Is It Possible to Be Completely Free of Plastic?

And it's also happening because of plastics in the water. You know, I know Krista Stefano was talking about this recently on his Instagram, but he's incorrect about it. He was saying that it makes you more of a chance of getting cancer. It's not that. He was talking about taints being smaller. And this is a woman named Dr. Shanna Swan. And what they found is that phthalates, which are a particular residue from plastics, it's a chemical that comes from all the petrochemical products that we use, plastics and things you microwave in and things you keep water in. They all leak phthalates. And these phthalates, when applied to mammals, they've done these studies where they show that there's a direct correlation between phthalates in their bloodstream and babies being born with smaller taints. Which is true? Yes, it is true. The distance between your dick and your asshole in males and mammals, it's one of the best ways to recognize whether a mammal is a male or a female. Because you know, sometimes people see like hamsters or a puppy. It's hard to tell if it's a boy or a girl. You got to look at it real close, especially with the furry one. The best way to tell is the taints because taints and males are 50 to 100% larger than taints on females. But because of exposure to phthalates, the taints are growing smaller and smaller. The penis sizes are growing smaller and smaller. Testicle sizes are growing smaller and smaller. Sperm counts are dropping. Fertility rates are dropping rapidly. And it all has to do with plastic, which is a part of the modern world. So just like the modern world of like throwing meat to these wolves and getting them closer to the campfire led to the domestication of the wolf, which led to them slowly getting turned into collies. That's what's happening to humans. We are literally not just because of our environment and our society and the cushy nature of our existence in 2022, but also the introduction of petrochemical products is a direct correlation. And this woman, Dr. Shanna Swanch has this book called Countdown. It's fucking terrifying because she's basically saying that this data wasn't even really uncovered until was it like 2015, Jamie? It's new. It's for sure new. Very new. This story I saw the other day. Microplastics has been found in air, water, food, and now human blood. Well, yeah, that's that's the phthalates. And it's also plastics and also different pesticides and different farming chemicals. Mike Wow. Scientists tested the blood of 22 anonymous donors and found microplastics in 80 percent of them. This is wild shit, man, because it's literally changing the hormonal profile and the reproductive systems of human beings and making us weaker, but it's less masculine. It's kind of pick your poison though, right? Because like the modern world makes you live longer, but sort of, but you live like a bitch. You live like a bitch. Previous research had found we inhale and ingest enough microplastic pieces of plastic to create a credit card each week. Holy shit. But until now, scientists didn't know within those particles were entering the bloodstream. Ingest enough microscopic pieces of plastic to create a credit card each week. Holy fuck, man. That's a lot. Holy fuck. I click the thing. It says there's about 2000 tiny pieces of plastic each week that equal the weight of a credit card. Damn. But where's it coming from? What's most of it's coming from? It says making their way into our food, drinking water, and even air. But it says it's on CNN. They might be lying. Do you shit it out or is it like becoming part of your body and is toxic? No, it becomes a part of your blood. It gets in your bloodstream. Brutal. Well, this is the awareness of microplastics and their impact of the environment is increasing. This study has helped provide an accurate calculation of ingestion rates for the first time. So pull up that woman's book, Dr. Shana Swan. I recommend everybody, if you don't want to buy her book or get her audio book, please at least listen to her on the podcast because it's fucking wild. So it's when she details the impact, the direct correlation between the invention of these petrochemical products and where we're at right now in terms of sperm rates, taint sizes, testicle sizes, penis sizes, and with women, it's miscarriage rates and rates of fertility. Everything is getting affected by these plastics to the point where she's like, you shouldn't use any of that stuff. Don't drink out of plastic bottles. All that. It's wild shit, man. It makes sense. It does make sense, but it's terrifying that we didn't know about it until seven years ago. Yeah. Well, that's what it seems like capitalism pushes something forward because it's cheap and efficient and it serves the bottom line. And then we find out about the consequences like later because the consequences are often inconvenient to the bottom line. They try to suppress it for as long as possible. Is there a way even to live without plastic in this age without completely revamping the entire society? And that would probably take 100 years. Don't they do like recyclable plastic? They know how to make plastic out of potatoes and things like that now. I don't know if it's specifically potatoes, but sometimes you'll see this plastic was made from something. I don't understand it. It's egghead shit, but ... I don't know if they still use petrochemical products in making it out of potatoes. I would imagine they do because they have machines. Maybe it just doesn't get into the actual product, but I know they can make hemp plastic. And hemp plastic is actually biodegradable. There's a lot of shit they can make off of hemp. Hemp is an alien plant. It's probably like just has to do with if it costs more or not and if plastic is probably the cheaper way. Well, we've been doing it this way for so long. When do they start using plastics for food and containers and shit? It was probably like the 1950s. Probably. Good guess. When was like ... That's when all like ... Remember when styrofoam was a big thing in the 80s and they were like, that shit's never going to end up out of the landfills. We've got to stop using styrofoam. Yeah. Think about how many times you drank coffee out of a styrofoam cup. Yeah. You have hot liquid in that cup for sure. Some of that plastic is getting into the body. Without a doubt. Large-scale plastic production began in the early 50s. There you go. Good call, man. I probably remembered it. But from then to now, you're talking about 70-ish years and in those 70-ish years, most of what we use needs plastic. Everything has plastic on it. Here's the did you know fact on it. It's a lot of plastic. Plastics have produced 18.2 trillion pounds of plastic, the equivalent of one billion elephants. Since large-scale plastic production began in the early 1950s, nearly 80% of that plastic is now in landfills. Holy fuck. By 2050, another 26.5 trillion pounds will be produced worldwide. Plastic flowing in the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes will increase from 11 million metric tons in 2016 to 29 million metric tons annually in 2040, the equivalent of dumping 70 pounds of plastic waste along every foot of the world's coastline, according to the research from the Pew Charitable Trusts. You can eat or breathe in about 2,000 tiny plastic particles each week. My God. Most are ingested from bottled water and tap water. Whoa, tap water is plastic. Why is tap water? I don't know. But the crazy thing is this is radically affecting our biology, and we didn't even know about it. When that lady was on this podcast, I read the synopsis of her book, and I was like, wow, that would be interesting. It was terrifying. I thought what she was going to say was ... I had no idea it was going to be that nuts. That is crazy. And that it was about taints, and that your taint is a great measure of where ... how much phthalates you came in contact with when you were in the womb. If we keep going, will they collide? Yeah, it would be a colecle, like a duck. You'll just have like ... it would be easier to fuck yourself. I guess. Yeah. Sad. Yeah. It's not good. But that's ... I mean, if you look at all the shit that's going on today, where like ... We need to save the taints movement to get this awareness. I would like to look at Russian taints. They're probably very long. So the more masculine you are, the bigger your taint, essentially. I don't know if that's the case, but it's a direct relationship to the exposure of phthalates that it gets smaller. I don't know if it's like you have a long, super long taint. It's like more masculine. But on average, male mammals have a 50% to 100% larger taint than the female mammals.