The Top 10 Foods That Have Microplastics and How to Avoid Them

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A recent study found a plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards in human brain tissue. Some researchers have estimated that people consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles each year. If we add how much we take in when breathing, that number goes up to 74,000 to 121,000.

Microplastics aren't something we can outrun. They're in our water, our clothes and our kitchens. Experts have also found them in the foods we eat. OK, that sounds bad, but how bad is it?

"There is no officially established 'safe' or 'unsafe' level of microplastic intake. It makes sense to want your exposure to be as low as possible," Dr. Joseph Mercola, a board-certified family medicine osteopathic physician, said in an email.

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Top 10 foods in your diet that contain microplastics

Seafood

One of the most significant ways plastic particles end up in our food is through single-use plastics that break down and find their way into waterways and soil. When they reach the oceans, they end up in our seafood.

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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/one-side-microplastics-please-common-160005147.html

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1. So everything.

[Ocelot II]

2. Mercola is a quack. He's a prominent anti-vaxxer and spreader of covid misinformation,

including a claim that hydrogen peroxide could cure it; claims the HIV virus doesn't cause AIDS, that cell phones cause cancer; claimed the sunscreens he sold on his web site prevent skin cancer while commercial sunscreens cause it; sold tanning beds claiming they would prevent cancer. He's been repeatedly warned about his claims and his products by the FDA. Microplastics might be a problem but I wouldn't rely on anything Mercola says about them or about much of anything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola

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3. Microplasic is a serious issue

but I don't know how accurate this particular article or it's writer is with the details. The fish and plastic utensil issues I know is factual. The accumulation in the brain and getting into the bloodstream I have read before I believe from NIH.

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5. He's probably selling a "cure."

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4. Thanks for the warning about Mercola, though.

[rog]

6. Yes, and unfortunately, Mercola appears to be the only source for this article.

At least he is the only source quoted.

That's too bad, because I agree that plastic pollution is a huge problem. But Mercola is a whack job and a grifter.

.rog.

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7. Mercola has a history of trying to monetize legitimate health concerns

with his "natural" snake oil products.

[defacto7]

8. And that's all we need right now ...

someone else to undermine the validity of science and the dangers of pollution.