Name: How Much Plastic Is Actually Inside You?
Uploaded: 2026-01-15T16:57:31.000Z
Duration: 3 min 47 s
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Did you know that every time you eat, drink and inhale, you consume tiny, microscopic pieces of plastic?

While some of the plastic leaves your body when you exhale or go to the bathroom, the rest remains inside of you.

This parasitic plastic discovery set off alarm bells in the scientific community.

And researchers set out determine exactly how much we are ingesting and if it's causing any harm.

Microplastics are particles smaller than 5 millimeters that have broken off from larger plastic objects.

These tiny particles are everywhere in water, dust, clothes, produce, agriculture, you name it.

You are a warehouse of water bottle bits.

This is one reason why it's hard to determine exactly how much we consume.

And no, it's not a credit card size amount.

The actual amount depends on where you live, what you eat, where water comes from, and

In one study on the American diet, researchers estimated that each person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles each year from food and drink alone.

When they took breathing into account, these numbers jumped to 74,000 and 122,000 particles a year.

And if you only drink water from plastic bottles, add another 90,000 particles to that worst case scenario, this translates to about 580 microplastic particles a day.

That's sounds like a lot, but again, some of it will find its way out.

Scientists have found microplastics everywhere in the human body, including livers, hearts, placentas, testicles, limb joints, blood vessels, bone marrow, and

This means that these particles can leave the lungs and GI tract and enter tissues and cells.

So far, researchers haven't definitively proven that microplastics cause health problems in humans, but

For instance, some of these chemicals in plastics are known to disrupt the endocrine system, which makes hormones that control growth and development, metabolism, mood, and

In addition, animal studies have indicated that microplastics can cause oxidative damage, DNA damage, and

changes in gene activity, all of which are known risk factors for cancer.

And a recent study on humans found that patients with microplastics in their corroded artery plaque were more likely to have a heart attack, stroke, or die.

By now, I'm sure you're all wondering how to avoid microplastics.

you can start by using only glass, wood and metal items when you cook and eat, getting a HEPA filter, and

The truth is though, plastic is everywhere.

Plastic Playland is actually just Earth and you can never leave this theme park.

But if we really want to be plastic free, we need to figure out ways to end our reliance on it and clean up the existing plastic pollution in the sea, land and air.

Because why is it your fault for any of this?

These companies made you believe that you were responsible responsible for recycling everything and handling all of it.

It's their product and they should share most if not all of the blame.

So do you think you can survive in a plastic free world?

Let me know in the comment section below or tell me what we should talk about next.

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