The worse it gets, the more experts learn about microplastics. A new study by researchers at the Medical University of Vienna summarizes all the current knowledge about micro- and nanoplastic particles and how they end up in our gut.
If you drink from plastic bottles, you will get almost 100,000 particles per year.
MNPs are small, but not all the same. According to a press blurb about the study published on the school's website, microplastics are less than 1 millimeter in size and can be invisible to the naked eye.
According to the blurb, people who drink the recommended 50 ounces of water from plastic bottles ingest almost 90,000 plastic particles every year. If people drink tap water, it could reduce that by as much as 50,000 less particles.
Professor and study co-author Lukas Kenner told the university's press office that the effects of consuming microplastics are worse for people with chronic disease.
The blurb said that a healthy gut is more likely to ward off the health risk.
The team wrote that addressing the global plastic consumption is complicated. Plastic is used so much in the health care industry because it is safer and more sterile. Plastic is used in stethoscopes, examination gloves, sterile syringes, blood bags and tubes, and heart valves.
The authors want to know where the most prevalent types of MNPs come from, how much is left in the body, and whether there are natural processes that could digest plastic.
The team says more needs to be done to study the particles because the amount of people eating increases all the time.
The experts concluded that MNPs can transform cells and induce carcinogenesis.
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