What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
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#2The numerous spiders you swallow in your sleep will take care of that.
Re: What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
#3The numerous spiders you swallow in your sleep will take care of that.
Apparently it's a myth https://www.sleep.org/sleep-questions/debunking-sleep-myths-...
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#4A startup selling probiotics containing plastic-eating bacteria, anyone?
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#5A startup selling probiotics containing plastic-eating bacteria, anyone?
As long as you don't spill any and wake up tomorrow with all the plastic in your house eaten.
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#7A startup selling probiotics containing plastic-eating bacteria, anyone?
As long as you don't spill any and wake up tomorrow with all the plastic in your house eaten.
1. Make plastic baby potties.
2. Sell baby food with "probiotic bacteria guarding babies internally against plastic pollution".
3. Profit.
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#8This article conflates particles of any size, and often does not even mention sizes, e.g., '28 particles' in a serving of beer? That is imprecise (doesn't mention size) and wrong: probably way to little, as nano particles are used in filtering (clarifying) beer.
The articles also doesn't really tell me how to avoid all that plastic. If 40 percent of human diet contains plastic, then there's hope, so which 60 percent do not contain plastic? This would be really helpful to check my own diet for surprises. E.g., I drink only craft beer and make my own ketchup, in order to avoid nano plastics -- but what elephant do I miss?
The problem is really serious, so articles about this should take more care to be helpful.
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#9A startup selling probiotics containing plastic-eating bacteria, anyone?
I wonder how much evolution pressure you must exert onto a living thing for it to start consuming something as complex as plastic. And how many generations past time they are not in the lab anymore they figure out there’s simpler solutions to nutrition, especially in the gut.
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#10The numerous spiders you swallow in your sleep will take care of that.
Plastic Bertrand, who eats 500 credit cards daily, is an outlier and should not have been counted