Anonymous wrote:Then there's Teflon pans, led, Tylenol. How much have changed your life with all these facts? - Surrounding not using, touching, smelling plastic? I'm over sixty, why bother at this point now. My kids and grandkids, I try to get them on board, but they are so busy running around, I don't think they comply with any of these nuances.

Aluminum foil has thrown me for a loop, that and that I have to get a Measles booster.

Tylenol is fine btw.

https://health.ec.europa.eu/scientific-committees/easy-read-summaries-scientific-opinions/are-led-lights-safe-human-health-0_en

LED- don't stare at them, especially in the blue band spectrum. But completely incidental in consideration of all the various radiation bands your eyes are exposed to over your lifetime. (I'm sure smoke detectors still contain trace amounts of radioactive material btw)

I'd be worried about the kids and especially grandkids re plastics, because older people have had far less lifetime exposure to plastic. When I was a kid, soda was always in glass bottles (besides us rarely getting it as a treat). When Prell Shampoo came out in plastic bottles their ad campaign focused on a young woman tossing a shampoo bottle over the shower curtain to her sister, who is amazed--"it didn't break!!!"

Anonymous wrote:Aluminum has been linked to mental decline and alzheimers for years now. That was big news in the 1990s.

You are just learning about it now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aluminum has been linked to mental decline and alzheimers for years now. That was big news in the 1990s.

You are just learning about it now.

Hogwash. https://www.healthline.com/health/alzheimers/aluminum-and-alzheimers#misunderstandings

Current research either rejects the idea that aluminum can harm your brain or states that the evidence is inconclusive, but the myth persists.

This myth likely arose from studies published in 1965 that involved animals. But those studies did not account for real-world limitations. Specifically, the animals in the experiments were exposed to extremely high aluminum levels, far more than a person would ever experience in real life.

My DH would not use antiperspirant, nor does my son (his dad died when he was 13, so it's not because of that. He also frowned on aluminum cookwear.

From what I read, aluminum is pretty ubiquitous in the environment naturally and definitely NOT what Alz researchers worry about.