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Everything is chemicals. | |||
Now, if we say absolutely everything is chemicals, that feels like a game of semantics - technically true but not what we mean to communicate. Stop defending putting that weird shit in my body. | |||
If that were my game here, you would be absolutely right to call it out. | |||
Yet if you are saying you know exactly what chemicals are good ones and which are bad ones, | |||
then you are falling right into the trap that marketers have been getting away with for too long. | |||
And you're probably distracting yourself from actually living a bit healthier, if you can't rank | |||
what the worst influences are. | |||
For many things, this is about balance. The concentrations of preservatives that keep your cosmetics from getting contaminated in a heartbeat is low enough for you to not notice it. The concentrations that keeps various food okay in your fridge for weeks rather than days, the same. The things that keep bolulism out of fruit, the same. | |||
It has been studied what, so we decide that tradeoff is worth it. | |||
But even fundamentally -- the substance that does that will probably kill if pure. | |||
So drawing the line is extremely arbitrary. The question is what it does | |||
And also, this is about. Salt is a good preservative. We don't fear salt. We know salt. Even though we sometimes eat it at levels that knock our osmolality out of whack. | |||
But then, we also decided even if it preserves well, maybe we don't want everything to taste like salt. | |||
This is not about natural, either. | |||
There are a plenty of natural things that we absolutely require, or produce ourselves, but if we get thousands of times more than that we . | |||
And when something has bad effects when it builds up, terms like [[bioaccumulation]] suddenly matter a lot, because that just means "adds up because we don't metabolize/secrete it". Luckily, most things don't. | |||
And things that either bioaccumulate or are bad at lower concentrations, are usually already known as straight-up toxins/poisons. | |||
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'''All that said''' | |||
'''That's not to say that things that don't kill you don't tax you.''' | |||
Say, if you don't manage alcohol poisoning, you are still taxing your body. | |||
'''It can't hurt to be careful''' | |||
Bue also, yes, until you can be pretty sure of safety, with a pretty thorough story, | Bue also, yes, until you can be pretty sure of safety, with a pretty thorough story, | ||
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BIG RED TEXT HELLO: This is not health advice, or necessarily correct. Do not make health decisions based on just this. Do your own research, and not just the stuff that agrees with your opinions.
But first
Everything is chemicals, and everything is toxic at high concentrations
Toxin, poison, venom
Some things worth talking about
Pesticides
BPA
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Phtalates
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PFAS
PFOA
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