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Industrial compounds found in common products like takeout containers and non-stick pans may contribute to an increase in liver disease as people get older that could eventually require transplants, according to a report.
Business Insider, citing an analysis published in Environmental Health Perspectives, said scientists believe that in the next decade, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease will become the leading reason for liver transplants. The report said about 25 percent of the world’s population has the disease.
The report said nearly all Americans are exposed to PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The PFAS can be found in the air or drinking water and the chemicals stay in the bloodstream for a lifetime. (See “FOREVER CHEMICALS: POISON ON TAP” (11 Feb 2020) and “DEADLY ‘FOREVER CHEMICALS’ in U.S. WATER.” (13 Apr 2021)
The Trends Journal has been reporting on PFAS for years. See our articles:
- “PFAS CONTAMINATION MORE WIDESPREAD” (28 Jan 2020)
- “FOREVER CHEMICALS: POISON ON TAP” (11 Feb 2020)
- “SPERM DOWN FOR THE COUNT, PENISES FALLING SHORT” (30 Mar 2021)
The Guardian reported that nearly 60 percent of children’s textiles labeled “waterproof,” “stain-resistant,” or “environmentally friendly,” contained these substances. The New York Times also reported that PFAS are in rainwater, soil, sediment, ice caps, and outdoor and indoor plants.
“It’s in the Arctic. It’s in the polar bears. It’s in trees. It is at the bottom of the ocean,” Keith Vorst, an associate professor at Iowa State University who studies the levels of PFAS in products, told the paper. “We have literally polluted our planet.”
“It’s definitely a concern because these toxic chemicals can make their way into children’s bodies,” said Laurel Schaider, one of the study’s authors, the paper reported.
There are more than 4,700 types of these chemicals. The researchers in the study found that there is “consistent evidence for PFAS hepatotoxicity from rodent studies, supported by associations of PFAS and markers of liver function in observational human studies.”
ALT, or alanine aminotransferase, is also elevated in humans with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition in which excess fat builds up in the liver, according to USC. The elevated levels suggest a possible link between PFAS and “the dramatic and unexplained rise in NAFLD in recent years.”
The disease has emerged as a serious public health crisis that affects 25 percent of adults worldwide, the school said. In the U.S., cases are expected to grow to about one-third of all adults by 2030.
“PFAS are ubiquitous, and we know that all adults in the United States have detectable levels of PFAS in their bodies,” said Dr. Leda Chatzi, professor of population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “There is growing interest in the long-term health effects of PFAS exposure, and this study supports that there is evidence that PFAS are associated with liver injury.”
TRENDPOST: For well over two years, the mainstream media massively scared the hell out of the world’s population with its COVID War and the non-scientific risk factors.
Yet, there is little mention of extremely deadly PFAS levels in commonly used products as well as the deadly chemicals, pesticides, preservatives, artificial ingredients and other deadly poisons massively injected into the air, earth, water and what we eat and drink.