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The Effects of Microplastics on Your Health & How to Reduce Them

Explore episode Oct 21, 2024

This newer analysis of the same data claims that the credit cards worth of plastic that it was argued we consume every week, well, that was an overestimate by a million fold.

Andrew Huberman

The Effects of Microplastics on Your He…

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Microplastics & Nanoplastics; Ingestion

At 8:08 · chapter starts 5:40

Defines microplastics (1 micron–5 mm) and nanoplastics (<1 micron), explains their pervasiveness in air, water, food, and packaging, and introduces the ongoing debate about how much we actually ingest.

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