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Science
What happens after you swallow microplastics
From gastric acid to biliary excretion, tracing the gut journey the literature can and cannot yet describe.
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Science
Mapping microplastics in the human body
An honest inventory of what researchers have actually found, where, and how they knew it was plastic
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Research Digests
Atlas Research Digest: What the body does with the plastic it can't break down
Several of the strongest new studies describe a body that files microplastics away in the very cells meant to clear them, and the opening question of what that storage costs.
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kathrynkellogg.substack.com
The Plastic Problem Shrunk. Literally.
As Plastic Free July comes to an end, I’m curious: did you participate this year?
Kathryn Kellogg | Going Zero Waste
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Science
Nano vs micro: where the biology fundamentally changes
Same plastic. Different size. Very different biology.
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Solutions
Psyllium is having a moment. Here's what it actually does.
A fiber supplement people love — and where a probiotic sits alongside it
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staycuriousmetabolism.substack.com
How To Heal 20 Years of Gut Damage in 30 Days
When I was 21, I was diagnosed with severe inflammatory bowel disease. It took me years to figure out how to heal my gut. Today, I’m sharing the science and strategies I wish I’d known from day one.
Nick Norwitz MD PhD | StayCurious Metabolism
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Health
Plastic in your arteries: what those headlines really mean
Reading the NEJM heart-attack study without the panic
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Research Digests
Atlas Research Digest: The particles we have not been counting
The findings that stood out, and why the one that matters most is that our instruments have probably been undercounting the smallest particles all along.
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Health
Can microplastics affect your mood?
The gut-brain axis, plastic exposure, and what the research does and doesn't say
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Health
Plastic in the brain: reading past the headlines
The Nature Medicine study, the dementia link, and what a careful reader should actually take from it
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Solutions
Water filters and microplastics: what actually works
Reading the claims on the box against the actual research
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