Drinking Water

[BYH]

You're not joking.

The MSNBC piece this morning was tagged with the reporter telling about a story he did 4 years ago. The male fish in a Colorado river were turning female. The reason: Estrogen in the water.

Any idea how many women are on Hormone Replacement Therapy in this country? And Estrogen is one of those things that most definitely comes out in urine.

I know that because fertility drugs are made from 100% menopausal women's pee.

Enjoy the Estrogen, fellas.

Damn you to hell Luggie. I'm going to have the phrase "100% menopausal women's pee" in my head all damn afternoon.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

I'll admit it, reading this made me cry. Probably from a lack of sleep, but I did just drink a gallon of water and sit to pee.

Front to back or back to front?

BRILLIANT!

 

[friend of a friend]

I'll admit it, reading this made me cry. Probably from a lack of sleep, but I did just drink a gallon of water and sit to pee.

Front to back or back to front?

BRILLIANT!

Sorry for the threadjack, but BBAM, Grimace has been all over the board today. He ever answer your challenge?

 

[rico_the_redneck]

An article about this subject appeared in one of the news magazines about a year ago. I was taking Environmental Econ at the time and it grossed me out. We talked about fish changing sexes from the hormones and the prof joked about sharks being less inclined to eat humans because they were getting their Prozac and not as depressed. Not sure why the AP etc. is just now picking up on this story ... the story our prof showed us was in Newsweek I believe.

Coincidentally, the prof's hubby was an engineer for a local water system. I asked her what they did at her house ... she said they just used a cheap Britta filter on their faucet ... her take was that the trace amounts of these drugs wouldn't affect humans ... and there is no known way to get the drugs out of the water, so we're ****ed anyway ... gotta drink water!!!

 

[PHINJ]

Great job by Rick Pienciak's crew at AP.

 

[Lugnuts]

An article about this subject appeared in one of the news magazines about a year ago. I was taking Environmental Econ at the time and it grossed me out. We talked about fish changing sexes from the hormones and the prof joked about sharks being less inclined to eat humans because they were getting their Prozac and not as depressed. Not sure why the AP etc. is just now picking up on this story ... the story our prof showed us was in Newsweek I believe.

Coincidentally, the prof's hubby was an engineer for a local water system. I asked her what they did at her house ... she said they just used a cheap Britta filter on their faucet ... her take was that the trace amounts of these drugs wouldn't affect humans ... and there is no known way to get the drugs out of the water, so we're ****ed anyway ... gotta drink water!!!

I guess you could be drinking it bottled from somewhere other than the Eastern Seaboard. I mean how ****ed are Jersey and Philly?

New Mexico, on the other hand, tested negative for everything.

The only problem with the bottled water is that it contains BPA and the bottles are horrible for the enivornment.

Funny you mention the Brita filter. I did a lot of research on this awhile back, and a simple Brita filter in a pitcher did the best job of clearing out metals like lead, mercury, etc. And no, the plastic pitchers do not contain BPA.

 

[Bubbler]

Meh. Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

Gotta go. Sale on A-cup bras at Victoria's Secret!

 

[expendable]

Meh. Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

Gotta go. Sale on A-cup bras at Victoria's Secret!

Yeah, if I sprout a couple up top, my biggest problem might be that I'll have to make do on my promise to never leave the house.