Prozac

Annalee Newitz, to which many people take Prozac antidepressant containing traces of the drug are displayed in the Great Lakes region of the United States, where the bacteria due to die. Microbiologist Steve Mauro has samples of water from the Great Lakes in Erie, Pennsylvania, studied, and found that Prozac fluoxetine ingredient is to kill e. coli, a common bacterium that lives in many places, including the human gut.

Rachel Kaufman writes in National Geographic:

What’s surprising is where comes from the drug. Fluoxetine is of the opinion that inland waterways after passing through the body and excreted in the urine. And pill users with not used in the receiver pills can add to the problem. Wastewater treatment plants filter generally not of the substance.

But near the Presque Isle on Lake Erie State Park, where we found water samples with fluoxetine, “has no particular consequences.” There is a direct damage is located somewhere in the vicinity of the beaches, water estuary, “said Mauro. This means that fluoxetine probably stretches out over the Lake, he added.

Previous studies have suggested that the fluoxetine tiny sea creatures such as molluscs, such as the brain of harmful fish. Eventually, Mauro discovery testing more persons that drugs can affect the environment indirectly, unexpected. Our bodies are part of the ecosystem in a fundamental way.

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