Veritasium has a video about it on YouTube.
It’s very informative and may just give you the fix you’re looking for
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psoul@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Can someone tell me microplastics do to the body? I’m almost to afraid to ask at this point.
maximumbird@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
IIRC the one thing we are sure of is that they don’t break down, nor do they get out. So you better hope they don’t do anything bad on top of that
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Probably do the same thing most of the junk humans dump into the environment. Reduce average lifespan, cause diseases and reduced fertility.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
That’s the neat thing: nobody can. It’s incredibly hard to devise a study that can show anything about it. There is no way to get a human without microplastics in them to get a control group, and by this point as far as I know there is no plausible theory to get a specific study.
Everyone kinda suspects that it can’t be good for you, simultaneously there is zero actual evidence that something is ever happening. We don’t know, and that’s very frustrating.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
It seems like they’d be fairly inert. Although that’s certainly no guarantee that they’re not really bad for you. Much like inert gas, the danger could well be them replacing or getting in the way of something else.