Caution - drinking from plastic bottles can cause sexual disturbances

A researcher from Germany discovered that ingredients similar to the hormone estrogen seep from the plastic into the water in the bottle, which are originally a kind of water

in a previous list I wrote about bottles for water (and other drinks) produced from PET polyethylene terephthalate)) The PET grains melt and the pulp sinks the bottles.

Previous studies dealt with plastic that contains bisphenol-a (BPA), which is considered toxic, this may have been the reason for feeling that PET is safe to use, at least as far as people's health is concerned, but new findings show results that the material is not safe to use.

Martin Wagner - Martin Wagner. Goethe University in Frankfurt led a study that examined the results of using plastic bottles made from PET. According to him, it turned out that ingredients similar to the hormone estrogen seep from the plastic into the water in the bottle, this is in addition to substances that have been identified and Kim fears that their cumulative effect is damaging the normal activity of reproductive hormones. According to Wagner, drinking water from plastic bottles is like drinking estrogenic ingredients.

For the test, Wagner used yeast that had been genetically engineered to change color in the presence of estrogen-like substances, when the yeast was placed in water in the plastic bottles - their color changed. Another test was conducted with estrogen-sensitive snails.
Bottles that contained water from a mine (in Germany) were emptied and the snails were put into them. After eight weeks, females in the bottles carried twice as many embryos as females kept in glass control bottles, that is, according to Wagner, "something in the plastic fluttered and caused a change in the reproductive capacity of the snails."

To compare, tap water was tested and it turned out that it showed a significantly lower "estrogenic activity" than "safe" water that was in plastic bottles.

Following his research, Wagner recommends drinking tap water, according to him "at least they don't contain hormones". The publication of the results of the study led other researchers to recommend tap water.

When you add the results of Wagner's research to the claim of the polluting leg of the production of the bottles because of the amounts of carbon dioxide emitted during their production process, you get (perhaps) the beginning of the end of the harmful use of a harmful and unnecessary product.