I'm wondering if the plastics in modern clothing are similarly exposing our systems to microplastics -- maybe not as bad as cooking in plastic, but a constant light abrasion all day, every day, for your whole life.

Our biologies didn't evolve with these synthetics. Not a big stretch to think our biologies won't handle them well.

Until we get any evidence of it, I'd say the answer is no, it doesn't.

Home dust is visibly composed out of those too and it takes just a bit of sunlight to see them dance mid air in non-small numbers. It would be impossible to not breathe them in, or swallow some on food.

I bet we inhale a lot of it via lint.

Looks like plastics can enter the body through sweat glands. I threw away all my polyester workout clothing (which I loved to use) because of this concern.

Call me paranoid but I'm going 100% cotton and linen. Not keen on getting my hormones disrupted by inhaling and absorbing microplastics!

From the linked article.

Also, I'd love to hear this from an article that isn't published by goop

A crime as heinous as the substance that was used. It's a miracle that he didn't kill himself or one of his family members with it.

So taken together, there would seem to be good reason to continue to continue to unravel the long-hypothesized inflammation/depression connection, and particularly in regards to possible exacerbating factors such as higher levels of M. morganii infection or even higher environmental exposure to diethanolamine. We seem to have a lot to learn here!