Dear Subscriber
My colleague and friend, whom you well know, has just expanded on the environmental plastics theme, and with information new to me.
Joe Mercola reports research that unborn babies have microplastics in their digestive tracts! Wow. The ONLY way that can happen is for the particles to be transported across the placenta and the fetus attempt to get rid of them through the gut. But the plastics seem to be preferentially accumulated by the placenta over maternal blood, much like the fetus will detox the mother of mercury!
Plastic particles, including fibers from masks, are accumulating in lungs! Also, lungs are receiving particles from clothing fibers, plastic bottles, twine and likely more. He reports findings that facemasks have increased mortality.
Plastics will likely be attracted to lipid membranes of cells as plastic derives from petroleum, a non-polar substance. The irregularly shaped plastics (from environmental degradation) will be harder on cells than smooth plastics.
Personally, I believe plastic pollution is an existential threat to humanity. It cannot be treated in the body. The plastics may act as endocrine disruptors, score cell membranes leading to cellular death or injury. They can lodge in tissues and likely exert and inflammatory response similar to non-biodegradable asbestos.
We are witnessing the biological fallout of catastrophic chemical/plastic pollution in real time slow motion. The non-specific sexual behavior disruption in fish and amphibians has morphed to humans. Men have epidemic ED and prostate issues. Women have epidemic breast cancer, hormonal, and other female issues. We are seeing escalating rates of cognitive decline. And in our young, humans with penis and testicles believe they are females and vice versa. In the meantime, our fascist state takes 40 billion of your tax dollars to throw at a foreign war trumped up by yellow journalism which could lead us to an out and out nuclear holocaust. The corporate rape and pillage of the population and world is sustained openly, and the population is getting dumbed down hourly by the government/press unholy marriage, and a federal department of education that has upended common sense and logic.
The same marriage of the fascist state and press deflects our attention to garbage issues that simply inflame rather than unites, all the while we are being divided and conquered from within.
I close on this note. This weekend, Terri and I took a short respite from craziness by visiting Pinnacles National Park. Our dream was to see a California condor, perhaps the most endangered bird in the world, and with the largest wingspan of any bird in North America. I did an arduous 4-hour trek to the top of Pinnacles late afternoon on day 1 after a medium strenuous hike with Terri in the morning. The condors were not out and I wasted my legs. Our prayers were answered in the last 2 hours of our trip on the last day. We saw 4, some with clear tags. The California condor is an example of one of the very few things government did right, but cannot apply the lesson learned from animals to humans.
The condor was going extinct just a generation ago. State and Federal governments collaborated on capturing all the remaining condors and breeding them in captivity. Why were thy dying out? Largely from pollution and human encroachment into their territory. The birds were eating lead pellets from hunters’ carcasses. They were being poisoned from DDT. Protected from human encroachment, pollution and predation, and LEFT TO THEIR OWN DESIGNS, the condors have made a small comeback. Think about the bears in Yosemite National Park. If you feed a bear, you will get cited and possibly imprisoned. We are impressed with the fact that the bears must learn to fend for themselves in the wild as they instinctively know what is better for them than we do.
The government does not treat humans so well. We are not left to fend for ourselves. We continue to get pummeled with poisons (including petrochemical drugs) and our ability to fend for ourselves has been fully strangled with all kinds of handouts The birds were protected from poisons, and freed to take care of themselves and their young in their own instinctual wisdom, and are prospering. Why can’t government learn from what it is doing in nature and apply it to humans who also are animals? We need a clean environment and the ability to take care of ourselves instead of government “attempting” to take care of us, while actually keeping us in a perpetual state of government predation.
I think were we all treated like the condor, we would prosper both physically in health and wellness, and also economically, when left to properly fend for and take care of ourselves instead of the government stripping us of both our Liberty and security by imposing what it dictates is best for us.
You help a man not be feeding him, but by giving him a fishing rod and seeds and helping him to freely take care of himself and family. We have lost that in the corporate welfare/fascist/totalitarian state. While I read that the condor is curious and is attracted to and may be eating plastic pollution which could ultimately participate in its ultimate demise, I envy the condor for the wisdom the government has at least shown in handling endangered animals, particularly this one. Humans should only get so lucky.
To Your Excellent Health!
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/05/25/microplastics-from-masks-in-human-lungs.aspx?ui=4736fb3b3c727a803f9a0815060dd687a29f9e7659cf3cd2ab4d5be7a8f37d39&sd=20211220&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2HL&cid=20220525&mid=DM1177629&rid=1500741343
Pinnacles National Park, 5:30 pm March 23, 2022:
The paper Mercola cites is jaw-dropping:
https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Fulltext/2022/02180/The_Foegen_effect__A_mechanism_by_which_facemasks.60.aspx
Makes clear sense to me that masks could make covid more severe and more transmissible through the "Foegen effect". Basically you have virus in dropslets on your mask and the water evaporates. Now you have pure virus that you inhale which can get deeper into your lungs, and plus get rebreathed, exponentially increasing growth. I've been wearing masks til now not caring about tranmission but thinking it might reduce severity. Some early studies showed increase in asymptomatic proportion of covid in places where mask mandates started. The possible mechanisms there are reduction of the initial inocolum size (which the Foegen effect says could be 100% backwards), and also through increasing humidity in the lungs.
Informative though concerning.