PFOA and ulcerative colitis

Food for thought. Environmental factors have been linked to Ulcerative Colitis. In the last few years I have stumbled across a few studies linking PFAs and UC. All started out on a Netflix special about DuPont and 3M. Following the largest human study ever on the effects of chemical exposure on a population, Ulcerative Colitis was one of many diseases with higher incidence due to contaminated water supply near a dupont plant that processed PFAs. Interestingly, food packaging contains PFAS and they are basically ubiquitous in our environment (forever chemicals).

https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/article/14/supplement_1/s138/5705603

https://journals.lww.com/environepidem/fulltext/2019/10001/ulcerative_colitis,_crohn_s_disease_and_other.1369.aspx

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/pfas-synthetic-chemicals-water-toxic/

I don't claim to know a lot about it but the main application for Dupont/3M was Teflon prior to that particular chemical being banned.

dmger14 said...
I’ve got UC a few times in the past 5 years or so and always drink water from an old Gatorade bottle during workouts. Sometimes it sits in my car in hot sun, but I do rinse before filling. Not doing that anymore. Could that be what set off my flares?

Impossible to say