The Latest Science on Microplastics — And What They’re Doing to Your Body | Dr. Shanna Swan

Microplastics, which is something that's in the zeitgeist now as a problem and people are worried about, freaked out about, don't know what to do about. People measured them in their blood, they've been measured in placenters, they've been measured in seminal fluid, they've been measured in breast milk. They're breakdown products, very small breakdown products of plastic and do harm in two ways. They carry the chemical, the chemical is piggybacked on the little particle, and then they invade the cells. And that invasion, their presence in the human body, in the cell, itself causes harm.

It's not anything you have any control over, really, because they're so prevalent in our water and in our air and in everything we eat and smell and drink. Where are they coming from? Right? And the answer is everywhere. And that's kind of scary.

Let's talk about the testing. Is it worth people doing the testing? If you want to learn what's in your body and then Commit to go on and make changes in your life. You can.

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