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Invisible plastic discarded long ago—water bottles, candy wrappers, and baby strollers—coats the planet. Plastic is everywhere: floating in the air, in the
Emerging research shows all this plastic dust—termed microplastics—negatively impacts human health. Here’s the good news. Simple things can reduce your exposure.Microplastics are tiny plastic particles < 5 millimeters in diameter. Think sesame seeds or grains of sand. Microplastics are manufactured for products from clothing to cosmetics, even toothpaste. They also are produced when plastic disintegrates from the sun’s radiation or ocean waves.
Skin creams and face washes contain microplastics. While these microplastics don’t pass directly through your skin, toxic chemicals on them can beOur body tries to fight off microplastic particles through natural defenses. Some of it thankfully passes through us. Yet some gets embedded in ourdemonstrate toxicity through oxidative stress which leads to free radical build-up and cell damage. Microplastics can also cause direct cell membrane and DNA damage and abnormal immune responses.
Humans have junked up the world with plastic products for a century. It will take hundreds if not even thousands of years for it to break down. In March 2022, the UN Environmental Assembly adopted ato end plastic pollution. This may be an opportunity to better protect us from plastic’s health risks—if it’s not too late.
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