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Solutions
"Good in. Bad out." — the philosophy behind Winnow
How a four-word idea became the way we think about the gut, the world, and the product we built for it.
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Research Digests
Atlas Research Digest: The damage arrived where the plastic did not
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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Solutions
How to actually use a probiotic when microplastics are on your mind
Fermented foods, single-strain capsules, and the small daily choices the evidence supports.
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Exposure
Cutting boards: wood vs plastic
What the research says about the humble kitchen surface you use every day
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Solutions
What real progress against plastic pollution looks like
Not a single breakthrough, but four kinds of change working at once.
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Exposure
Compostable, biodegradable, reusable: reading the labels honestly
Better materials are better. They are not perfect. And no material choice takes back what is already in the food and water you have had this week.
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Science
The people working on the plastic problem
A quiet look at the labs and programs building the science of microplastics, one careful measurement at a time.
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Health
Microplastics and inflammation: what the data shows
Inflammation is the most common biological signal in the microplastic literature. The scientific work is not detecting it. It is telling the meaningful signals apart from the noise.
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Exposure
Microplastics in seafood
Where the particles concentrate, why bivalves and small fish carry more, and how to keep seafood on the plate
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Research Digests
Atlas Research Digest: Different organs, one failing part of the cell
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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Exposure
Synthetic clothing and the plastic you breathe indoors
Your closet, your couch, and your laundry room are quietly shedding into the air you breathe at home.
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Solutions
Everyday choices that protect your gut from plastic exposure
Five small changes the microbiome research actually supports — and two panics it doesn't.
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