Microplastics Found in Human Blood
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Looks like we’re well on the way to exterminating ourselves….
Microplastics – tiny pieces of plastic less than 0.2 of an inch (5mm) in diameter – have been found in human blood for the first time.
Scientists in the Netherlands took blood samples from 22 anonymous healthy adult donors and analysed them for particles as small as 0.00002 of an inch.
The researchers found that 17 out of the 22 volunteers (77.2 per cent) had microplastics in their blood – a finding described as 'extremely concerning‘..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10...
Microplastics – tiny pieces of plastic less than 0.2 of an inch (5mm) in diameter – have been found in human blood for the first time.
Scientists in the Netherlands took blood samples from 22 anonymous healthy adult donors and analysed them for particles as small as 0.00002 of an inch.
The researchers found that 17 out of the 22 volunteers (77.2 per cent) had microplastics in their blood – a finding described as 'extremely concerning‘..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10...
dibbers006 said:
Irreparable damage to our planet and every living thing on it.
Respectfully disagree, based on data/research rather than Greta. Ecosystems have been thriving overall.Global net ecosystem production increased by at least 117 Tg C per year between 1995 and 2014. This from Fernández-Martínez et al (2019).
Human longevity continues to increase (UN).
Back to microplastics...
Murph7355 said:
Why would healthy individuals be cause for concern about extinction?
Indeed. So they're found, in healthy inividuals; so far so what.Established mechanism(s) for harm - needed.
This is predicted to get worse before it gets better. It is also known that plastics absorb then leach out long lasting toxins. This could end us in several ways, malnutrition, cancer, inability to take O2 into the blood, sterility, take your pick. Expect the ocean food chain to collapse first tho, so expect mass starvation and food wars. Whatever comes back after the next mass extinctions will have to assimilate these plastics, some bacteria already can. If we can rapidly cut pollution, there may be hope for some. Sorry kids.
dibbers006 said:
We jumped the shark a long time ago.
Irreparable damage to our planet and every living thing on it.
Cobblers. The idea we could cause irreparable damage to the planet is daft. Couple of million years and there would be almost no evidence humans or their activities ever existed.Irreparable damage to our planet and every living thing on it.
Article says...
Differences between who had microplastics in their blood and who didn't may have been due to plastic exposure just before the blood samples were taken.
So, for example, one volunteer who tested positive for microplastics in their blood may have recently drunk from a plastic-lined coffee cup.
So, if read properly and not just the headline, the study (done by a plastic pressure group) seems to suggest that the microplastics are so short lived in the blood, that the difference between someone who does and does not have them may have been the consumption of coffee from a plastic cup.
Differences between who had microplastics in their blood and who didn't may have been due to plastic exposure just before the blood samples were taken.
So, for example, one volunteer who tested positive for microplastics in their blood may have recently drunk from a plastic-lined coffee cup.
So, if read properly and not just the headline, the study (done by a plastic pressure group) seems to suggest that the microplastics are so short lived in the blood, that the difference between someone who does and does not have them may have been the consumption of coffee from a plastic cup.
eldar said:
dibbers006 said:
We jumped the shark a long time ago.
Irreparable damage to our planet and every living thing on it.
Cobblers. The idea we could cause irreparable damage to the planet is daft. Couple of million years and there would be almost no evidence humans or their activities ever existed.Irreparable damage to our planet and every living thing on it.
These conversations are always really funny, exploitation of fossil fuels and petrochemicals have drastically changed the world for the worse over the last 100 years but whenever you try and talk about it some people are determined to no see an issue.
CountVacillate said:
I am not surprised.
Years ago my dissertation was based on Microplastics.
Yet Turbobloke knows more than you about it and it’s ok ecosystems are thriving. Anyone who believes that, or actively tries to find “evidence” for such a position, is completely lacking in credibility. He doesn’t look for the facts, he looks for anything, from anywhere, to reinforce his beliefs that there is Man made climate change, that ecosystems are healthy, blah blah, always the same. Years ago my dissertation was based on Microplastics.
I am not an expert in the field of micro plastics, in fact I’m an idiot, in many fields, not just micro plastics; my take from this is that micro plastics discovered in blood streams recently+human lifespans are increasing= micro plastics are good for you, therefore I’m going to endeavour to make micro plastics 5% of my diet.
RelentlessForwardProgress said:
Yet Turbobloke knows more than you about it and it’s ok ecosystems are thriving. Anyone who believes that, or actively tries to find “evidence” for such a position, is completely lacking in credibility. He doesn’t look for the facts, he looks for anything, from anywhere, to reinforce his beliefs that there is Man made climate change, that ecosystems are healthy, blah blah, always the same.
In fairness, you have to consider how long we've had plastic kettles and if there has been any adverse affect on the population, a lot of the health links from plastics or additives are speculative and we should be seeing increases in types of illness / disease if the plastic is the cause.NWTony said:
In fairness, you have to consider how long we've had plastic kettles and if there has been any adverse affect on the population, a lot of the health links from plastics or additives are speculative and we should be seeing increases in types of illness / disease if the plastic is the cause.
Unscientific opinion, but cancer diagnosis is on the increase? If so it could be said, increase in cancers is due to environmental factors; the number of chemicals used in every day items like foods, shampoos and discovery of micro plastics. I guess the hardest part is being able to accurately come to a accurate diagnosis and not just speculate Tlandcruiser said:
NWTony said:
In fairness, you have to consider how long we've had plastic kettles and if there has been any adverse affect on the population, a lot of the health links from plastics or additives are speculative and we should be seeing increases in types of illness / disease if the plastic is the cause.
Unscientific opinion, but cancer diagnosis is on the increase? If so it could be said, increase in cancers is due to environmental factors; the number of chemicals used in every day items like foods, shampoos and discovery of micro plastics. I guess the hardest part is being able to accurately come to a accurate diagnosis and not just speculate ZedLeg said:
eldar said:
dibbers006 said:
We jumped the shark a long time ago.
Irreparable damage to our planet and every living thing on it.
Cobblers. The idea we could cause irreparable damage to the planet is daft. Couple of million years and there would be almost no evidence humans or their activities ever existed.Irreparable damage to our planet and every living thing on it.
These conversations are always really funny, exploitation of fossil fuels and petrochemicals have drastically changed the world for the worse over the last 100 years but whenever you try and talk about it some people are determined to no see an issue.
We think the world is all about us. It isn't, we are simply another short lived species among the billions now extinct.
Evolution will sort it all by its self.
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