You could give blood, use mechanisms to capture bile, and hope staying hydrated can help your kidneys to by chance get rid of more, but otherwise, it comes down to cell breakdown and time. Our best bet seems to be source-reduction, but a large amount of household dust is from fine plastics, such as synthetic clothes and carpet naturally breaking down.
Consider high-filtration filter options for forced air and vacuums and frequent dusting and vacuuming.
The plastic differential in premature versus normal term placentas is striking. It was described as “significantly higher” in “microplastics and nanoplastics.”
Stupid article
5 micrometers or less, not millimeters
Bottled water, dairy products, juices, soft drinks, etc. in plastics may not be such a great idea.
Out of all the things that we have to worry about, nano plastics tops my list. Cumulative production of plastics since 1950 (when there were essentially zero plastics produced) is close to 10 BILLION tons, more than one ton per living human. Current global production rate is 0.4 billion tons/year.
In another article about microplastics, I was surprised at the upper end of the size-range of what is considered ‘microplastics’ (2mm, if I remember correctly). The article focused on the alarming amount of microplastics in the oceans - I’m thinking in order to dramatize the amount, they may have seen fit to be more inclusive by expanding the size-range.
I would be curious to know the size-range of the plastic particles found in these placentas - since knowing that would help narrow down the likely source, i.e., confirm that it was from household dust arising from synthetic clothing and bedsheets, rug fibers, etc..- and suggest what filters might mitigate the problem.
If you thing a quarter inch is small, stop shoving pop bottles into your arm.
‘Significantly higher’ without number and confidence interval means NOTHING but junk science, which is this ‘study’ (not) is.
But keep posting those hysterical ‘findings’, they help showing how bad the anti plastic pseudo-science is.
I hadn't considered this, thank you. Time to install that bag filter with the FAU blower on a timer I've been contemplating for the last 25 years. We heat the house with wood, so we don't need the blower for anything else.
I did not see any definition of “high” in the source. It just said “higher” than in the blood.
Means little.
The air pressure at the top of Mount Everest is much higher than the air pressure at 30,000 feet.
Higher or Lower are relative terms. It is a way of lying with statistics.
I would love to see absolute numbers if someone can find them for this article.
>> Research has shown exposure to plastics in general is harmful to both the environment and humans. <<
Not really. It’s basically a mere presumption. The author feels safe in making this assertion because some plastic somewhere has proven harmful; a big plastic bouncy ball lodged in your throat can’t be good, right? And it COULD be REALLY bad, maybe?