Why You Should Care About the Plastic in Your Poop
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2019
- A recent study has concluded that people all over the world are probably ingesting microscopic plastic all the time. Now scientists want to know where this plastic is coming from, how it ends up inside of us, and the damage it could do to our bodies and our world.
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so there's nurdles in my turdles?
Damn this comment should get 1k likes
it is time for you to log off the internet
Lmfaoooo Glenn you are amazing. You made me laugh during my time of hardship. ❤️ thank you 😊
LMAO
@@andrewrichens5733 no u
_The Lego box said 4+ years but i ate it in under a minute. smh_
It's 4 years to come out.
Amateur! I ate mine in 45 seconds! 😂😂😂
Lol I have ass cancer now but I once ate a box that said 10+ years but I ate all of it in 1 min and 21 seconds. 👌
Music Arena Ok fine
CoughE You win best joke
Based on the video title I'm surprised to find the video ISN'T hosted by Hank.
I'm loving all these valentines day themed videos
I like your Valentine themed picture.
They are not the type that got any valentines.
They gave up on the general population as audience and decided to attract the ones that are alone at valentine. Like me and you.
@@neo-babylon7872 I'm so glad people still think of us at this time of year
Ikr? It's so cute and warm to the heart.
I just had a horrendous thought when he mentioned airborne plastics: Respiratory System cancers. If we're breathing this stuff, can it damage our lungs in similar ways that Asbestos does? If so, we may have an issue larger than just plastics in our poop. (There's a study right there. Someone get right on it.)
Jack Linde Good luck finding a control group.
@@willflew2408 Actually, it wouldn't be a testing. It would be analyzing cancer rates over a time period.
As for the control group, that's ni impossible. Like the radioactive isotopes we've all inhaled, we've all inhaled plastics. :(
Like the flame retardants scandal
It most certainly could
I always hold my breath when I take the laundry out of the dryer because I can see tons of fibers floating in the air. Most of my clothes are cotton but some have synthetic blends. It freaks me out.
Wonder if we accumulate significant quantities over time by brushing our teeth with a plastic toothbrush.
That's actually a very interesting theory. .. I hope when the study is peer reviewed they use that as a factor.
Plastic cooking utensils ( ladles, spatulas, etc ), and also disposable forks, knives, spoons, and plates could all be issues, too. So many potential studies could be done.
It's rather unfortunate that we couldn't find out about stuff like this before plastic became so widespread. Sadly, it wasn't like we knew to test for these dangers.
We could have, we're just a massively, suicidally reckless species. The scientists that engineered plastics from petroleum had every reason to believe that it would be harmful to human health. Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds, and greatest philosophers of our time, and he participated in the Manhattan Project to create nuclear weapons.
Our societal institutions force action too quickly, and they are run by pathological optimists that are too sure of themselves and don't understand the implications of their decisions.
We made radioactive toothpaste long after plastic was created. If it can earn you money, testing it for hazards will impede your income.
@@SolarScion What reason would we have had to think it would degrade into microplastics? Even now, knowing that they exist for years, we aren't quite sure of their effects, let alone when plastic was developed.
i like how the fact that there is microplastic in the air all around us is "silver lining"
Glass is the best. It's non-toxic, it can be crushed into small pieces anywhere to dispose of it, not harmful to the environment, and you can melt it down to make new bottles. Plastic floats on water, gives off harmful fumes when burned, and the list goes on.
Yeah, but try eating it
Glass is also more expensive, inflexible, more fragile, and less durable.
@@mrtannzr we got along with glass bottles for decades. Drinks taste better in a glass bottle to boot.
Plastic are also used to contain acids that glass cannot.
umm if you crush it and the pieces get into the ocean, what will happen to any fish that breathe it in by accident
Why is it that right when i sit down to take a poop i get a notification for this
I would say "same" buy I already did.
@@dontknowdontcare1934
What are you saying?
Correction: what is it you failed to say?
O r e o you guys wanna hear sicko mode or mo bamba
Same
Ratko Mladic relieving at the least, i had had to go for about an hour at minimum
You are so right! Nurdles are the cutest names for pollutants ever. We need to make it more threatening like... Thisisbad. No, I am not the best at original names...
How about Pokey McPlasticFace
Thisisbad... Tisbads?
I'm not the best either.
I vote for Death Beads
You're right, you're terrible at this. I think we need a new word to describe the fact that these are both bad and wrong. Bad-wrong... Badong. These pollutants are badong.
Well since they are not meant to be pollutants but rather the raw material for other things their cute name makes sense...
thank u for scarring my life for good; nothing is going to be the same again.
Eight people doesn't sound like that big of a sample
They never said what they ate either,though they kept track of it.
Eight people is way too few to constitute a sample. 500 and I would still probably be suspicious.
They need more research for sure. But if they are in our food, water, and air, they are probably in us.
@@christelheadington1136
I'm sure if you go and read the actual study you'll find a list of what they ate somewhere.
This is a quick rundown of the study, not a word for word recital of the study.
@@lordgarion514 -In a general way,since it was a small study,knowing if they ate a lot of sea food,or if they were vegetarians, or ate at McDonalds,or all had no diet in common;might tell you where the plastic came from.
I think I'll just quit eating. I'm full of glyphosate (Roundup), C8 (Tephlon) and now plastic. Now I understand the people signing up for the Mars Launch.
You'll probably just be trading all that for Mars' perchlorates
Huh, where do people sign up for mars launches these days? I'd totally be down, I don't want to live on this planet anymore anyway.
too bad mars one is bankrupt
Thanks for sharing this fascinating if really disturbing information with me. Great job, everyone!
I loooveee these deep dives into technique. Great work!
Isn't sending biohazardous waste through the mail illegal?
I wouldn't consider healthy poop a biohazard 😂
Unsealed samples are probably illegal however these samples were sealed.
@@sianmilne4879
Considering the plastic content, it seems quite a stretch to call these samples healthy.
Maybe they used a slingshot.
There are different ways of transporting different biohazard materials, even in the mail
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I’m in college and my mom just sent me a Tupperware container of food labelled “Microwave Safe.”
I was really worried about using it, but this really helps!
We have poisoned the entire globe yet we still produce plastic without blinking an eye
Capitalism
This is horrible. I think this should be linked to cancer as well.
We ourselves need to make the lifestyle changes that used less contaminants. Maybe then companies and governments will follow suit.
It's a culture change, replace plastic where you can with a reusable alternative. Also check out Terracycle.com
I wonder if it has any link to a rise in recorded autism spectrum diagnoses.
Sipping on a wawa coffee that has a plastic lid watching this.
Only a few of us know what a wawa is.........privileged we are. Anyone for a shorti with extra plastic?
When you scrape the sides of the margarine dish i imagine you scrape up a bunch of plastic with it too
Isn't margarine one molecule away from being plastic anyway? Even flies aren't attracted to it if left outside. Lol
excellent teaching video!
you had me at "can you please overnight your poop to me"
The Austrian scientists probably asked other scientist friends who had experience with similarly odd requests.
Unwrap the candy before you eat it. Duh..
Also dont forget Dupont forever tainted the earth with C-8.
Gen x now too
@Joe Average -- Re: Autism, very unlikely to be related to plastics. The latest studies say that autism is a structural difference in the brain.
For instance, autistic brains 'repurpose' areas, so what would in neurotypical brains be assigned to one thing light up in MRI's as something vastly different.
Especially notable as a trend in autistic brains is a lack of neutral pruning, and especially an overabundance of neuronal connections in the limbic area (which has been noted both in living and in post-mortem studies) hence why sensory over-load is common. This is also why more autistic people have synesthesia than Genpop.
Edit: Just in case it's not clear, I strongly doubt that plastic is responsible for a brain entirely re-structuring itself and not engaging in neural pruning. We (yes we) Autistics, are just a result of the fact that sexual selection results in semi-random combinations, and it seems like a not-uncommon variation in humans is brain structure difference. People who have ADHD have difference in brain structure, so do people with depression, and so do people who experience synesthesia--- actually there's probably a list longer than I can make, but I hope you get the idea. Autistic's aren't alone in this, just one particular variation of many possible ones. Neurodiversity is a thing.
This reminds me of when they found teflon contamination in an isolated tribe in South America. Also the cheap washing powders here in South Africa contain micro plastic for scrubbing action. Just worried about my body wash and facial exfoliator. The body wash is Nivea so should be fine, but the face wash is locally produced. Also my flat used to have a nylon carpet at the end of its life, so glad that is gone, so much fibres and it did not work with my cats (dirt and fleas).
I’m sipping from a plastic straw in a plastic cup
outcome = plastic stained poop
Savage
I'm currently inhaling asthma medication from a plastic nebulizer :-/
Noticed the texture on it. Yes it does go in.
outcome = plastic sperm = plastic baby. Chances for the last one is 0 though.
0:15 me chewing on my bottle watching this:
Woah
People really need to stop eating plastic
they came from fish and your everyday water
Just pass a law outlawing the ingestion of plastic. That works so well for other things.
Once I bit off and ate part of a plastic spoon on accident and didn't realize until I swallowed.
It's a long story 🌚
exellent video!
My assumption is clothing. Since water bottles are used to make cloth.
I'm glad this appeared in my feed..👍
Ew a weeb
I thought horses don't eat plastic..
4:26 Hypothetically, one source could be from some pills that use plastic capsules, in order to delay the release of the medicine contained within the pills during the digestion process, but maybe the plastic capsules themselves haven't completely dissolved (or have been fully digested), and are then eliminated as nurdles in our waste :/
I did some research last summer looking at microplastics macroinvertebrates in estuarine tidal wetlands. One of the wetlands has a lot of industrial activity nearby, so it wasn't surprising to see a bunch of plastic in the worms and clams there. However, one of the other sites was a small, secluded wetland off of the main river. Every specimen I analyzed contained microplastics, and not just one or two, but HUNDREDS of pieces in just a drop of their pulverized tissue. Plastic is everywhere, and it sickens me just how far our actions have spread down the food chain. :(
Yet another amazing video. Entertaining as well as informative. As a content creator myself, I highly admire your videos. Keep up the great work!
yaas
Interesting video! Remember everyone, there are a ton of qualifiers in this video that suggest a lot of uncertainty:
You "probably" eat plastic.
"Yet to undergo peer review."
"We don't yet know the health effects."
"Maybe even" the tiny bits of plastic themselves tend to stick around.
It seems like people tend to misinterpret videos like these and take them for fact. To me they always feel like they're deliberately meant to appeal to the public's fears. Just remember what he said at the end, "More research is needed to determine how they affect our health." No reason to be scared right now.
"I'm ferociously ill and having panic attacks regarding my health. Let's relax and watch SciShow and settle down. Wait, what the--"
To quote Tom Lehrer:
“To think of all the marvelous ways
They're using plastics nowadays”
I know this is a long shot but could this be what people with morgellons are actually seeing?
All my clothes are polyester now. Aka plastic. I'm probably absorbing so much plastic
I appreciate the awareness and have heard this somewhere else before. This is a red flag. Yes, more studies would be great, but it seems like something that should already be a concern and I don't know if its wise to keep consuming up to the panic point. Why rely on sensationalism to get your butt in gear and make better consumer choices. I'm going to do my best to use less plastic when practical. It's useful, but maybe being smarter about it is a good idea. Health issues aren't a convenience. You want better health care, take care of your health. Medical bills cost more than the time it takes to change habits.
Huh, I remember when I was doing a fecalysis on a stool sample, I saw something that my professor identified as plastic. That was a couple of years ago, in my 3rd year of college.
I love the LEGO comments. So true.
I also love how he had to say anyways despite the actual word anyway being displayed. #bananyways. Lol 😂
big fan of the channel! id love to see a video on how the current disruption of the arctic circle has effected the wildlife populations of the northern US + Canada. we know that the cold air has had devastating effects on the people that live there (with people quite literally freezing to death) but i want to know how the native wildlife is dealing with it.
The real problem with plastics is they are polymers made from monomers through a process in which the monomers (such as vinyl chloride) are put in a bath of sulfuric acid at 100 degrees C and converted into polymers (such as Polyvinyl chloride). The spent acid is dis[posed at sea, killing plankton and other oxygen generating organisms, and contributing to the acidification of the oceans. We shout return to the use of paper, glass, and metals for our many containers as the are the least destructive materials to use.
Probably a +1 for the ergument that we live in a new geologic age called the Anthropocene. When future alien geologists dig into our rock to study Earth's history, they will find high concentrations of microplastics and higher amounts of unnaturally occuring radioisotopes and CO2.
This explains why I’ve been pooping Play-Doh. If I squeeze just right, I can create star shapes. 😂
I'm more worried about poop in my plastic
I found plastic on my poop. That's why I came on this video. I didn't remember I ate plastic.
When I saw the title, I shat Lego bricks.
*Aqua* *was* *sort* *of* *right* ... "Life in plastic, it's fantastic!" they just needed to change the last part of that rhyme to "it's so tragic".
5mm is pretty damn big. Not what I'd call "micro." I think I'd notice if I was eating plastic that was that size.
John Opalko 5mm or smaller, most smaller. 5mm is still small enough to make the objects harder to deal with than if you just had the same mass of plastic composed of larger objects if you were trying to clean an area of plastics. The term usually isn't used in reference to what we're likely to eat.
the microplastics ingested claimed to be found in this study are fibres, so they maybe 5mm in length but they would still be very hard to see especially mixed in with your food
@@amyosborne5349 What you say makes sense, but he specifically said less than 5mm _in diameter._ I wonder if he was an order of magnitude off. Half a millimeter I can almost see labeling as "micro."
@@johnopalko5223 no he is right with the less than 5mm thats the most common definition used in jounal articles
@@amyosborne5349 Okay. I, of course, didn't know that. Thanks for the information. I appreciate it.
Can you please do a video on metal foam
Could you please do a video on Claytronics(the study of Self-Assembling Robots).
Sea salt contains microplastics Seeker did a youtube video on it. That could explain at least some of the microplastics in our diet. But the dust is an interesting thought which make sense. From clothes, to carpet , and add food packaging we are surrounded by plastic. The additives to plastics like colour/ softeners, hardeners, UV resistant, heat resistance can be the most harmful part. That is the special recipe that plastic companies keep very secret.
I'm watching this on the toilet now I'm questioning myself
I work at Ace Hardware and there is a free soda fountain and considering the amount of large plastic chunks I see just fall in there must be tons of tiny bits that people drink
I dropped a turd yesterday that had so much plastic in it I packaged it up and sold it to a novelty shop as fake dog poop.
a german study in 2018 showed, that fresh cooked food contained micro-plastic after cooking. The food has been absorbing airborne micro-plastic while cooking.
I work at a manufacturer that uses plastics, I would probably have lots of Nurdles in my poop. The resin dust is electrostatic so it gets everywhere.
I drink water from a plastic bottle, now I'm concerned
Study: Sample size of just 8 people
SciShow: WHY YOU HAVE PLASTIC IN YOUR POOP!!!1
Watching this as I scrape mould lines off my plastic miniatures.
Reminds me of Silent Spring 🤔
"Life in plastic, it's fantastic"
Someone please do a 2 hour documentary on poop - everything found in it, where it comes from, what it tells us. I just want...wait for it.........to put the whole subject behind me.
gota google it the end
That's horrifying!
Well, I am going to have nightmares now.
I’ve started replacing all plastic containers with glass ones. It’s the best bet.
well there is in mine for sure. After 2 yrs of constant 3d printing in same room I would be suprised if there would not be
I've worked at a couple Plastics companies... nobody and either of them had ever heard the word nurdles.
What about Plastics and synthetics in medications, gel capsules?
This video just opened so many cans of worms for me, I feel physically ill now at the thought of all the possible long term effects from constant toxin exposure.
This is scary for sure
thanks plastic for the nightmares...
Earth: Exists.
Micro Plastics: *It's free real estate.*
Yoe keep throwing around the blanket term "Diabetes" There really three types Type I, Type II and gestational. Be more specific please. Each has it's own cause or causes. So where hormones many effect two of the three types they do not so much in the type I Diabetes. Type I is a autoimmune diseases are: Type 1 diabetes. The immune system attacks the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. This was a quick and simplified answer. I just wished that in the future you would keep this in mind.
There is also diabetes insipidus
@@2awesome292 Not the same at all as the three I mentioned. They do need to differentiate when they make the videos.
Context....
@@bjornolson6527 very true. But in some cases when they are trying to get you to buy there (whatever) and they are talking about diabetes mellitus they don't say what form.
This is terrifying
Um... Toothbrush bristles and floss. Not that I'm going to stop using these items, but there's a potential source. That's even despite the fact that people don't normally swallow toothpaste.
This report seems to be confounding microplastics with the compounds that leach out of them. The latter enter the body (and are subject to bioaccumulation) while the former generally remain in the digestive tract and are excreted.
I want to hear about ways to eliminate microplastics from food--- heat? Solvents? Plasticizer?
Greetings from the USA!
Thumbnail: THERE'S LEGO IN ME?
According to Dr. DiNicolantonio (a researcher), micro plastics have been found in sea salt.
Well time to learn how to photosynthesize, any suggestions?
Plastic- the bane of the environment, while also enabling hospital patients a lifeline
So THAT'S why my poopoo tastes funny.
I used to microwave a non-microwaveable container & I didn’t notice it was melted for like a year. I was in 5th grade.
They were disposeables
I haven't watched the video, but does it make sense to make a video based on something that still has to be peer reviewed?
I can honestly say that until today, I never thought of 3D printing with poop.
Random question. Can you drink degassed water. And if so, is it better for you?
Why isn’t there a Muscle Michael?
He already is relatively muscular
Muscle Hank wasn't randomly invented, that profile's pic is a screenshot from a SciShow video that mentioned a mutation that makes a mammal very muscular. Since they've already done a video on that, there's no need to do it again, and therefore there will be no Muscle Any-other-host
Anyone else remember when everything came in glass and paper? Everything was just..... better. Down with plastic!
Would pooping Lego hurt as bad as stepping on one or worse?
on pooooooooooop?!
Comon... its already done process ... its a good sign... a good job for digestive system...
Beavis: Wouldn't it be cool if there were pipes for poop going everywhere?
Butthead: It's already like that Beavis, how do you think the poo gets out of your house?
Beavis: It doesn't! I keep it in little jars in my basement!
Well that sucks are you saying there's absolutely no way to avoid it?
Welp guess I'll die then