Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study

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Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study
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Everything is contaminated with micro plastics.

Got it! Understood.

  1. What damage is it doing in these places?
  2. How do we mitigate that damage?

That's what papers should be focusing on at this point IMHO.

It’s hard to figure out exactly what’s the damage when the contamination is so widespread.

A study to find the effects of the microplastics might be to find some amount of men with microplastics and some without, and follow up with those men overtime to see if the ones without microplastics have less reproductive issues, cancer rates, etc. instead they find everyone is contaminated so there’s no one we can make a comparison to.

They would have to find men without microplastics, which might end up being extremely difficult.