react with anything” and “these things still cause all sorts of health problems”.
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Not at all a doctor, but as I understand it:
Your body is a serious of complex pumps and tubes, built to move volumes of organic compounds to places they need to be.
If you put things in the tube that arent supposed to be there, you are going to be using some of that tube’s “bandwidth” to move something around that really isn’t supposed to be there.
Thats before you even consider how that something will react to the recipients waiting at the outflows from the tubes.
Say your heart is supposed to be pumping 100 abstract units of blood to your brain. As other stuff starts to build in your vascular system, the tube still moves 100 total abstract units, but now its 99 blood and 1 junk. This is fine, if the brain can make do, but over time as this junk accumulates, the throughput continues to drop, putting stress on the brain until finally it starts to break down due to lack of blood units per heart beat.
Basically your body fills up with junk that blocks it from doing what its supposed to.
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