The Science of Microplastic Binding

What happens when particles meet the gut microbiome

A plain-language walk through what animal and cell studies are showing when microplastic exposure lands in the gut

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

An honest ledger of the science, split between the parts that hold up and the parts that don't yet

From gastric acid to biliary excretion, tracing the gut journey the literature can and cannot yet describe.

An honest inventory of what researchers have actually found, where, and how they knew it was plastic

Same plastic. Different size. Very different biology.

What the science can see, what it can’t, and why the honest answer lives between dismissal and alarm

What in vitro studies, animal models, and one human dataset suggest about probiotics and plastic-associated endocrine disruptors

A closer look at what heat does to the plastic touching your food, across the kitchen moments we rarely think about

What the evidence actually shows

A question we sometimes see, and what the literature actually supports.

The overlooked stream where your body meets what it ingests