Microplastics
topic on 3 shows · 9 statements across 7 episodes
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9 statements about Microplastics, every show
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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”
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…”
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.”