The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
We're talking like there's a massive exposure to humans today, cumulatively to these phthalates. I've never heard many people talk about this in seed oils and whether this is coming from the processing or the storage in the plastic containers.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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In this paper, they do the calculated average estrogenic equivalent of several major phthalates in edible oils. It falls into the range of 2.7 to 958.1 nanograms of estradiol per liter, 45 to 396 times those in bottled water.