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Researchers Find Microplastics in Human Waste for the First Time

Summary by Dr. Joseph Mercola
  • October 24, 2018

If you haven’t heard about microplastics yet, you may want to listen up: Researchers have now found these tiny, little, often invisible particles in human stool samples — meaning we’re ingesting them. Specifically, things like polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate are now part of the human digestive system. If it makes any difference, you’re not alone; microplastics were found in fish and marine animals quite some time ago. According to Time, the...