Microplastics

topic on 3 shows · 9 statements across 7 episodes

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9 statements about Microplastics, every show

MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Held up
Puri: Companies will launch supplements to remove bodily microplastics
“I also think, by the way, for Plastic Free Everything, that there's gotta be a supplement that people are gonna try to sell that's going to, like, remove the plastic from your balls and your bloodstream. I think people are gonna get on the, you know, Every cat…”
Shaan Puri Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 30:25 6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Study shows tea bags release millions of microplastic particles
“So there was a study this week, That showed millions of measurable microplastic particles from each tea bag.”
David Friedberg Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 1:45:12 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Study finds 328 micrograms of microplastics per gram in human testicles
“Anyway, they got 23, 23 of these balls from these bodies, and they found plastics on average, 328 micrograms per gram of testicle in, in these balls.”
David Friedberg May 24, 2024 ▶ 1:11:11 Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Microplastics in arterial plaque increase mortality risk by 4.5x
“The patients that had plastic in their blood had a four and a half times higher ratio or likelihood of having a heart attack, Stroke or death from any cause.”
David Friedberg Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 1:26:51 E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Microplastics bind to human immune cells and trigger severe inflammation
“These little plastic fragments were binding to dendritic cells and monocytes, key cells in the immune system, and when those cells were bound by plastic, they release these cytokines and the pro-inflammatory signals go through the roof”
David Friedberg Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 1:27:42 E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
ALL-IN Opinion
Chamath: Environmental factors like microplastics alter human biology over time
“I think that it does alter the phenotype of the human body over time, and I think you'd have to be insane to bet against that, and I suspect when you look at the rates of depression and autism and Alzheimer's and dementia and autoimmune diseases, Crohn's, rheu…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 19, 2024 ▶ 1:26:37 E162: Live from Davos! Milei goes viral, Adam Neumann's headwinds, streaming's broken model & more
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Contradicted
Kolbeck: Humans ingest a credit card's worth of microplastics weekly
“The number that I can't get out of my head is five grams or the equivalent of a credit card worth of microplastics that Going to our bodies every week.”
Justin Kolbeck Jun 2, 2022 ▶ 19:58 HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Liedtke: Humans ingest roughly a credit card worth of microplastics weekly
“You could argue that microplastics you're eating based upon your diet, you're eating about a credit card worth of microplastics a week.”
Eric Liedtke May 16, 2022 ▶ 8:19 HIBT Lab! UNLESS Collective: Eric Liedtke
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Liedtke: Studies show babies have twice the microplastics of adults
“What they're finding is double the amounts in our babies because when they check their feces, they're finding double amount of microplastic penetration in their children, in their babies, than they are in adults”
Eric Liedtke May 16, 2022 ▶ 9:09 HIBT Lab! UNLESS Collective: Eric Liedtke

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