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086 Microplastics - Are You Becoming Plastic

2025/2/20
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Anthony William: 我在这期播客中讨论的不是塑料污染本身,而是塑料如何影响你的身体健康。塑料会进入你的血液和器官,这会造成怎样的影响?有多严重?我会详细解释塑料对人体的危害,以及如何应对。请注意,不要因为过度担心塑料而忽略其他风险。 塑料无处不在,从日常用品到药物和衣物,几乎所有东西都含有塑料。尤其是在太平洋沿岸,大量的塑料垃圾被倾倒入海,形成了一个比德克萨斯州还大的垃圾带,这将会对环境和人类健康造成灾难性的后果。 农业中使用的塑料薄膜燃烧后会释放塑料微粒到空气中,人们会吸入这些微粒。飞机喷洒的化学物质中也含有塑料。这些都是比我们日常接触的塑料容器更严重的塑料污染源。 塑料本身并非最大的问题,塑料中含有的其他化学物质,如杀菌剂和重金属才是真正的问题。我们日常接触的塑料容器不会对我们造成很大的危害,真正的问题是环境中的塑料,它们会通过空气和水进入我们的体内。 人们焚烧垃圾也会释放塑料微粒到空气中和水中。即使是在餐厅或咖啡店,你喝的饮料中也可能含有塑料。汽车内饰中的塑料也会释放有害物质,人们会吸入这些物质。防晒霜也会吸收塑料,人们会通过皮肤接触吸收这些塑料。 塑料会进入肝脏、大脑和其他器官,并可能损害免疫系统,但需要大量的塑料才能造成这种损害。相比于金属容器,塑料容器更容易从体内排出。使用铜制容器代替塑料容器并非健康的选择,因为铜也会对人体造成危害。金属容器会将金属溶解到水中,人们会摄入这些金属。 长时间暴露在大量塑料环境中会对人体造成危害,例如吸入香薰蜡烛和空气清新剂中的塑料微粒。人们焚烧各种物品,包括塑料,会释放塑料微粒到空气中,人们会吸入这些微粒。人们通过呼吸、饮水和皮肤接触等多种途径摄入塑料。 虽然塑料对健康有害,但与病原体相比,危害相对较小。过量的塑料会削弱免疫系统,但如果采取正确的措施,可以将塑料排出体外。橄榄叶、柠檬香脂、胡芦巴和毛蕊花可以帮助排出体内的塑料。一些方法可以帮助排出体内的塑料,例如喝柠檬水、芹菜汁,以及使用一些草药。虽然塑料对健康有害,但采取一些措施可以加速其排出。

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This chapter discusses the massive accumulation of plastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, its potential consequences, and the environmental impact of plastic pollution.
  • The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is larger than Texas and growing.
  • Billions of tons of plastic have been dumped into the ocean.
  • A future tsunami could carry billions of tons of plastic onto the shores of the West Coast.
  • The Garbage Patch is a prime example of abuse put upon the Earth.

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is looming over California, Hawaii and even Oregon. At some point far in the future there will be a price to pay for the billions of tons of plastic that has been dumped into the ocean that is now accumulated to larger than Texas. All it takes is that one dreaded earthquake that spurs on a tsunami and billions of tons of plastic will be barfed on the shores. Plastic is everywhere, it’s not going away, and the most dangerous exposure is breathing in the plastics in the air that come from various sources such as agricultural burning, domestic garbage burning, chem trails, hot cars sitting in the sun and so much more than just plastic bags and plastic water bottles. People running from plastic can accidentally run from a bee into a bus and have a worse situation on their hands. For instance, being so worried about drinking out of a plastic water bottle that they then choose to drink out of metal, steel, alloy and copper thermoses and metal bottles so that they get worse exposure than they realize. Plus, microplastics are easier to remove from the body. All is discussed in detail in this compelling episode.

In this episode… Learn about the many different ways in which plastic surrounds us, for instance, in pharmaceutical drugs and our clothing.

Discover more about the West Coast dumping nightmare that is a looming powder keg ready to explode.

Uncover why The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a prime example of abuse put upon the Earthly Mother.

Learn about plastic row covers and how they protect the plants on conventional farms—but where do they end up?

Discover why it’s not just plastic that’s the problem, it’s what’s inside of the plastic that can be. Uncover why the plastics we hold in our hands or have around our food and water are not the main contaminator, and why it’s the environmental plastics falling out of the sky that are the real problem.

Learn how your car is one of the greatest places we get plastic in our system from every single day, and what you can do about it.

Discover how suntan lotion can have a plastic problem, and it’s not because the lotion itself have plastics in them.

Uncover where plastic goes when it enters our body and why it takes a lot for plastic by itself to hinder the immune system.

Discover why drinking out of plastic water bottles is different than drinking from metal containers.

Learn what your neighbor might be burning in their backyard that you’re breathing in.

All this and more, tune in and don’t miss out on this important episode. You can revisit this episode anytime you need it.

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