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Don A in Pennsultucky's avatar

Earlier today I read about a new treatment protocol for preeclampsia which entails injecting mRNA directly into the placenta which increases blood flow. Still in the experimental stage but promising.

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Jane van Dis's avatar

I have been thinking and researching this for years now. While no disease process is one thing, we saw with COVID that placentas were showing increased inflammation due to infection and alongside, increased rates of Pre-Eclampsia. Since I've been an obstetrician, the rates of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy have skyrocketed, the last longitudinal study showing a 2.2% increase per year. Data from 2021-23 hasn't been available (emails I've sent to key researchers on this have gone unanswered). I will make the argument that the inflammation that starts in the placenta, damages all those tiny capillaries, is coming from petrochemicals. Whether fossil fuel air pollution as PM2.5, whether as micro- and nanoplastics, and as PFAS, phthalates, and phenols infiltrate our maternal bodies. These petrochemicals are damaging every organ in our body, the New Mexico study showing 0.5% by weight plastic in decedants' brains. They are causing infertility, hypertension, metabolic changes that affect obesity and diabetes rates, they are linked to autism, and ADHD. There are over 7000 studies showing the effects of these plastics and their endocrine disrupting chemicals. And yet on the news this morning a recirculation of the very much discredited idea that vaccines cause autism. Of course fossil fuels and petrochemical are causing these health effects. Why isn't it regulated if there is this much data? Why are our agencies captured? The chemical industry is 20% of our GDP, and 12% of all global oil goes into plastics, and it is 6% of our GDP. Until and unless we address the literal elephant in the room, we will continue to see stories like those of Ms. Mack above. At a time when women are mad about modern medicine and wanting to go back to a more 'natural' childbirth model, women are sicker and sicker due to these chemicals. Every obstetrician would love nothing more than to have low risk, minimally invasive, normal vaginal deliveries. Our modern pollution will never allow.

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