"Using plastic clothing leads to ingestion and inhalation of large amounts of both microplastic particles and hundreds of toxic substances (POPs, eDCs, heavy metals) with known or suspected carcinogenic, developmental, or endocrine-disrupting impacts. Microplastics entering the human body can lead to an array of health impacts, including inflammation, geno-toxicity, oxidative stress, apoptosis, and necrosis, which are linked to an array of negative health outcomes including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic inflammation, auto-immune conditions, neurodegenerative diseases, and stroke." Full article here.
Submitted February 22, 2020 at 08:00PM by FSWIR https://ift.tt/2HPrODM
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