[ConservativeMind]

It would seem IBD patients attract 50% more fecal microplastics than everyone else.

Perhaps minimizing them in your home could help with symptoms.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Ken H]

"Microplastics"

[Deaf Smith]

5mm?

Perhaps they meant 5nm?

[Blurb2350]

Coincidentally, Chinese biochemists researching IBD have significantly higher amounts of fecal matter under their fingernails.

[PGR88]

[Yo-Yo]

Microplastics—tiny pieces of plastic less than 5 mm in length –– are everywhere,

Do they know how huge a 5mm piece of plastic is?

[MNDude]

There is a place in the ocean double the size of Texas that is filled with all the plastic bottles tossed in the ocean.90% of this comes from Africa and Asia.

These break down into tiny particles and the fish eat it. Then humans eat the fish.

[lee martell]

Maybe that is the beginning of an explanation for Morgellons
Disease; Skin lesions that appear to have tiny bits of string and fiber coming out of them. Most sufferers are seen as hypochondriacs, afflicted with fibromyalgia or parasites.

[fireman15]

The team obtained fecal samples from 50 healthy people and 52 people with IBD from different geographic regions of China.

I am not sure that a study from China has any relevance to people suffering from similar conditions in this country. It might be that micro-plastics are an issue in the Chinese diet but it may or may not be here.

[bakeneko]

And here I thought this article was about Invester’s Business Daily.

[nickcarraway]

I’m not surprised. People don’t realize how much plastic is in what they eat.

[\/\/ayne]

https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ believes they have the answer.

[DeFault User]

5 mm in length

Another failure of the Carter Administration. Americans don't understand the metric system. What was that telescope lens failure confusing meters with yards or some such?

[enumerated]

5mm in length? Seems kind of stupid to be ingesting chunks of plastic that big.

[Mr Radical]

It would seem to me that what goes in is just as important as what comes out. Did they consider, maybe the control group gets the same amount of microplastic but doesn’t get rid of it?

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

If this is Chinese research it is probably sloppy and likely fraudulent. The “5mm” error certainly indicates the first point is correct.

[moovova]

Well, somethings going on. I excreted a Tervis tumbler, complete with top and straw, the other day.

[AFPhys]

I thought IBD meant “Investor’s Business Daily” ... which has been able to give me great indigestion from time to time despite their wonderful reporting.

[Albion Wilde]

Wonder if they cross-referenced their findings to whether those affected also had adequate fiber in their diet. In other words, if low-fiber diets were the cause of not having enough fiber to scrape foreign matter out of the intestines, versus whether some people just have a natural vulnerability regardless of diet.

[kosciusko51]

I pity the people who had the crappy job of looking for micro plastics.