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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The problem is that we don’t fully understand all the consequences of microplastics because we’ve only known about them for a few years, but from what I’ve read so far, the preliminary conclusions are “they are not healthy”.
Stuff like gut inflammation (so IBS etc.), erectile problems, fertility problems, possibly even neurological issues (yes, we have microplastics in our brains).
The full impacts of this will only be understood in the coming decades.
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