Re:Landmark study links microplastics to serious health prob...
by berner on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:26PM
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Smoking seems like it could be linked to absorption via the lungs either through damage or willingness to spend time in outdoor environments most would avoid.
Of course there could be many other reasons for that correlation, so it would certainly be nice to at least know how the plastic was absorbed.
In this case, they find that those with lots of microplastics also have high inflammation. So, are the microplastics: A. causing the inflammation, or B. microplastics following a path from the gut to the rest of the body due to pre-existing inflammation causing epithelial (surface) cells to be compromised, C. a feedback loop involving A and B.