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Something very big and very nasty is coming. You can feel it in the air now. https://t.co/sh6mzan6hV

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A type of estrogenic substance that doesn't get mentioned often is the fungal toxin zearalenone (ZEN), a mycoestrogen. It's produced by molds that contaminate grains, processed food and meat. A new study detected ZEN or its metabolites in the urine of 94% of pregnant women. 👇 https://t.co/uvpyzCPLQB

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ZEN is an extremely potent estrogenic substance. It's similar enough in structure to the hormone 17β-estradiol that it binds with the body's estrogen receptors. Large doses of ZEN reduce the number and size of offspring in cattle, pigs, mice and rats. At the same time, ZEN has been shown to promote growth in livestock, making them larger and fattening them for slaughter. American farmers routinely dose cattle with a synthetic version of ZEN.

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To study exposure levels during pregnancy, the researchers collected urine samples from 317 women in Rochester, N.Y. They also gathered 271 placenta samples and asked study participants about lifestyle choices, such as their typical diets. https://t.co/ccm5CXQn40

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Women with higher body mass indexes and those who had previously given birth tended to have higher ZEN levels in their urine. Diet also affected exposure. Women with healthier diets, particularly those eating more protein and vegetables, had lower exposure levels. Diets that contained more ultra-processed foods were associated with increased ZEN concentrations.

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"For every 1 percent higher ultra-processed food consumption, there was a higher exposure to mycoestrogen," said lead author Carolyn Kinkade.

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Cell studies suggest that ZEN exposure is more estrogenic than exposure to industrial chemicals like BPA and phthalates. The same research team found associations between ZEN exposure and altered sex hormone levels in pregnant women and umbilical cord blood.

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Six percent of Americans, or nearly 20 million, are gluten intolerant. Three million have celiac disease, which requires strict gluten avoidance, at risk of death. Millions of people consume gluten-free products. But guess what? They got gluten in them--and much worse. 👇 https://t.co/b73Gz2gav5

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As part of a new investigation by non-profit Moms Across America, 46 samples of widely available gluten-free foods were tested for glyphosate, 236 different pesticides, gluten and various different minerals. The products included bread, pasta, carckers, snacks, flour, dessert mixes and chips.

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Among the findings were that all but two of the 46 samples contained detectable levels of glyphosate. Just over 20% of the samples tested higher than 10 parts per billion of the chemical, which is the EU threshold for acceptable levels. The highest level of glyphosate—a massive 2,963 parts per billion—is the highest level of the chemical ever recorded in food by the lab that carried out the testing. The product was Banza Chickpea Pasta. Organic gluten-free products, which should have had the lowest levels of glyphosate, did not.

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The most widespread pesticide detected in the samples was 2,4-D, one of the active ingredients in Agent Orange. King Arthur’s Gluten-Free Flour and Milton’s Sea Salt Crackers had the highest levels of pesticides, at 147 and 75 parts per billion respectively.

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Equally worrying is the fact that many of the products actually contained gluten at levels higher than the FDA’s maximum for gluten-free products. Simple Mills Brownie Mix, Made Good Vanilla Cookers and Simple Mills Almond Flour Crackers all contained significantly higher levels of gluten than the 20 parts per million allowed by the FDA.

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The study is a warning, yet again, that you need to take the provenance of your food seriously. You can't just assume that branded "healthy" options in supermarkets actually are healthy. You can't even assume such products do or don't contain things the makers claim they do or don't contain. Your best best is to find trust local suppliers wherever you can.

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Here's a link to the full article on this report: https://www.infowars.com/posts/healthy-gluten-free-products-laced-with-harmful-substances-including-gluten/

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One of my most treasured possessions is this picture of my grandfather (centre) escorting JFK from his plane at London Gatwick, in June 1963. Five months later, JFK was dead. My grandfather was posted to Libya's El-Adem airbase, with his young family, soon after. https://t.co/uC8GhCu4ce

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Colour versions of this photograph, and other photographs of my grandfather, are kept at the Kennedy Memorial Center, in the US. https://t.co/YawaKEBW4z

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My grandfather was a flying officer when he was handpicked to greet Kennedy. https://t.co/yvxUcntnne

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He served as aide-de-camp to Percy Bernard, the 5th Earl of Bandon. Barnard was Commander, Allied Air Forces Europe. I have a signed photograph from "Louis" to my grandfather and grandmother. I also have a photograph of him and my grandfather in the officers' mess together. https://t.co/51WTPZ0UKl

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TAMPONS ARE LACED WITH HEAVY METALS. A new study shows that tampons are laced with heavy metals including lead, arsenic and cadmium. Every single tampon tested in the study had lead in it. 👇

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The researchers analysed 60 tampons representing 14 different brands from the US, UK and EU. These included name brands and store-brand products. The samples were tested using a process called inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to identify metals present.

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The researchers found lead and cadmium in 100% of samples. Arsenic was detected in 95% of samples. Interestingly, the highest concentrations were for zinc and calcium. UK and EU tampons generally had lower quantities of metals in them than US tampons.

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While organic brands generally had less lead, they had more arsenic.

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It's unclear what the effects of this contamination are at this point, but it's worth pointing out that vaginal tissue is among the most absorbent tissue in the body. It's likely that regular use of tampons increases concentrations of heavy metals like lead, arsenic and cadmium in the body, which is not a good thing.

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It's estimated that the average woman will use 11,000 tampons in her lifetime, amounting to 1,800 days or five full years of intimate exposure to whatever substances are on those tampons.

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Women's sanitary products are massively contaminated, not just with heavy metals but also with endocrine-disruptors, carcinogens and obesogens. https://www.raweggstack.com/p/study-analysis-endocrine-disruptors

STUDY ANALYSIS: Endocrine Disruptors in Women's Menstrual Products With endocrine disruptors being, quite literally, everywhere, it's no surprise they're all over sanitary pads and other menstrual products raweggstack.com

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My recommendation, honestly, is to find an alternative to store-bought sanitary products. The same goes for nappies, which suffer from exactly the same problems. These products are hopelessly contaminated and provide a direct route of exposure into the bloodstream.

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Here's the new study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024004355#f0020

Tampons as a source of exposure to metal(loid)s Between 52–86% of people who menstruate in the United States use tampons—cotton and/or rayon/viscose ‘plugs’—to absorb menstrual blood in the vagina. … sciencedirect.com

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A message to my haters and detractors: you are ugly, physically and mentally. The gods look upon you with scorn and laugh at your pathetic schemes. You cannot stop what is coming. The Paleo-Atlantids are rising from their ancient sleep. This is the beginning. https://t.co/kW1MrDCuJc

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The morale of the story is: stop pretending, stop lying stop trying to coerce the dissident sphere Stop trying to cap the rise in aryan consciousness by talking about asinine topics And... stop being Jewish Oh if you want to avoid being doxxed, just dox yourself first https://t.co/dUQrJwHdjJ

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Today I received a message from a young gentleman who has been subject to scurrilous accusations he is, in fact, me. He sent me this picture and told me to say this: "Thank you, friends, for the expressions of love and support. David Reaboi, you have less than six months." https://t.co/Apgl64jdJC

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You will never be a real A10 Aryan. You are not destined to define eras and change history. You will not be remembered for millennia to come. Your eyes are full of melanin. You are a person with brown eyes twisted by cosmetic surgery into a crude mockery of nature's perfection.

@nypost - New York Post

This cosmetic procedure to change eye color is going viral — but so are the horror stories https://trib.al/UJ7wbYQ

SocialFlow trib.al

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Hand sanitisers often contain triclosan, a powerful endocrine disruptor. But what's even worse about triclosan is that it can increase skin absorption of other endocrine disruptors, like BPA, by as much as 10,000%! https://t.co/RPHnTjbuNF

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One thing that you will never see me do is wash my hands with synthetic chemical soaps. Parabens, phallates and formaldehyde do not belong anywhere near the body. Instead we need to be using natural soaps made from coconut oil or tallow. https://t.co/Xe8Hg32iJL

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10,000 CHEMICALS LEACHING INTO FOOD FROM PLASTIC CONTAINERS. A new study suggests that thousands of chemicals, a significant proportion of which scientists know nothing about, are leaching into foods from plastic containers. 👇

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Significant numbers of these chemicals, like bisphenol A and phthalates, are linked to a variety of health problems, from reproductive issues to diabetes and even heart disease and forms of cancer. Many, however, are totally unknown to science. https://www.raweggstack.com/p/the-plastic-heat-map

The Plastic Heat Map An incredible new resource to understand the harmful effects plastics are having on our bodies raweggstack.com

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Researchers from Norway tested 36 different plastic food-packaging products from Germany. Norway, South Korea, the UK and the US. They extracted all the chemicals from each plastic product using a solvent and then subjected them to a battery of tests to see whether they would activate or interfere with specific receptors in the human body. These included receptors for hormones including estrogen and testosterone and for key compounds that regulate the body’s metabolic rate. The researchers found that 33 of the 36 plastic products contained chemicals that interfere with fat blood-sugar regulation and fat metabolism. Chemicals that block testosterone were found in 14 products, and chemcals that mimic estrogen—so called “xenoestrogens”—were found in 18.

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Researchers also discovered specific patterns of leaching in their study. Plastics made from PVC, PUR and LDPE leached more chemicals into food compared to PET and HDPE plastics. Coloured and printed plastics also tended to leach more chemicals than plain plastics. The type of food stored in a container also influenced the amount of leaching. Fatty, oil and acidic foods were the worst culprits for drawing chemicals out of the packaging.

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See my new article on this study: https://www.infowars.com/posts/nearly-10000-chemicals-leaching-into-food-from-plastic-containers/

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MICROPLASTICS: ARE THEY CAUSING SKIN CANCER AND SKIN ALLERGIES? The first ever study of the effects of microplastics on skin cells has been published, and it suggests a clear link with the skin damage, and the possibility they may be causing skin cancer and allergies. 👇

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A new study in the journal Environmental Pollution suggests that skin exposure to microplastics could have a role to play not only in skin aging, but also in skin cancer, rates of which have increased massively in recent decades. As the researchers behind the study note, this is the first study to look at the effects of microplastics on skin cells in particular. We’ve had studies of microplastics entering the body through the gut and the lungs, but not the skin.

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Although this study wasn’t carried out on living creatures (humans or rodents), we can assume that the findings will hold for us and for other animals. I’m sure in the near future we’ll see studies that look directly at microplastic exposure via the skin, whether under experimental conditions in the lab or in the wild, among creatures that are habitually exposed to microplastics in significant quantities on the surface of their bodies—fish and sea creatures, for example.

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It’s worth noting that microplastics can probably and do migrate into the skin cells via an internal route too. By that I mean, microplastics enter the body through the gut or lungs, pass into the blood and from the blood end up in skin tissue. This will make it more complicated, at least in the wild, to determine the extent to which microplastics enter the body via the skin, as opposed to through the mouth or nose. Experiments will have to be devised to quantify the proportion of microplastic particles that make it through the skin.

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Skin cells in vitro (in cell culture) were exposed to microplastics and it was shown: 1) that microplastics are absorbed into skin cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner (i.e. more get in the longer the time of exposure and the larger the amount of exposure) 2) that exposure increases levels of inflammation within the skin cells and damage the mitochondria, and 3) that exposure causes an increase in cell senescence, a process which is linked to aging of skin cells and also cancer. An in vivo model was then used to investigate the effects of microplastics on skin-cell function. It was shown that microplastics inhibit skin-cell regeneration and aggravate inflammatory reactions in the skin.

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So what does this mean? One thing it might mean is that the explosion of skin cancer in recent decades could be as a result of increased exposure to plastic particles. I’m thinking synthetic clothing, in particular, which is in direct contact with the skin. The more you wear synthetic fibres, the more gets into your skin, the more risk of cancer—especially if, say, you have a diet laced with seed and vegetable oils and spend lots of time in the sun…

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But it could also be, as I say, because of plastic being distributed around the body by the circulatory system and then ending up in the skin, even if you don’t wear synthetic fibres.

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And what about the massive rise in allergic skin conditions? Again, plastic could be a missing piece of that puzzle. If microplastics are interfering with the skin’s normal inflammatory mechanisms, that might explain why more and more people have extremely sensitive skin. Again, I don’t think plastic would be the only explanation in this case. Diet and the use of copious amounts of personal-care products are two other obvious factors I can think of.

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The health of the skin microbiome, which is compromised especially by the use of chemical-laced personal-care products, is another factor to consider. As with your gut, if the bacteria aren’t healthy, you aren’t healthy. Skin bacteria are part of the body’s first line of defence: they prevent the invasion of harmful pathogens and help regulate the skin cells. There are already lots of studies of the interactions between microplastics and bacteria, so it would be interesting to see what effect plastics have on the kinds of bacteria that live on our skin.

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This was a digest of a study analysis I posted on my Stack yesterday. You can also read dozens of other detailed study analyses there, as well as finding essays, my podcast and much more. https://www.raweggstack.com/p/study-analysis-microplastics-and-a7f

STUDY ANALYSIS: Microplastics and Skin Aging This is the first study linking microplastic exposure to skin damage. The implications of this study are considerable raweggstack.com

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WHAT IS RUSSIAN HOUSEHOLD GARDENING? This ancient practice of small-scale farming allows Russians to produce a significant proportion of their own food organically, an example I believe we all should follow to break free from the globalist model of food production. 👇

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Some amazing facts. In 2004, 35 million Russian households, or 66% of the total, were producing more than 50% of Russia's total agricultural output on JUST 3% of the land under cultivation. That makes this practice 38 times more efficient than Russia's industrial agr. system.

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In concrete terms, that meant 92% of all potatoes, 77% of all veg., 87% of all fruit and berries, 53% of all meat, 52% of all milk and 27% of my favourite, EGGS! Figures are from 2004, because - inexplicably - the best study of the system is a 2008 PhD (link at end).

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Now, Russian is an urban nation. 2/3 of the pop lives in towns or cities, yet millions of urbanites travel out into the countryside to tend small plots of land, just like rural dwellers. The roots of this system stretch right back to the earliest days of Russian history.

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It's not an exaggeration to say that Russia avoided a famine during the collapse of the USSR precisely because an alternative local system of food production existed when the industrial system started to collapse.

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Household gardening has many benefits. Besides allowing access to the best quality organic food, it reduces food inflation, increases national food security, provides health benefits from hard work and recreational benefits for families and communities.

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Produce is regularly exchanged among local neighbours, creating happier communities. There is also a deeper, spiritual, aspect which helps foster a sense of rooting in the soil of Mother Russia. This has become the basis of a new spiritual movement known as Anastasia.

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Anastasia combines pagan Slavic and Russian Orthodox beliefs with household gardening to create a national spiritual vocation rooted in cultivation of the land. The movement advocates the creation of self-sufficient rural settlements as the primary economic unit of the nation.

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My belief is that we need to pay close attention to this ancient practice of household gardening. A modern industrial nation can meet its food needs through local small-scale agriculture. We shouldn't believe the globalists and their claims about the "inevitable" future of food.

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The Great Reset plan for a plant-based future is the worst aspects of the present model of agriculture, without the animals. Instead of surrendering control of the food supply to corporations, who don't give a damn about our health or the environment, we need to take it back.

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Russian household gardening, as well as the broader movement for regenerative agriculture, is essential to my vision of The Eggs Benedict Option.

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I've also written about Russian household gardening for American Mind. https://americanmind.org/salvo/digging-for-victory/

Digging for Victory o get ordinary Americans producing their own food on a nationwide scale would require massive individual and political will. americanmind.org

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And the system is alive and well, as this 2016 National Geographic article shows. FIN. https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/05/22/photo-essay-dacha-season-kicks-off-in-the-russian-countryside/

Photo Essay: Dacha Season Kicks Off in the Russian Countryside The "dacha," or country cottage, is a cultural institution in Russia. The tradition began during the Soviet Union when dachas were given as rewards to good work... news.nationalgeographic.org

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And here's the PhD I mentioned. https://www.soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/01aglibrary/010177.sharashkin.pdf

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Here's something else about Ozempic that probably deserves some consideration: its effects on fertility. Being obese is a major disruptor of fertility, so using Ozempic is making fat women more fertile. But there's a big "but" here. 👇

@nypost - New York Post

Plastic surgeons warn ‘Ozempic face’ has taken over Hollywood https://trib.al/OM2j4T7

SocialFlow trib.al

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Animal studies already show serious adverse effects as a result of Ozempic use during pregnancy. This has been known about for some time. This study, for example, shows that, in mice, Ozempic use during pregnancy significantly inhibits fetal growth. https://t.co/uKAOcF82hn

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We don't know what effect this will have on humans, of course, since we don't have any studies, but the animal evidence is reason enough to exercise abundant caution with regard to the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic during pregnancy.

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Did you know that if you administer tongkat ali, a popular aphrodisiac and testosterone booster to mosquitoes, they mate more? Really.👇 https://t.co/cROFHfnNRo

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An Indian study from 2018 showed that male mosquitoes given sugar-water laced with tongkat ali reproduced more than the control group, which was only given sugar-water. https://t.co/OsUIjJjx3l

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It took male mosquitoes given tongkat ali only 25 seconds, rather than 80, to mate when introduced to female mozzies. They also mounted females an average of 23 times instead of 16.

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Of course, it shouldn't really be a surprise to learn that hormones and natural compounds can exert significant similar effects across a wide variety of species. It's not just lobsters and serotonin. It's also ecdysteroids from spinach and quinoa, for example. https://t.co/26YWd5VFY0

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ECDYSTEROIDS. Ecdysteroids, of which turkesterone is an example, have been seriously hyped in recent years for their muscle-building properties. They were called "the Soviet secret". But most supplements are underdosed. Maybe you should eat quinoa instead... 👇

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When we talk about plastic pollution in the seas, the focus tends to be on what we can see on the surface. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as it's been dubbed, is twice the size of Texas. But a new study suggests there's 100 times as much plastic on the seabed as up top. 👇

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Researchers from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, and the University of Toronto estimated that 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution now resides on the seafloor. Previous estimates have focused on microplastics, but this new figure is for larger pieces.

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A key part of fighting plastic pollution is preventing plastic from getting in the sea in the first place, but this new research shows that cleanup efforts must focus on the depths of the ocean as well as its surface. That's likely to prove costly and difficult.

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Here's a link to the new study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967063724000360?via%3Dihub

Plastics in the deep sea – A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir The exponential increase in plastic production coupled with variable global waste management system efficiencies has resulted in large amounts of plas… sciencedirect.com

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AUTISM AND GUT FLORA. Yet another study has linked disturbed gut flora in early life to later onset of autism and ADHD. This one is a large-scale study of over 16,000 children born in Sweden in the late 90s. 👇 https://t.co/PK3BwquSnn

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Over 16,000 Swedish children born 1997–1999 have been followed from birth into their twenties. Of these, 1,197 children, corresponding to 7.3%, have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, communication disorder or intellectual disability. https://t.co/6Jp1qEeDor

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Cord blood and stool samples at age 1 were taken from the participants. The stool samples clearly show that, even at age 1, there are clear differences in the intestinal flora of children who develop autism or ADHD and those who don't. https://t.co/7N836muwLE

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The absence of particular bacteria was associated clearly with autism. "Coprococcus and Akkermansia muciniphila have potential protective effects. These bacteria were correlated with important substances in the stool, such as vitamin B and precursors to neurotransmitters which play vital roles orchestrating signaling in the brain. Overall, we saw deficits in these bacteria in children who later received a developmental neurological diagnosis," explains one of the researchers behind the study.

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A variety of lifestyle factors were also isolated by the researchers through questionnaires and other means. Antiobiotic treatment during a child's first year was clearly linked to later diagnosis of autism. Antibiotics are known to disturb gut flora seriously. https://t.co/x0fVymhU8r

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The researchers also found interesting differences in the cord blood of babies who would go on to be diagnose as autistic. These babies had lower levels of certain important anti-inflammatory fats, and higher levels of endocrine disruptors including PFAS. https://t.co/HCVYEVDnDg

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Here's a link to the new study: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00238-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867424002381%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

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OBESITY SHRINKS YOUR BRAIN. A large-scale study from 2022 shows that obesity in children shrinks the brain's white matter and reduces the thickness of the brain's cortex, which is critical for overall cognitive function. 👇 https://t.co/nsXhfYRI7A

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It was already well established that obesity as an adult is associated with poor brain health, but there were no large-scale studies of the effects of obesity on brain development in children. https://t.co/TjXGBVv5AW

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The researchers behind the 2022 study used brain imaging data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study that included 11,878 children aged 9-10 years from 21 centers across the country. After the excluded children with eating disorders, neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diseases, and traumatic brain injury, the dataset included 5,169 children, of whom 51.9% were female. According to the children’s BMI z- scores—measures of relative weight adjusted for a child’s age, sex and height—the overweight and obesity rates within the study group were 21% and 17.6%, respectively.

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The researchers used various forms of MRI imaging to assess the connectivity between various parts of the brain and also the composition of the brain, including the amount of white matter, which is involved in various brain functions. https://t.co/NGIgtf7Sw5

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The researchers saw structural brain changes in children with higher weight and BMI z-scores. This included significant reductions in the mass of white matter.

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Areas of degradation included the white matter of the corpus callosum, the principal connector between the brain’s two hemispheres, and tracts within the hemispheres that connect the lobes of the brain. https://t.co/7bBot5hTB6

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The researchers also noted a thinning of the outermost layer of the brain, the cortex, which has been associated with impaired executive function. https://t.co/ksEnXD6gtZ

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As we know, the long-term trend for childhood obesity in the US is up, up, up. But what people should appreciate, on the basis of this study, is that it's not just an epidemic of physical impairment: it's an epidemic of cognitive impairment too. https://t.co/ekT6O7aoDw

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As I've said in my essays on children's processed-food consumption (nearly 2/3 of daily calories in the US today), children are being set up to fail for life by their parents and society. Being overweight is not simply a lifestyle choice. It's a handicap with permanent effects.

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BREASTFEEDING AND EXERCISE Ladies: Want to supercharge your breast milk to provide baby with even more benefits and help stave off obesity? Exercise directly before you breastfeed and your milk will be packed with even higher levels of a powerful metabolic hormone. 👇

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Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology collected 240 samples of breast milk from 20 new mothers before and at intervals after two HIIT exercise sessions. They then compared these with samples taken at the same intervals after periods of sedentary behavior.

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The mothers who had just completed an HIIT session had much higher levels of the hormone adiponectin in their milk. Adiponectin is involved in regulating the body’s metabolism and ensures the availability of energy and essential substances for bodily functions. Low levels of adiponectin are linked to insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes.

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The implications of this study are very interesting. As one of the researchers explains, "the period from conception to two years of age is considered the most critical period for possible development of obesity later in life.” So the boost provided by an active mother could play a significant role in ensuring her child is able to maintain a healthy weight through childhood and into adulthood.

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It was already known that the composition of women's breastmilk varied with their body-mass index. Overweight mothers may, quite literally, be transmitting their overweight status to their children via their milk.

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Here's a link to the new study, which you can read for free: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1275508/full#B7

High-intensity exercise increases breast milk adiponectin concentrations: a randomised cross-over study Introduction: Adiponectin plays a role in glucose and fat metabolism and is present in human breast milk. It has been postulated that higher breast milk adiponectin concentrations may prevent rapid weight gain in infancy. Prior research indicates that circulating adiponectin increases acutely after endurance exercise, but no prior research has investigated the effect of exercise on breast milk adiponectin concentrations. The purpose of this randomised, cross-over study was to determine the acute effects of endurance exercise on adiponectin concentrations in human breast milk. Methods: Participants who were exclusively breastfeeding a 6-12 week-old term infant (N = 20) completed three conditions in the lab: 1) Moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT), 2) High-intensity interval training (HIIT), and 3) No activity (REST). At each condition, we collected breastmilk at 07:00 hours (before exercise/rest), 11:00 hours (immediately after exercise/rest), 12:00 hours (1 hour after exercise/rest), and 15:00 (4 hours after exercise/rest) and determined adiponectin concentrations using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. We compared changes in adiponectin concentrations after MICT and HIIT, adjusted for the morning concentration on each test day, with those after REST, using paired t-tests. Results: Adiponectin concentrations increased 1 hour after HIIT, from 4.6 (± 2.2) μg/L in the 07:00 hours sample to 5.6 (± 2.6) μg/L. This change was 0.9 μg/L (95% confidence interval 0.3 to 1.5) greater than the change between these two timepoints in the REST condition (p = .025). There were no other statistically significant changes in adiponectin concentrations. Conclusion: HIIT may increase adiponectin concentrations in breast milk acutely after exercise. Further studies should determine the impact of exercise-induced elevations in breast milk adiponectin concentrations on growth and metabolism in infancy. frontiersin.org

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Household products like detergents contain literally hundeds of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in combination, as this study shows. In a survey of 11,000 household products, 293 chemicals that are disrupt hormone production and function were identified. Use natural altenatives. https://t.co/GJX52X3tEE

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New research has shown that too much exposure to a growth factor called activin A in the womb prevents the proper development of the testes in male fetuses. And what increases activin A production in women? SSRIs. Women are generally told SSRIs are safe during pregnancy. 👇

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The research, published in Frontiers in Endocrinology, is the first to show that increased exposure to activin A leads to some of the worst effects caused by endocrine-disrupting substances.

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The researchers showed that elevated activin A not only damages germ cells (sperm precursors) but also the Leydig cells, which produce testosterone in men. "Unusually, germ cells exposed to high activin A frequently contained more than one nucleus (multinucleated—see image below) and were abnormally localized outside of the testis cords, reducing the number of sperm precursor cells at birth by half," one of the researchers said.

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"We also discovered that several enzymes necessary for steroid production were lower in Leydig cells in these mice, leading to reduced production of the masculinizing factors." "Like the Goldilocks story, too much or too little activin A is detrimental to fetal testis development," the researcher added. "It is important that activin A levels are 'just right' to ensure the correct foundation is built for future reproductive health outcomes."

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Here's one of many studies showing significant elevation of activin A levels in maternal blood, amniotic fluid and fetal cord blood during pregnant if the mother is on antidepressants. 17.7% of women in the US are on antidepressants.

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Here's advice from Johns Hopkins saying it's fine to take SSRIs during pregnancy and, in fact, it may be a risk for women to come off them during or before pregnancy.

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Here's a link to the new study: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2023.1234712/full

Frontiers | Testis exposure to unopposed/elevated activin A in utero affects somatic and germ cells and alters steroid levels mimicking phthalate exposure Correct fetal testis development underpins adult male fertility, and TGFβ superfamily ligands control key aspects of this process. Transcripts encoding one s... frontiersin.org

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If you're feeding your baby with a plastic bottle, stop. Right now. Polypropylene feeding bottles release up to 16 million plastic particles per litre of liquid. This study was from 2020, before newer detection techniques, so the number is likely to be even higher. https://t.co/cg0LHWqjVA

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LIGHT EXPOSURE AND MENTAL HEALTH. The largest ever study of light exposure and mental health, taking in nearly 90,000 participants, has shown that increased exposure to light at night increases a person's risk significantly for a wide range of mental-health issues. 👇

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The study, published in Nature, shows that habitual exposure to light at night is undoubtedly bad for your mental health. This is because it disrupts the body's circadian rhythms, which govern one of the most important and neglected processes for health and well-being: sleep.

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The study's nearly 90,000 participants were all taken from the UK Biobank. They were examined for their exposure to light, sleep, physical activity and mental health. Factors to shiftwork, sleep, urban and rural living and cardio-metabolic health were taken into account.

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In those exposed to high levels of light at night, the risk of depression increased by 30%, while those exposed to high levels of light during the day experienced a 20% decrease in the risk of depression.

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Similar patterns were observed for: self-harm, psychosis, bipolar disorder, generalised anxiety and, interestingly, PTSD.

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So what can you do? Quite simply, increase the amount of bright natural light you get during the day (or find ways to simulate it), and reduce your exposure to bright light at night. Mimic the conditions our ancestors evolved in. It's that simple.

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Here's a link to the study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-023-00135-8

Day and night light exposure are associated with psychiatric disorders: an objective light study in >85,000 people - Nature Mental Health Circadian rhythm disturbance is a common feature of many psychiatric disorders. Light is the primary input to the circadian clock, with daytime light strengthening rhythms and night-time light disrupting them. Therefore, habitual light exposure may represent an environmental risk factor for susceptibility to psychiatric disorders. We performed the largest to date cross-sectional analysis of light, sleep, physical activity, and mental health (n = 86,772 adults; aged 62.4 ± 7.4 years; 57% women). We examined the independent association of day and night-time light exposure with covariate-adjusted risk for psychiatric disorders and self-harm. Greater night-time light exposure was associated with increased risk for major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and self-harm behavior. Independent of night-time light exposure, greater daytime light exposure was associated with reduced risk for major depressive disorder, PTSD, psychosis, and self-harm behavior. These findings were robust to adjustment for sociodemographics, photoperiod, physical activity, sleep quality, and cardiometabolic health. Avoiding light at night and seeking light during the day may be a simple and effective, non-pharmacological means of broadly improving mental health. Burns et al. explored the association between day and night-time light exposure and the risk for psychiatric disorders using a large sample of adults from the UK Biobank dataset. nature.com

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You need to ask yourself: Are you willing to take the ultimate load? https://t.co/WQJWRXT0zE

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TRAIN LEGS FOR BIG ARMS!? Vince Gironda had this one weird trick for boosting your arm development, and it looks like it really does work. 👇

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Gironda claimed that training your legs before your arms could result in a 15% increase in arm size. Leg work stimulates the nervous system more, because of the size of the muscle groups involved, and that boost helps stimulate growth in smaller groups like the arms.

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It's been a longstanding belief in bodybuilding and strength training that maybe the best way to add muscle to the entire frame is to train legs more. That's the rationale behind the famous "squats and milk" routine dating from the 1930s, for example.

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A 2011 study showed that Vince was right. Bent Rønnestad and his Norwegian colleagues showed that the addition of leg exercises to an arm routine not only increased arm development, but also boosted the metabolism and caused natural increases in growth hormone levels and testosterone. Rønnestad and the other researchers compared the effects of training arms with and without prior sets of leg exercises, over a period of eight weeks. The researchers note that: "acute increases in circulating factors [i.e. hormones] have an additive effect on strength training adaptations and that acute elevations in endogenous testosterone (by strength training) potentiates the androgen receptor response to a strength training session." It was decided to put the leg exercises first, then, to see whether the boost in circulating hormones (i.e. testosterone and growth hormone) that would be expected as a result of the leg exercises, would boost growth of the arms. The leg exercises performed were leg presses, knee extensions and knee flexion: three sets of each with a 10-rep-max weight and 90 seconds between each set. The arm exercises were biceps curls, hammer curls and reverse curls. Over the eight weeks, the leg exercises used the same weight, but the weight was increased for the arm exercises.

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The addition of leg exercises before arm exercises significantly increased the release of testosterone and growth hormone, increased strength and built more muscle.

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There are a few things to note here, I think, if we want to put this into practice ourselves. First of all, note that the leg training wasn’t “all out.” Nine sets of leg exercises at 10RM with ample rest; no attempt at progression (i.e. adding extra weight, reducing rest time or adding sets). So if you wanted to incorporate this method in your training, there’s no reason you have to do a full leg workout, or even push yourself hard, to experience significant benefits. Just do a reasonable number of sets with a weight that isn’t too light and don’t push the rest periods. Stimulate, not obliterate, to quote Mr Olympia Lee Haney. I actually think it would be quite possible for you to train legs as normal as part of your routine and simply add some leg presses or squats or maybe even lunges before you train arms. What I’m trying to say is, adding these extra leg sets doesn’t have to eat in to your leg training routine or your recovery from it.

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There’s also no reason to believe that the benefits seen here wouldn’t translate to other muscle groups like the chest or shoulders. These muscle groups are still, like the arms, relatively small. The back, by contrast, is much bigger and if you’re doing heavy compounds for the back, like bent rows or especially deadlifts, the hormonal stimulation is likely to be sufficient on its own without dedicated leg exercises needing to be added in.

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I've been running an in-depth series on Vince Gironda, covering everything from his patented workouts and diets, to all the reasons you could get kicked out of his gym. I'm building the ultimate Gironda resource. https://www.raweggstack.com/p/the-og-if-you-want-big-arms-train

THE OG: If you want big arms, train legs Yes, you read that right raweggstack.com

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Want your child to grow taller? Make sure they drink plenty of milk. A 2018 study that followed a birth cohort of over 700 boys and girls found that each addition 8oz of milk a day a child drank translated to an extra 0.39cm in height. https://t.co/DlzIEmOANF

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Daily reminder that tight polyester underwear, when worn for long enough (only a period of months), is a 100% reliable form of non-hormonal contraception for men. Your balls literally stop producing sperm. Contrary to this study, the effects are probably permanent to an extent. https://t.co/HEWWTz5c1j

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MICROPLASTICS IN YOUR EYEBALLS. Yes, there are microplastics in your eyeballs, and the more you have, the more likely you'll have sight problems.👇

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A new Chinese study reveals that microplastics are to be found in the vitreous humour of the human eye (that's the mass of liquid behind the lens).

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The researchers took tissue samples from 49 patients with four different eye conditions and used Laser Direct Infrared (LD-IR) spectroscopy and Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) to analyse them for plastic.

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They found a total of 1745 plastic particles, most of which were below below 50 μm in size. That's an average of 35 pieces of plastic per sample. They were nylon, polyvinyl chloride and polystyrene pieces mainly.

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As you might expect, the researchers noted that there was a correlation between levels of microplastic in each sample and “key ocular health parameters, particularly intraocular pressure and the presence of aqueous humor opacities.” But how did the plastics get there?

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It may simply be the case that microplastics migrate into the eyes via the bloodstream—the eyes are full of very small blood vessels—and therefore the more microplastics you have in your blood, the more you have in your eyes.

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There's also the possibility that plastics could enter by other routes. That includes from the outer surface of the eye. That could mean plastics in the air that end up in the eye and behind the eyelid or it could mean plastics from contact lenses.

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This study showed that a pair of reusable contact lenses could release almost 91,000 plastic particles in a year of wearing them. That's 91,000 plastic particles in your eyes.

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Contact lenses release toxic endocrine-disrupting and carcinogenic chemicals like PFAS into the eye as well. Levels of PFAS found in contact lenses tested were 50,000 times higher than the highest level deemed safe in drinking water by the EPA.

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CONTACT LENSES AND PFAS. If you wear contact lenses, you might want to think about wearing glasses instead. A new study reveals that most contact lenses contain extremely high levels of PFAS, a harmful "forever chemical" linked to reduced testosterone, obesity & eye diseases. 👇

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Another route may be during pregnancy. This study shows that polystyrene nanoplastics administered to pregnant mice ended up in the eyes of the offspring. The mothers were fed nanoplastics in water at an "environmentally realistic concentration."

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The mouse study showed that the nanoplastics interefered with the proper development and function of the mouse pups' eyes.

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We already knew that microplastics cross the placental barrier from mother to baby and that they are found in the amneotic fluid in which babies float for the duration of their term.

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As far as I can tell, the best strategy is probably to ditch contact lenses and reduce general exposure to plastic. That's all you can do.

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I've written a detailed analysis of the new study on my Stack. The post is free to read. https://www.raweggstack.com/p/study-analysis-microplastics-in-your

STUDY ANALYSIS: Microplastics in Your Eyes It's all so tiresome. But we shouldn't be surprised: they're in your brain too... raweggstack.com

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If you care about your health, one of the worst things you can do is get lots of tattoos. Until 2022, tattoo inks were totally unregulated and treated simply as cosmetic products. Even now, with FDA regulation, their contents are anybody's guess, as this new study shows. 👇 https://t.co/v2qyZefMPN

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Researchers analyzed inks from nine U.S. manufacturers, across six different colors. 90% of samples showed significant differences from their listed ingredients, including differing pigments and unlisted additives. https://t.co/FpZDO2C5Zo

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Over half of the samples contained polyethylene glycol, a compound that's linked to organ damage. Other findings included propylene glycol, a known allergen, an antibiotic used for urinary tract infections, and 2-phenoxyethanol, which poses risks to nursing infants.

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Previous recent studies have shown tattoo inks to be full heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic amines and other toxic compounds. https://t.co/ucW3PNPpEs

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Benzo(a)pyrene, which is usually found in black tattoo ink, is a nasty endocrine disruptor, associated with testicular damage and testosterone reduction. https://t.co/ANZyoshUAk

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There isn't much research into the effects of tattooing on health, but you can bet that these chemicals do not remain localised in the surface of the skin.

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I still think this is probably the hardest video ever made. https://t.co/5jPRig5pQl

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COLOURED LIGHT THERAPY. Of all the aspects of Tucker Carlson's doc. The End of Men, it was the "testicle tanning" (red-light therapy) that came in for the most ridicule. But the truth is that we actually know quite a lot about the +ve effects of monochromatic light therapy. 👇

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The basic idea behind red-light therapy is that particular red frequencies of light stimulate testosterone production when the testicles are exposed to them. The light penetrates the leydig cells and energises the cell machinery, stimulating testosterone production.

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While there aren't many scientific studies of red-light therapy, nor of its benefits for testosterone enhancement, there's a significant literature on the effects of monochromatic light exposure on animals. Sadly, the studies are for the benefit of factory farmers.

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For a long time, factory farmers have been looking for various ways to enhance the growth of their animals. Stuffing them with corn and seed oils is one way. Antibiotics are another.

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Yet another technique is exposure to certain colours of light. This study from 1999, for example, shows that chickens reared under constant blue light had more testosterone levels, while birds reared under constant green light were significantly heavier with more muscle.

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Here's another study showing that green light exposure causes chickens to grow bigger with more muscle mass.

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There are literally dozens of these studies, all of which substantiate the basic thesis behind "testicle tanning": that specific frequencies of light have particular health-giving properties. If light-therapy works for chickens and other animals, why not humans?

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Of course none of this matters when your goal is simply to ridicule, as it was for virtually all of the journalists reporting on The End of Men. But the truth is, as well as the anecdotal evidence, we have every reason to believe that light therapy enhances health.

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What we need is for some proper studies to be done, not of broiler chickens, but of right-wing bodybuilders. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has indicated there will be new research priorities at the NIH if he becomes president, and I'm hoping such studies will be part of them.

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Here's a link to the first of the broiler studies, which will link you to many other studies of the same phenomenon: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10023760/

The effect of monochromatic light on broiler growth and development - PubMed Artificial illumination, including light quality, is crucial in modem broiler management. In the present study, a new, highly efficient, monochromatic light system has been developed for broilers. One hundred and eighty male broiler chicks (Anak) were divided into four light treatment groups (n = 45 … pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Zinc-oxide nanonparticles are being used in a wide array of cosmetics, but especially sunscreens. Although they are a relatively new ingredient, it's already becoming clear that they are likely to be seriously toxic, with endocrine-disrupting properties. https://t.co/PlXXTuDHXr

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"Deluded.. bizarre... dangerous." https://t.co/MxFeFX0qVk

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Simply coming into contact with polyurethane foam transfers carcinogenic and endocrine-disrupting substances to your skin and into your body, as this study in a gym-studio setting shows. And you want to spend all night with your face on one of these things... https://t.co/5yK0Jjab93

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Disposable paper cups are coated in plastic to make them waterproof. When you put hot liquid in them, huge quantities of microplastics are released into the liquid, as well as harmful plasticisers and heavy metals. https://t.co/XvMWg9MtTi

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Remember what Al Gore said at Davos last year. One billion "climate refugees" are coming and our entire political system will have to change as a result. Gore didn't seem displeased by this scenario. And why would he? He may live to see his wildest dreams realised. https://t.co/pAxTwzmYyz

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It's almost as if there's some kind of agenda at work...

@nypost - New York Post

‘Love at first sight’ is real, body language expert reveals — 6 signs to know someone is hot for you https://trib.al/URs2SHD

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PHTHALATES AND PREMATURE BIRTHS. A new study suggests that exposure to phthalates may be responsible for as many as 56,000 premature births in the USA annually, with added lifetime health costs of $8.1 billion for those children. 👇 https://t.co/cHAmk1AfPp

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Researchers from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine analysed phthalate exposure in 5,000 American mothers and compared it to gestational age and weight at birth. Higher phthalate exposure was clearly linked to earlier gestational age and lower weight at birth. https://t.co/FikF1oT1pB

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What's particularly interesting is that they looked at specific kinds of phthalates; in particular metabolites of DEHP and of three compounds that were introduced as "safer" alternatives to DEHP. Guess what? You should know what I'm going to say...

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The "safer" alternatives turned out to be much worse than DEHP. Where the 10% of mothers with the highest levels of DEHP had a 50% increased risk of giving birth before week 37 of pregnancy compared to women with the lowest 10%, the risk for mothers exposed to the highest...

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levels of the "safe" alternatives was DOUBLE that of the mothers with the lowest levels. Once again, it turns out we're making the problem worse, not better, in our efforts to phase out harmful chemicals.

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You can read the study here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00270-X/fulltext

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Stress during pregnancy is a significant cause of premature births and can also significantly skew the sex ratio towards female births. This is one of the reasons why the widespread adoption of plant-based diets is bad news. I discuss this in The Eggs Benedict Option. 👇

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The stress from the 9/11 attacks caused a nationwide increase in the deaths of male fetuses relative to female, where the ratio of births kept falling three months after the attacks. https://t.co/SLJmsefZdt

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A study from 2000 looked at six thousand pregnant women and found that a considerably smaller number of boys were born to vegetarian mothers. Vegetarian women were 23% less likely to have male babies than mothers on an omnivorous diet. https://t.co/Sk4ytNFjzK

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Why? This is almost certainly due to the added stress that not eating animal products causes the mother's body (i.e. deficiencies of key nutrients, vits and mins). This threatens the viability of the fetus and can cause premature births (see above) or even spontaneous abortion.

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But why do boys suffer most? This isn't clear, but the general evidence, including the effects of 9/11 as mentioned above, suggests that male fetuses are more susceptible to maternal stress during pregnancy. https://t.co/1Fps27UgF9

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In evolutionary terms, maternal stress would likely have been caused by scarcity and conflict. Perhaps the female body evolved mechanisms to avoid bringing more men into the world under such circumstances? Or it could simply be that having a male child is more metabolically expensive than having a female child.

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Aaaand now he's on the Ukrainian "kill list." https://t.co/HD5V9TxsSV

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Remember when it was revealed that waste food, including the plastic wrapping, was being ground up and added to pig feed? This is why you need to take care to source your food, especially animal products, carefully. You are what what you eat eats. https://t.co/FCXF9VbBYm

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Anti-depressants are known endocrine disruptors in crustaceans, inducing sex changes in certain species at background levels in surface waters. We're not so different from crustaceans. Anti-depressants may well be endocrine disruptors in humans as well. https://t.co/ify9DpnD6i

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Well well well https://t.co/ufSjoU4NA3

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There hasn't been a great deal of research into the endocrine-disrupting effects of anti-depressants on humans, but there has been some and it's not good. https://t.co/1q3ltHmkd3

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Triclosan, which is found in a wide variety of health products including hand sanitisers, can increase the absorption of BPA through your skin 100x. That means if you sanitise your hands and then touch thermal paper like a receipt, you'll get a massive dose of estrogenics. https://t.co/eFhtHDLCh2

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Triclosan is a vicious endocrine disruptor that the FDA banned from soaps, but it's still found in hand sanitisers, toothpastes and mouthwashes (all products you don't need). There's even a suggestion that the explosion in cases of precocious puberty during the pandemic may have had something to do with children's near-constant use of hand-sanitisers containing triclosan. In Italy, cases of precocious puberty tripled during the pandemic. What's particularly bad about it is that it can increase the body's absorption of other endocrine disruptors, such as BPA from thermal paper (i.e. receipts, paper money), by as much as 10,000% according to a number of studies.

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Triclosan is a vicious endocrine disruptor that the FDA banned from soaps, but it's still found in hand sanitisers, toothpastes and mouthwashes (all products you don't need). There's even a suggestion that the explosion in cases of precocious puberty during the pandemic may have had something to do with children's near-constant use of hand-sanitisers containing triclosan. In Italy, cases of precocious puberty tripled during the pandemic. What's particularly bad about it is that it can increase the body's absorption of other endocrine disruptors, such as BPA from thermal paper (i.e. receipts, paper money), by as much as 10,000% according to a number of studies.

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It's not the vegetable glycerin you should be worried about in DUDE WIPES. It's the sodium benzoate, which is a vicious endocrine disruptor, causing structural damage to the testes of male rats. Using MAN WIPES sends sodium benzoate straight into your bloodstream. https://t.co/I8ycOwVfg2

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DUDE! Dude wipes aha! Yes I'm such a Bro! love wiping my ass with with vegetable glycerin - BRooooooooooo https://t.co/rfwrjGiOXV

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Monosodium glutamate, a ubiquitous flavour-enhancer in processed food, damages the testes and prostate gland, reducing testosterone and reproductive function in men. https://t.co/cOqhEZ5k8V

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Glyphosate is a trans-generational obesogen. If you expose a mother rat to glyphosate, but not her offspring, the offspring three or four generations down the line will be fatter. "Generational toxicity" is a factor that is never considered in safety assessments for chemicals. https://t.co/lrdcHaGRsH

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I regret to inform you that microplastics are turning the frickin' oysters gay. https://t.co/WpWiM2duop

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Having blood drawn is an extremely effective way to get harmful chemicals out of your body, and that would almost certainly include microplastics in your blood (though not necessarily microplastics in your organs). 👇 https://t.co/iELXtNLWUr

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The benefits of blood donation are shown by this study of Australian firefighters. Firefighters face chronic high-level exposure to chemicals like PFAS in fire retardants. https://t.co/0addZjbNBB

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285 firefighters gave blood and plasma donations. Both forms of donation reduced PFAS concentrations in the blood, with plasma donations reducing them the most, by nearly 3x the amount of blood donation. https://t.co/OP8tMDBPkJ

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It's hypothesised that one of the reasons women seem on average to have lower levels of PFAS in their blood than men is because they menstruate. Women may have around 25% lower levels of PFAS in their blood than men. https://t.co/NbVCHEbbxU

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It should be noted, though, that many harmful chemicals accumulate at much higher level in fat and other tissues, rather than the blood and urine. Sweating and calorie restriction appear to be the best way to mobilise and eliminate them. https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1654518300116656128?s=20

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This interesting small study reveals that sweating is a major route out of the body for some of these harmful compounds, include compounds that are not in the blood but have accumulated in the tissues, especially the fat. https://t.co/SwmI6Z0qZK

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The obesogen and endocrine-disruptor BPA is one such compound. https://t.co/ZZqpwqeLaT

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If you were determined to rid your body of harmful chemicals like PFAS and phthalates, you could incorporate 1) blood donation, 2) sweating and 3) calorie restriction (fasting or a reduced calorie diet) in a single programme.

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Adding exercise to the mix will also help to mitigate the effects of those chemicals that remain in your body, as this thread shows. https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1725182134376128942?s=20

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One of the questions I get asked most often is, "How do I avoid the harmful effects of endocrine disruptors (ECs)?" The best way is to reduce your exposure to ECs. But there are other things you can do to reduce the effects of ECs that are in your body. Like exercise.👇 https://t.co/gBGaIf9eHT

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Once again we need science to tell us what we should have known anyway: that breast is best. Children who are breastfed for longer have significantly lower body fat nine years later. Children weaned and introduced to food, especially processed food earlier, grew up fatter. https://t.co/8XGGIr4P6l

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Want a testosterone boost for your afternoon workout? (More T = more muscle.) Well, maybe you should wake up and sprint, as this study shows. A morning sprint session increased T levels in the afternoon by 11.6% for young elite soccer players. 👇 https://t.co/CGBIb2Eggz

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Because the subjects were soccer players, their performance in the afternoon was notably impaired, but sprinting in the morning before an afternoon upper-body workout (chest, arms, shoulders, back) won't negatively affect the performance of the target muscles.

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Alternatively, do some compound leg exercises before you work do your upper-body work, even if it's much lighter compared to your working leg sets.

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This is an idea Vince Gironda advanced in his "Balanced Arms" pamphlet. He said you could gain 15% more size in your arms by performing leg work before your arm training. https://t.co/6Y7TIXAu1B

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The association between leg training and general mass gain is a longstanding one. The old-school "squats and milk routine", where you do loads of squats and drink loads of milk, was proven to add mass across the entire body and not just to the legs.

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And guess what? Gironda was right. A 2011 study out of Norway showed that performing leg exercises before an arm workout acutely increased testosterone and led to greater muscle and strength growth. https://t.co/USoChtiNDA