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Re:Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression by sethammons on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @07:36AM (#42864162)
the people down voting the idea of skin absorption as a meaningful vector for getting things into your body remind me of the people a hundred years ago who thought animals cannot feel anything.

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.

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Re:Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression by marcosdumay on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:32AM (#42864705)
Differently from simple chemical substances, microplastics absorption through the skin is kind of an extraordinary claim.

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

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Re:Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression by jajko on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:16AM (#42865128)
I'd say more nano-plastics. And pathway is more oral ingestion or breathing them in when they get loose from clothing. For sure, form time to time we breathe in one of those super thin 'hair'.

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.

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Re:Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression by weberer on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:46AM (#42865455)
>I'm wondering if the plastics in modern clothing are similarly exposing our systems to microplastics

I bet we inhale a lot of it via lint.

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Re:Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression by zorrolovsky on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @01:02PM (#42868663)
https://ceh.org/latest/news-coverage/do-your-workout-clothes...

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!

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Re:Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression by hinkley on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:28PM (#42869909)
Polypropylene seems to be a fairly biologically safe plastic. It makes a great base layer. And we serve hot foods in it.
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Re:Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression by mattmatheson on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @06:55PM (#42872977)
> If and how our workout clothes are leaching microplastics and endocrine disruptors directly into our bodies is theoretical, though

From the linked article.

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

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