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In sheep, dietary plastic damaged the testis without a particle ever reaching it, and a missing bacterial metabolite carried the injury instead. Also: a first look inside human ovarian follicular fluid, and a warning that some detections may not be real.
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Human placental tissue and two studies of the kidney converge on mitochondrial damage, work on insulin producing cells finds a separate immune route with a matching signal in people exposed at work, and a review names the gap none of it has closed.
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A pair of autopsy archives from one hospital gives the field its first real before and after, alongside new work on what crosses into a pregnancy and what that does not yet prove.
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What the gut science says most particles do — and where a small change to your routine changes the number.
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The particle binding is real. It is also not the reason to take it every day.
Read articleA blockbuster heart drug just failed a massive trial. The reflexive takeaway — “inflammation doesn’t matter” — is exactly backwards. And the reaction exposes a double standard hiding in plain sight.
Nick Norwitz MD PhD | StayCurious Metabolism
What it means to live inside a material our biology never met
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A plain-language walk through what animal and cell studies are showing when microplastic exposure lands in the gut
Read articleA practical, myth-busting guide to nutrition. Learn what actually matters for heart health—cut through the noise on fats, cholesterol, seed oils, and blood sugar.
Nick Norwitz MD PhD | StayCurious Metabolism
Mucus, microbes, gut wall — a plain-language tour of where the science says most of it goes, and what the small fraction left behind is doing
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An honest ledger of the science, split between the parts that hold up and the parts that don't yet
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And a study out last month showed it can change what the placenta does
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