Studies Reveal There's No Escape From Consuming Microplastics

You may not realize it, but you are consuming micro plastics every single day. It doesn’t matter how clean your diet is, these tiny particles are everywhere – including the clouds above your head. And we’re only just now learning about the dangers they pose to the human body. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

Link - https://truthout.org/articles/tiny-particles-of-plastic-now-pollute-our-food-water-and-even-the-clouds/

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You may not realize it, but you're consuming microplastics every single day. It doesn't matter how clean your diet is. These tiny particles are everywhere, including your brain. And we're only just learning about the dangers they pose because the industry's kept it quiet for so long. Right?
Yeah. We have just so far this year have had about half a dozen new studies come out about microplastics, nanoplastics, and all these other plastic fibers. And each study has looked at a different part. We had one study that looked at bottled waters and they found out, hey, wait a minute. Every bottled water we tested had microplastics. A ridiculous, dangerous amount. Every vegetable we tested, oh, you got microplastics. Every piece of meat, every store cereal and whatever it is on the grocery store shelves, they're telling us about 99% of 'em have levels of microplastics that would make you ill if you even knew the numbers. That's how bad this problem is.
We consume almost 12,000 microplastics every year going into our body. Matter of fact, you talked about bottled water. Just to put in perspective, you're talking about 370,000 plastic particles that we find in one. When they tested, they found 370,000 plastic particles. Well, this doesn't just move through your system. As a matter of fact, what it does is it migrates through your system in a way it can migrate systemically through your blood. It can actually cross through the blood brain barrier and end up in your brain. And that's what's happening. And you have from a gastrointestinal problem, it actually moves through the lining of your gut and sets there in the lining for your life. There's no way to get rid of it. You see, that's people, well, I can choate my system and everything's gonna be okay. Or maybe I'll stop drinking now, bottled water, and I'm gonna be. No, you're not. It's there. And the worst thing about it is they've known about this for a long time and they kept it real quiet.
Yeah, they did. And listen, people could try to say, okay, well, I'm only gonna eat organic. I'm not gonna go to these places that have horrible factory farm practices, which is great, by the way. But you're not gonna get away from the microplastics because, uh-oh, another study found out it's in the rainwater. So unless you can eat food that is a hundred percent not produced anywhere in the environment, you are consuming these plastics.
Farron, talk about it, explain to 'em why it's in the rainwater. It's taken up into the clouds. Talk about that just a second.
Yeah. What we've got here is these fibers are actually so small that when you get this evaporation, because they're everywhere in the environment, they actually get evaporated with the clouds. And you have a lot of it that goes up there, not just through evaporation, but through actual pollution. Fossil fuel pollution, a lot of their plastic production, which is what fossil fuel companies are also hugely involved in and it's big clouds billowing up into the sky filled with these particles that rain down and we consume.
Let me put it in perspective how dangerous it is, other than the fact we know now that it migrates through your entire body, including past your blood brain barrier, which is supposed to be protection for your brain. Now the problem is it has clear connection to high blood pressure, reproductive issues. Sometimes it's so severe that it will actually mimic early menopause. Because what it does is it mimics estrogen. It mimics estrogen, and your system reacts, it disrupts your endocrine system. And so all of a sudden these things are going sideways.