Are microplastics stealing your gains? Plus, CrossFit athlete’s cause of death revealed

Are microplastics stealing your gains? Plus, CrossFit athlete’s cause of death revealed

Author: Jim McDonald November 13, 2024 Duration: 57:35
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Plastic was supposed to be inert, right? I mean, it wasn’t supposed to be able to cause real problems for humans, except maybe the whole issue of disposing of them. But plastics are a lot more complicated than that, and microplastics, tiny little fragments of plastic material, are apparently everywhere. And there’s not as inert as we hoped. Are they messing with our hormones? Making us fat? Squashing our test levels? This topic is really just beginning to be studied, but we talk through some of the implications.  

Also, CrossFit athlete Lazar Ðukić’s cause of death has been revealed in the past few days and the answer may have major implications for the future of CrossFit and the Games.  
Listener resources:  

Report on the death of Lazar Ðukić: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCOdZ-8sdnv/?igsh=cjZ4dGs3MGpuMGQ1  

Detection of microplastics in the human penis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-024-00930-6  

Microplastics in human semen. We found that microplastics were detected in all semen samples” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38802004/  

Obesogens: a unifying theory for the global rise in obesity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-024-01460-3#:~:text=Obesogen%20exposure%20during%20development%2C%20in,pancreas%2C%20GI%20tract%20and%20liver  

Lab animals getting fatter  https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2010.1890    

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