We keep hearing the word “microplastic” in our foods, seas, and ground, but if they do not react with most chemicals, why are they a problem in our bodies? Wouldn’t they just ignore them?
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Asbestos is inert, too. It still causes intense cellular and genetic damage because the nano particles it breaks into are small and sharp enough to literally impale through living cells and entangle itself in DNA. Microplastics may cause analogous mechanical cellular damage. No the particles arent extremely thin pointy crystals like asbestos; but they are still small enough to get caught in the machinery among or inside cells and damage us at the microscopic level.
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