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Most vitamins and dietary supplements pass through your body and end up only being partially absorbed. This, as some have argued, have made American the land of the people with the most expensive piss in the world.
That in itself isn't all that interesting, however when you take into account that all this piss ends up (for the most part) back into our watersheds, and so our reservoirs, trace amounts of these vitamins and dietary supplements show up in our drinking water.
Now, forget about vitamins and dietary supplements and replace that with "prescription drugs" and do a test for their appropriate levels in tap-water. Even though filtering processes remove almost everything (down to the parts-per-billion or trillion level) we can identify their presence.
Run tests for different reservoirs and what drugs show up in the water will roughly reflect what drugs those area-people take.
(This is from a much larger (also alarmist) FoxNews article. Link at the bottom of the post)
_Officials in Philadelphia said testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems. Sixty-three pharmaceuticals or byproducts were found in the city's watersheds.
_Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications were detected in a portion of the treated drinking water for 18.5 million people in Southern California.
_Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed a Passaic Valley Water Commission drinking water treatment plant, which serves 850,000 people in Northern New Jersey, and found a metabolized angina medicine and the mood-stabilizing carbamazepine in drinking water.
_A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water.
_The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested positive for six pharmaceuticals.
_Three medications, including an antibiotic, were found in drinking water supplied to Tucson, Ariz.
Now, I certainly don't think I'm above the level of a good gay joke when the opportunity presents itself and so I'd like to point out that "A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water."
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Of all places, of all drugs.... Sex Hormones in San Fransisco. Because the two most prescribed sex hormones are Testosterone and Estrogen, and because Estrogen is much more widely prescribed than Testosterone, we can safely assume that this is what they were referring to when saying"A sex hormone."
Why would enough Estrogen show up in the water to be detectable? Why would enough people in San Fransisco take Estrogen for it show up in tests?
Maybe San Fransisco is a city with a large population of menopausal women, who take Estrogen to relieve their symptoms?
Or maybe San Fransisco is a city with a large population of people like the guy on the left in blue:
Link to FoxNews article
That in itself isn't all that interesting, however when you take into account that all this piss ends up (for the most part) back into our watersheds, and so our reservoirs, trace amounts of these vitamins and dietary supplements show up in our drinking water.
Now, forget about vitamins and dietary supplements and replace that with "prescription drugs" and do a test for their appropriate levels in tap-water. Even though filtering processes remove almost everything (down to the parts-per-billion or trillion level) we can identify their presence.
Run tests for different reservoirs and what drugs show up in the water will roughly reflect what drugs those area-people take.
(This is from a much larger (also alarmist) FoxNews article. Link at the bottom of the post)
_Officials in Philadelphia said testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems. Sixty-three pharmaceuticals or byproducts were found in the city's watersheds.
_Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications were detected in a portion of the treated drinking water for 18.5 million people in Southern California.
_Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed a Passaic Valley Water Commission drinking water treatment plant, which serves 850,000 people in Northern New Jersey, and found a metabolized angina medicine and the mood-stabilizing carbamazepine in drinking water.
_A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water.
_The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested positive for six pharmaceuticals.
_Three medications, including an antibiotic, were found in drinking water supplied to Tucson, Ariz.
Now, I certainly don't think I'm above the level of a good gay joke when the opportunity presents itself and so I'd like to point out that "A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water."
......
Of all places, of all drugs.... Sex Hormones in San Fransisco. Because the two most prescribed sex hormones are Testosterone and Estrogen, and because Estrogen is much more widely prescribed than Testosterone, we can safely assume that this is what they were referring to when saying"A sex hormone."
Why would enough Estrogen show up in the water to be detectable? Why would enough people in San Fransisco take Estrogen for it show up in tests?
Maybe San Fransisco is a city with a large population of menopausal women, who take Estrogen to relieve their symptoms?
Or maybe San Fransisco is a city with a large population of people like the guy on the left in blue:
Link to FoxNews article
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