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Plastics have similar impact to the body as estrogen.

I wouldn't be surprised if the younger puberty is due to the explosion in plastic usage. It would explain why boy puberty is not as impacted, but still impacted.

The body typically wants to balance itself, so having excess estrogen could be balanced out by more testosterone or whatever else is needed to balance the estrogen in a males body. Unlike in the female body which might not see extra estrogen as an issue, so their bodies don't try to counter/neutralize it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/

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For the nanoplastics, I've just bought a bunch of glass bottles as well as a glass Aarke water purifier for the home. My next question will be finding out if there are worse nano-x/y/z in my tap water!? Otherwise it's over to glass bottled water, but not many of them / quite expensive.

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Very interesting re early puberty and wonder if it’s linked to a decline in our basal metabolic rate

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/obesity-epidemic-iaea-database-shows-how-daily-energy-expenditure-has-changed-over-time

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