Plastic Usage Can Cause Type 2 Diabetes

Plastic Usage Can Cause Type 2 Diabetes:
Diabetes is a chronic disease in which blood glucose levels are too high. It occurs when the body loses the ability to produce insulin or to use it correctly, and suffering from it causes vascular problems, heart attacks, kidney failure, blindness, amputations, strokes or kidney damage.
There are two types of diabetes:
Type 1 diabetes: Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas that helps glucose enter the cells and thus obtain energy to make our body work, is decreased, and its secretion can become null when that organ stops working.
Type 2 diabetes: there is insulin, but its receptors fail. Although it is in the bloodstream, glucose cannot enter the target cells, and its concentration in the blood rises. In both cases, hyperglycemia occurs.

It is known that it is a multifactorial disease; that is, several factors promote the development of type 2 diabetes, such as obesity or overweight, family history, sedentary lifestyle or poor eating habits. However, a recent study carried out by a group of researchers from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies, The National Autonomous University of Mexico, found a very particular connection between this disease and the use of certain types of plastics containing bisphenol A.

This compound has been widely used, since the 1960s, to make polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins in the production of baby bottles, some store and supermarket receipts, and plastic materials used in medicine, dentistry and food containers. Epoxy resins are used to coat the interior of metal products such as food cans, bottle caps, and water pipes.
Some research has shown that bisphenol A in packaging can get into food or drink. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, advises against microwaving or dishwashing polycarbonate plastic containers because plastic can break down over time and allow bisphenol A to leach into food.

Bisphenol A has been studied before due to its possible relationship with the development of specific hormonal alterations and some types of cancer, but until now, little had been correlated with other chronic-degenerative diseases, according to the researcher from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies.

Researchers began to review the literature due to the indiscriminate use of plastic containers to transport and store food, which, when heated (in microwave ovens), release bisphenol A; This is how the researcher decided to study the compound around type 2 diabetes mellitus.

It was from a pilot study carried out on 500 women from northern Mexico that the group observed that women with diabetes had a greater accumulation of bisphenol A. This was the first time that exposure to this plastic compound was related to the presence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the population.

Bisphenol A's association with diabetes was not based solely on its presence in the blood tests of diagnosed patients, but because the compound is known to be an endocrine disruptor; that is, it alters the hormonal balance of the organism.

The objective of this study shows the basic need to study the mechanisms by which this compound alters glucose homeostasis and propose a reduction of its use and exposure to this compound.

So, if you have diabetes for an unknown reason, then using these plastics could be the possible reason for your diabetes.

Kindly avoid plastics and live healthily.


Reference:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2017/jul/everyday-plastic-chemicals-linked-to-type-2-diabetes-risk-95492171.html