Microplastics in Drinking & Shower Water
“Just one word young man. Plastics!” This is a famous line in the movie that made Dustin Hoffman famous, The Graduate.
Plastics have become a huge reality in our world today.
Sir Edward Charles Dodds, a British medical researcher at the University of London, was the first to investigate how hormones work and proclaim estrogen to be a critical natural hormone.
Dr. Dodds synthesized the first synthetic, most powerful endocrine disrupting compound (EDC) called DES, diethylstilbestrol.
This was prescribed in prenatal vitamins from 1938 to 1971, to make natural pregnancies, better. DES was finally banned in 1971 as a Class I Carcinogen.
While in pursuit of this synthetic DES estrogen, Dr. Dodds was the first to identify the estrogenic properties of BPA, in the mid-1930s. He is credited with being the father of “bisphenol-A plastics”.
We now know that bisphenol-A is a grand endocrine-disrupting compound (EDC).
We also know that microplastics, also synthetic estrogenic endocrine disrupting compounds, are everywhere. In tap water. In shower water. Fish flesh. Even inside our colonic micro-biome.
Microplastics can act as unhealthy estrogens or estrogenic endocrine disruptors. They are examined for their role in many increasing health disorders from liver issues to asthma and even to diverse cancers.
How to reduce our exposure becomes a critical mantra?