Eli5: How do micro plastics get out of our bodies?

Question

I know a lot of people say they don’t but based on what iv seen we consume LOTS of micro plastics iv even seen a study that says we eat a credit cards worth a week if that’s true then there must be some way for our body to remove them since otherwise we’d have too much plastic in us I also heard that there is plastic in our livers and testicles . How does our body remove all of that and how much would donating blood help?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Donating blood helps significantly— there was a recent study on this. IIRC, it removed around 80% of detectable microplastics when donating blood once or twice a month. So…give those plastics to someone else and get a free cookie!