Is there a viable way to actually avoid microplastics?
i wouldn’t be surprised if many insults to human health are not relevant in population that exercises vigorously 5 times a week and have good body composition.
for the average american maybe we are looking for straws that break camels backs that are on the edge of breaking anyways
Have not read the full article but I suspect the dosing and size are unrealistically high.
Smaller particles resulted in fewer obstructions
...and that suggests the whole "nanoplastics" scare is another stupidity which is a moot point anyway because monomers and short-chain polymers are very reactive and unlikely to even persist for long.
This appears to be a poorly done study-- they're showing the mechanical effect of possible blockage, but they haven't shown that microplastics here are any different than particles of other inert substances found in our environment: clays, silt, organic debris, etc. Those have always been in our drinking water and the immune system deals with what gets into us.
People in a few decades will think we were crazy for packaging 100% of our food in plastic, the same way we think putting asbestos everywhere was crazy back then.
The amount of strokes and aneurysms that are gonna happen in 20~50 years is gonna be truly fantastic.