It feels like every few weeks i see an article about microplastics being in the human body. As i understand plastics are inert so why do we expect them to be any more harmful than normal dust?
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Plastics are made primarily of the sane chemicals and atoms as we are. H O C N and some other stuff.
They are put together differently…but sometimes not that differently. That’s where the problems begin.
When we shake hands two people hold out their right hands…what if one holds out their left hand…it looks the same, but doesn’t work the same.
Plastics can mimick molecules the cell needs. Especially one end and that gets plugged into something that the cell was counting on.
Now I’ve been learning about zombie cells. We understand that cancer cells are corrupted cells that become voracious…but more often these mistakes are just dysfunctional and merely take up space. It happens a lot, apparently that’s why we age. Our bodies get filled with nonfunctional cells.
Now add in micro plastics….
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