I see your Finnish sauna and counter with a Lakota sweat lodge.
Actually though, I didn’t know that those had those particular health benefits. Pretty neat. I remember reading that some Arctic tribes did sweat lodge/saunas for health/hygiene reasons but they wouldn’t have been concerned about plastic.
It’s a nice thought, but I’m not sure the one plastic eating microbe (that I know of) could survive in the human gut, or what other health ramifications it could have.
It is a problem no doubt, however wild or free-range animals would also show signs of obesity, altered hormones, etc. since this is environmental and not strictly food. I have not see that reported. That said I literally do not trust anything coming out of the main stream (media or medical) anymore, it’s all done to raise Fear/Uncertainty/Doubt; sex and fear sell. For example, have you noticed increased “awareness” of low T now that TRT has become very profitable for the medical establishment?
The elephant in the room here for any type of metabolic disorder is probably seed oils; there’s both correlation and now causation studies indicating how harmful they are, and that is something the western world directly consumes in very large amounts.
I read an interesting article a few weeks ago. It documented how this topic – manhood is waning – has become a mainstream discussion with every new generation for the last 80 years or so. As such, I doubt that it’s a conspiracy.