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BPA, birth control/estrogen in water, and increased obesity rates would be my guess.
by derping69 9y ago
BPA, birth control/estrogen in water, and increased obesity rates would be my guess.
- jkelsey 9y agoInteresting. Could you elaborate?
- emersonrsantos 9y agoExogenous testosterone also lowers sperm count.
- imron 9y agoNot to mention estrogen from plastics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/
- PrimHelios 9y ago>birth control/estrogen in water Is that actually a thing? I didn't find any sources definitively showing it was enough to warrant a concern.
- azr79 9y agowomen take birth control they pee and flush this water gets processed and re injected back into the pipes if you make the mistake to drink the tap water where they re purpose it from the canalisations, you just drink birth control water.
- AstralStorm 9y agoData to back it up please? As far as I know the hormones used have quite short half life in decent conditions. Much less metabolites.
- xaqfox 9y agoSounds like you have a local water supply problem if they serve you recycled sewage (or a regretful plumbing problem).
- codewritinfool 9y agoThis is common among communities living on the Mississippi River, for example.
- PrimHelios 9y agoGonna need some evidence to back that up. Wouldn't the treatment get rid of the birth control? From what I was reading, this seems to be an anti-BC talking point, but I couldn't find any evidence to suggest that any estrogens in tap water is caused by BC.