Plastics and Autoimmune Disease
I have wanted to look for research that connected plastics to inflammation because the use of plastics and epidemic of inflammatory diseases coincide. It could be coincidence, but I suspect there are some connections that have not yet been made and when they do get made it will be disruptive to our entire way of life. It will make what the tobacco companies did to hide the addictive nature of nicotine look like child’s play. There is so much money tied up in maintaining our plastics industries. All we can do is pray that someone that discovers the connections will care about humanity more than profit. Here’s an article that links plastics to obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Specifically, a chemical used in the manufacture of PVC alters glucose metabolism and increases fat storage in mice.