{"id":173843,"date":"2023-10-09T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/common-plastic-additive-linked-to-autism-and-adhd-scientists-discover"},"modified":"2023-10-09T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:22:53","slug":"common-plastic-additive-linked-to-autism-and-adhd-scientists-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/common-plastic-additive-linked-to-autism-and-adhd-scientists-discover","title":{"rendered":"Common Plastic Additive Linked to Autism And ADHD, Scientists Discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/common-plastic-additive-linked-to-autism-and-adhd-scientists-discover2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of kids being diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-spectrum-disorder\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">autism spectrum disorder<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-spectrum-disorder\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">ASD<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-adhd\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">attention deficit hyperactivity disorder<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-adhd\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">ADHD<\/a>) has risen sharply in recent decades, and a new study points to the common plastic additive <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bisphenol_A\">bisphenol A<\/a> (BPA) as a potential reason why.<\/p>\n<p>BPA is used in a lot of plastics and plastic production processes, and can also be found inside food and drink cans. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hormone-disrupting-chemical-detected-in-90-of-europeans-research-shows\">previous research<\/a> has also linked it to health issues involving hormone disruption, including breast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a> and infertility.<\/p>\n<p>In this new study, researchers from Rowan University and Rutgers University in the US looked at three groups of children: 66 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-spectrum-disorder\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">autism<\/a>, 46 with ADHD, and 37 neurotypical kids. In particular, they analyzed the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glucuronidation\">glucuronidation<\/a>, a chemical process the body uses to clear out toxins within the blood through urine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of kids being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has risen sharply in recent decades, and a new study points to the common plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA) as a potential reason why. BPA is used in a lot of plastics and plastic production processes, and can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173843","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}