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Thursday, March 7th, 2024

Nanoplastics linked to heart attack, stroke and early death, study finds

Author:     Sandee LaMotte
Source:     CNN
Publication Date:     Wed March 6, 2024 | 5:00 PM EST
 Link: Nanoplastics linked to heart attack, stroke and early death, study finds
Stephan:  

Please read and study this article, I want my readers to stay alive. The evidence about nano plastics polluting our lives just keeps growing. Here is the latest report. As this article makes clear, NEVER, EVER drink water again out of a plastic bottle. You are literally killing yourself by doing so. Buy some kind of drinking vessel with a lid, and fill it before you go out.  As the report says, “Avoid microwaving food or beverages in plastic, including infant formula and pumped human milk, and don’t put plastic in the dishwasher, because the heat can cause chemicals to leach out,” Nanoplastics is one of the reasons Americans have a life span five years shorter than most European/Nordic countries or Japan.

A recent study found the equivalent of two standard-size bottled waters contained an average of 240,000 plastic particles — 90% were nanoplastics. 
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People with microplastics or nanoplastics in their carotid artery tissues were twice as likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die from any cause over the next three years than people who had none, a new study found.

Carotid arteries, which lie on each side of the neck and carry blood to the brain, can become clogged with fatty cholesterol plaques in a similar fashion as the arteries leading into the heart, a process known as atherosclerosis.

“To date, our study is the first that associated the plastic contamination with human diseases,” said Raffaele Marfella, lead author of the study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“Our data must be confirmed by other studies and on larger populations,” said Marfella, professor of internal medicine and director of the department of medical and surgical sciences at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli in Naples, Italy, in an email. […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 5:21 am

    This is the result of the devil’s bargain we have made with an under regulated Petro-chemical industry. Many of the ills we face in our culture, including part of the culture wars, can be traced to unregulated products produced by this industry. The obligation should be on the for profit companies who manufacture these environmental contaminants to prove their products are safe, not on an under resourced governmental agency to prove they are not – only often after years of litigation, and much damage.