Health: physical and mental, individual and public.
Discussions, issues, resources, news, everything.
See the pinned post for a long list of other communities dedicated to health or specific diagnoses. The list is continuously updated.
Nothing here shall be taken as medical or any other kind of professional advice.
Commercial advertising is considered spam and not allowed. If you're not sure, contact mods to ask beforehand.
Linked videos without original description context by OP to initiate healthy, constructive discussions will be removed.
Regular rules of lemmy.world apply. Be civil.
Imagine going to all this work and then your dumb ass doesn't include the product names for fear that it will upset companies. Fucking scientists.
They really need to learn that when you find information that is important to public health, and publish it in journal - you are a journalist and should be legally and ethically bound to tell everyone which products passed, and which failed.
Yeah, we still don’t know which (most, apparently) tampons contain lead and arsenic.
the ones I buy surely contain 100% pure snake oil though
I recommend coconut oil instead
The title of the article is ignorantly misleading, and the core paper is intentionally misleading. They very explicitly state that their grading is not based on dose or exposure, only on detection with a threshold of 1 ppm. The fun thing about positive/negative testing is that if you have a sensitive enough test you can find just about anything.
There's a good reason they're not naming-and-shaming: this study was performed by the "nonprofit arm" of the company "million marker." Their products include similar scattergun tests trying to take advantage of people, particulalry vulnerable couples experiencing fertility issues. Their website is full of pseudoscientific and tautalogical claims, implying health benefits while being careful not to promise anything: "The good news is that if you follow our recommendations and eliminate the sources of exposure, you can dramatically decrease your exposure levels." Their "services" also include elimination coaching: naming products to avoid undermines the core message of the study: "this problem is EVERYWHERE... and only we can help."