Debunking Microplastic Myths: What We Actually Know About Plastic in Our Bodies

What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?

I built a plastics-free lab to expose how current methods overestimate microplastics in humans. My research reveals that lab contamination and lipid false positives have skewed data, debunking the viral claim that we eat a credit card's worth of plastic weekly. We need better science to truly understand our exposure.

"The much-hyped finding that we eat a credit card's worth of plastic each week? That has absolutely been debunked."