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Solutions
Can you take something that binds plastic in your gut?
The two mechanisms being studied — living probiotics and non-living fibers — and where the evidence really sits
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Science
The challenge of measuring plastics in humans
What the science can see, what it can’t, and why the honest answer lives between dismissal and alarm
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Exposure
Microplastics in baby-food pouches: what the research actually shows
Where the particles likely come from, why infants are more sensitive to them, and a few simple swaps parents can make today
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Solutions
Designing a product without plastic packaging
Design choices reveal values faster than slogans do. Avoiding plastic packaging was never the easiest path, which is part of why it mattered.
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Exposure
Your kettle, your coffee, and microplastics
What a 2025 study found about polypropylene kettles — and a few simple swaps that sidestep the problem
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Science
Can probiotics help the body handle BPA and phthalates?
What in vitro studies, animal models, and one human dataset suggest about probiotics and plastic-associated endocrine disruptors
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Science
What happens when food and drinks are heated in plastic
A closer look at what heat does to the plastic touching your food, across the kitchen moments we rarely think about
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Solutions
Why Winnow uses raw potato starch
The thinking behind one of the most easily overlooked parts of the formula
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Health
Plastic chemicals and your sleep
What the phthalate and BPA research suggests about your circadian rhythm
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Science
Do probiotics survive stomach acid?
What the evidence actually shows
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Solutions
Why personal solutions still matter in a systemic problem
Systemic problems require systemic change. But that does not make personal action meaningless. The most honest response is to hold both truths at once.
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Health
Is plastic quietly rewiring your hormones?
Why scientists are starting to call microplastics endocrine disruptors — and what that means for your thyroid, stress, and weight
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