Excellent article! I also like bamboo textiles. They are very durable and my bedsheets are made of this. It feels somewhere between cotton and silk. Highly recommended and not that expensive.
Another good one! I can't buy second-hand clothes anymore because the laundry detergent used is so awful. I try and buy only hemp, organic cotton and linen now. I've been wearing flip-flops lately (in the tropics) and that's next to go!
Yeah laundry detergent on second hand clothes is very annoying, and surprisingly persistent. For footwear - you could try moccasins? Not sure if they’ll be a bit too hot in the tropics maybe.
The quaternary ammonium compound section is the one that surprised me most. The 2024 fertility study showing QAC exposure alters FSH, LH, and spermatogenesis - with the effect showing up after a 10-day rest period rather than at point of exposure - suggests the damage is reproductive-system-level rather than acute toxicity to existing sperm. That's a harder mechanism to dismiss.
The timing makes this worse: QAC use exploded during COVID precisely when fertility data started trending down in subsequent cohort studies. The 2020-2022 cohorts may end up being a natural experiment in environmental endocrinology, but nobody's connecting those dots yet in the public discourse.
Excellent article! I also like bamboo textiles. They are very durable and my bedsheets are made of this. It feels somewhere between cotton and silk. Highly recommended and not that expensive.
Another good one! I can't buy second-hand clothes anymore because the laundry detergent used is so awful. I try and buy only hemp, organic cotton and linen now. I've been wearing flip-flops lately (in the tropics) and that's next to go!
Yeah laundry detergent on second hand clothes is very annoying, and surprisingly persistent. For footwear - you could try moccasins? Not sure if they’ll be a bit too hot in the tropics maybe.
The quaternary ammonium compound section is the one that surprised me most. The 2024 fertility study showing QAC exposure alters FSH, LH, and spermatogenesis - with the effect showing up after a 10-day rest period rather than at point of exposure - suggests the damage is reproductive-system-level rather than acute toxicity to existing sperm. That's a harder mechanism to dismiss.
The timing makes this worse: QAC use exploded during COVID precisely when fertility data started trending down in subsequent cohort studies. The 2020-2022 cohorts may end up being a natural experiment in environmental endocrinology, but nobody's connecting those dots yet in the public discourse.