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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. | Now, if we say absolutely everything is chemicals, that feels like a game of semantics, like "all concepts are made up" -- ''yes'', technically true but not useful to 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. | If that were my game here, you would be absolutely right to call it out. | ||
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Yet if you are saying you know exactly what chemicals are good ones and which are bad ones, | 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. | then you are falling right into the trap that marketers have been getting away with for way too long. | ||
And you're probably distracting yourself from actually living a bit healthier, if you | And you're probably distracting yourself from actually living a bit healthier, | ||
what the worst influences are. | if you pay only attention to the last boogymen, and cannot rank what the worst influences are, | ||
or estimate how much to care about specific ones. | |||
That said, biochemistry is ''complex'' so it is really hard to estimate whether a webpage saying "''fancy sounding words'', (skips five steps), so bad" or "''fancy sounding words'', (skips five steps), so fine" are valid. I don't trust most pages I come across while doing research either. | |||
Even when harder research gives strong evidence, it is still in isolation and under a handful conditions, that is still rarely slotted into the wider picture of bodies in general, let alone yours in particular. | |||
So while the below will be "eh, not so bad" about a bunch of things, | |||
it is still ''completely'' valid to avoid them altogether. | |||
Revision as of 14:47, 2 October 2023
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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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