{"id":120832,"date":"2021-03-23T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T03:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/humans-contain-42-mystery-chemicals-which-is-slightly-concerning"},"modified":"2021-03-23T20:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T03:22:29","slug":"humans-contain-42-mystery-chemicals-which-is-slightly-concerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/humans-contain-42-mystery-chemicals-which-is-slightly-concerning","title":{"rendered":"Humans Contain 42 Mystery Chemicals, Which Is Slightly Concerning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humans-contain-42-mystery-chemicals-which-is-slightly-concerning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not really sure where they came from.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Just as you contain multitudes, your body contains multiple chemicals\u2014a total of 109, in fact, including 55 that have never been reported in humans before, and 42 \u201cmystery chemicals\u201d that come from unknown environmental sources, according to a new study from UC San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, which appears in Environmental Science and Technology, scientists revealed the chemicals found in pregnant women\u2019s bodies. They say the chemicals have likely been in there for a while, but high-resolution spectrometry has only just begun to reveal them in detail. To test chemicals, researchers also rely on pure \u201cstandard\u201d samples made by manufacturers, which they can\u2019t always get ahold of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re not really sure where they came from. Just as you contain multitudes, your body contains multiple chemicals\u2014a total of 109, in fact, including 55 that have never been reported in humans before, and 42 \u201cmystery chemicals\u201d that come from unknown environmental sources, according to a new study from UC San Francisco. In the study, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}