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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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Posts tagged “nanoplastics”
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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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Nano vs micro: where the biology fundamentally changes
Same plastic. Different size. Very different biology.
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Plastic in your arteries: what those headlines really mean
Reading the NEJM heart-attack study without the panic
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Can microplastics affect your mood?
The gut-brain axis, plastic exposure, and what the research does and doesn't say
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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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What microplastics do — and don’t do — to your skin
The barrier, the exposure routes, and what the research is honest about
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Microplastics, follicular fluid, and IVF: What the first human studies actually show
Plastic particles have now been reported in the fluids that surround eggs and sperm. The harder question is whether they are simply present, or whether they are beginning to interfere with fertilization itself.
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Why detox is the wrong word
A steadier kind of support for a plastic filled world
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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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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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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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