Where do micro/nanoplastics store in the human body? What are the detriments/ramifications?
In: Biology
Microplastics are “stored” everywhere in the body. They have been found in blood, breast milk, the placenta of a fetus, and in every different tissue in the human body. This means there’s a variety of ways they can be introduced into the body, and once they’re inside, they just go wherever they go. It doesn’t seem like the body tries to do anything with them, so it’s just wherever it ends up is where it’s stored.
As for the ramifications, we don’t know. The concept of microplastics being inside of our bodies is relatively new, and there just hasn’t been adequate research on it. It’s a very difficult thing to research and finding what effects microplastics might have will likely take a long time. Proving cause and effect in medicine/biology is a VERY arduous process.
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