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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So your body is broadly controlled by hormones. The hormone is a specific shape like a key, and it falls into specific shaped receivers in your body. When it does that, the signal is acted on.
Plastics as they break down can be these same shapes so they accidentally fit into the receiver slots for the hormones. Making your body do things it shouldn’t.
This is one serious way they effect us. An example is a plastic called BPA which just so happens to be the same shape as estrogen, so children of either gender drinking from cups made of it might grow boobs, or go into puberty at a young age
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