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Morning all. Well I saw on this mornings breakfast news that there is a link to Micro plastics and Dementia. Clinical research has found that micro plastics have been found in the brain (which contains a large amount of fat), which explains why my history teacher in the day called me a fat head (perhaps she knew). Seriously though, I myself suspect a high proportion of us have modelled since a kid, I'm now just shy of 56. My overriding thought was am I inhaling some of those microplastics that i/we are creating by the virtue of the hobby. Apparently the most effective ingress to the brain is via the nose. Although I now see an excuse to grow excessive nasal hair as more of an effective filter, I think my wife will have other ideas. 

 

Wear a mask I hear you're thinking, but after literally a life time of sanding usually peering over the subject, perhaps closer as the eye sight has aged, it's just a thought.

 

Now for balance and being pragmatic. Unless we have the kit so close to your face then ingestion surely will be minimal but ingestion nonetheless. I just felt compelled to communicate the findings (at the moment) and therefore awareness. 

 

Going back into the shadows...

 

Steve.

Edited by Stevepd
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Its pretty much in everything we eat, in the water, etc...

My wife is all about natural foods, living longer and that kind of stuff, and she replaced all of our plastic "Tupperware"  with glass, since apparently heating up food, storing food or eating from plastic anything is a source for it. I'm a bit fatalistic about it as well. I kind of figure at this point in my life, considering my exposure through food, water, hobby, breathing, that I probably have about an LSP's worth, at least, in the cracks and crevices.  I have inhaled everything from styrene to resin while not wearing a mask (not to mention my parents second hand smoke well into my teens) but the  "it won't happen to me" mindset has prevailed. With everything in our environment these days, and about a 50 percent chance of developing some form of cancer, who can say what will and won't necessarily be the cause of out demise? If I have turned my brain to tossed salad through modeling, well at least its been something I have enjoyed doing, and hopefully I have a few good years left before something really terrible hits. There is one absolute, and its that we don't get out of life alive, but hopefully, somewhat compos mentis. Though with the way I buy kits  but not build anything,  it may already be too late..!

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1 hour ago, mozart said:

I’m nudging 77, I’m fatalistic about it Steve….something’s going to get me; whether it’s a heart attack on the golf course or through ingesting microplastic, fumes from my favourite MRP lacquers or whatever, I really don’t care as long as I’m having fun! 

 

Max, there is no way your 77!? Didn't look over 60 when you picked up the Sea Fury. 

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Do not forget the correlation of stress and

dementia.  Huge amount of stress for me when an almost perfect model is almost done and the canopy is perfect but I have to glue it on.  This can give me a huge stress headache with stars.  On the other hand this scenario only happens way less often than once a year.  :rofl:
 

Blood pressure medication should mitigate with that.  

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My first career from 1981 until 1990 was an autobody repairman.  I cannot fathom how much plastic I took in sanding body fillers.  Majority of the time I wore a mask, but even with that, we had to blow out the “Bondo boogers” at the end of the work day.  
If I’m still kicking at 62, you lifetime model builders ain’t got squat to worry about.  And remember to throw in my childhood years of 7 to 15 building models and then back at it for the past 26 years.  
 

But FWIW, I changed careers after watching my coworkers age at a tremendous rate and suffering heart attacks early in life.  I had one coworker I would have sworn was 58-60+ yo.  He was 45.  It was hard and dirty work that OSHA paid no attention to.  About the time I was getting out of it things started to change and body shops were being targeted by the EPA with basic things like spraying lacquer thinner into the air to clean paint guns.  That brought us the paint gun cleaning system that was in an enclosed cabinet. 
I’m sure that attention brought in OSHA as well.  

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2 hours ago, ScottsGT said:

My first career from 1981 until 1990 was an autobody repairman.  I cannot fathom how much plastic I took in sanding body fillers.  Majority of the time I wore a mask, but even with that, we had to blow out the “Bondo boogers” at the end of the work day.  
If I’m still kicking at 62, you lifetime model builders ain’t got squat to worry about.  And remember to throw in my childhood years of 7 to 15 building models and then back at it for the past 26 years.  

Yup!! After a lifetime of breathing in and being exposed to varsol, dirty lubricants, iron rust dust, aluminium dust, carb dip, recreational stuff, bondo dust...and a whole bunch of other toxic stuff, it's not micro plastic that's going to take me out.🤧💀😄

 

Don

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