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  1. Michael Harrop

    Review Microplastics and human health: unveiling the gut microbiome disruption and chronic disease risks (Review, Nov 2024)

    https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-and-infection-microbiology/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2024.1492759/full
  2. Michael Harrop

    Other Oral exposure to high concentrations of polystyrene microplastics alters the intestinal environment and metabolic outcomes in mice (Nov 2024)

    https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1407936/full
  3. Michael Harrop

    Article Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula. It’s probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil. (Oct 2024)

    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-plastic-spatula-flame-retardants/680452/
  4. Michael Harrop

    Study Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage and chromosome defects in sex cells (Oct 2024) Exposure to benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP) leads to increased double-strand break formation and germline dysfunction in Caenorhabditis elegans

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-plastic-chemical-phthalate-dna-breakage.html https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011434
  5. Michael Harrop

    Other Tire-wear particle leachate at environmentally relevant concentrations exert a hepatotoxic impact on the black-spotted frog by disrupting the gut–liver axis (2024)

    https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1062179 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590182624000341 Tires are the #1 source of microplastic pollution.
  6. Michael Harrop

    Video Plastic Makers Have A Big Secret: They’re Experimenting On You (Oct 2024)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBEr9DjSxA
  7. Michael Harrop

    Article Stop Drinking Bottled Water: Experts Warn of Health and Climate Impacts (Sep 2024) Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse

    https://www.newsweek.com/stop-drinking-bottled-water-experts-warn-health-climate-impacts-1959140 https://gh.bmj.com/content/9/8/e015226
  8. Michael Harrop

    Study Twenty years of microplastics pollution research—what have we learned? (Sep 2024) Scientists reviewed 7,000 studies on microplastics. Their alarming conclusion puts humanity on notice

    https://theconversation.com/scientists-reviewed-7-000-studies-on-microplastics-their-alarming-conclusion-puts-humanity-on-notice-239105 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2746
  9. Michael Harrop

    Video What Microplastics Are Doing to the Brain, Body, and Reproductive Systems (and steps you can take to reduce exposure) | Rhonda Patrick (Sep 2024)

    https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/microplastics/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzw_grLzjw CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 The extent of the problem 00:02:12 Top sources of exposure 00:04:00 Contamination of our water 00:05:04 BPA, phthalates, & PFAS (forever chemicals) 00:07:07 How heating plastic...
  10. Michael Harrop

    Study Microplastics can reach the human brain through the nasal passages, raising significant health concerns (Sep 2024) Microplastics in the Olfactory Bulb of the Human Brain

    https://www.rfi.fr/en/environment/20240918-study-reveals-microplastics-can-enter-human-brain-through-nasal-pathway One more reason to not buy plastic/polyester clothes. They shed microplastics that float in the air, which you then breathe in.
  11. Michael Harrop

    Article Agriculture has a plastic problem and it’s threatening the future of food (Sep 2024)

    https://india.mongabay.com/2024/09/agriculture-has-a-plastic-problem-and-its-threatening-the-future-of-food/
  12. Michael Harrop

    Other Detection of Microplastics in Human Breast Milk and Its Association with Changes in Human Milk Bacterial Microbiota (Jul 2024, n=59)

    https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/14/4029
  13. Michael Harrop

    Video How Rhonda Patrick Limits Microplastic Exposure (Jul 2024)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqXv_e8nyJE The water bottle she uses still has plastic. NYT has an article with some completely non-plastic water bottles. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-water-bottle/
  14. Michael Harrop

    Study Apparel industry leaks millions of tons of plastic into environment each year (Jun 2024) The global apparel industry is a significant yet overlooked source of plastic leakage

    https://phys.org/news/2024-07-apparel-industry-leaks-millions-tons.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49441-4
  15. Michael Harrop

    Other MicroRNA and Gut Microbiota Alter Intergenerational Effects of Paternal Exposure to Polyethylene Nanoplastics (Jun 2024, mice) "paternal exposure to PE-NPs significantly affected growth phenotypes and sex hormone levels and induced histological damage in the testicular tissue"

    https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.4c06298 There are, and have been for quite a while, plant-based alternatives to plastic. Yet the vast majority of the population does not switch to them...
  16. Michael Harrop

    Article Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws (June 2024) Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/26/plastics-companies-blocking-mitigation-efforts https://www.ciel.org/reports/make-plastic-polluters-pay/
  17. Michael Harrop

    Article The link between plastic pollution & climate change (Jun 2024)

    https://citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/advocacy/the-link-between-plastic-pollution-and-climate-change/
  18. Michael Harrop

    Study Toys Containing BPA May Cause Obesity in Dogs (Jun 2024) The obesogen bisphenol A promotes adipogenesis in canine adipose-derived stem cells: Potential implication in dog obesity

    https://www.thewildest.com/dog-health/bpa-dog-toys-obesity-study-news https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653524014735
  19. Michael Harrop

    Article The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica (Jun 2024)

    https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis
  20. Michael Harrop

    Article Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference (May 2024) How the Plastics Industry Invaded the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference — ProPublica

    https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-waste-united-nations-international-conference-treaty-ottawa Plant-based alternatives have existed for many years. The main reason people won't switch is that they cost a little more (the other main reason is lobbying from the oil industry). The...
  21. Michael Harrop

    Article UK governments announce ban on wet wipes containing plastic (Apr 2024) "Wet wipes containing plastic are polluting our waterways and causing microplastics to enter the environment". 95% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed.

    https://www.circularonline.co.uk/news/uk-governments-announce-ban-on-wet-wipes-containing-plastic/ Nice to see the public and government supportive and taking steps to reduce plastic waste. Petition your own government to do the same!
  22. Michael Harrop

    Other Microplastics dampen the self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells by disrupting the gut microbiota-hypoxanthine-Wnt axis (Mar 2024, mice & humans)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-024-00665-0
  23. Michael Harrop

    Article Most US sandwich baggies contain toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’. Testing commissioned by Mamavation blog found high levels of a marker of PFAS in nine of 11 baggies tested (Mar 2024)

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/14/plastic-sandwich-bags-pfas-chemicals https://www.mamavation.com/food/plastic-sandwich-bags-ziploc-pfas-forever-chemicals.html You can buy compostable sandwich/zip-lock bags in some stores now. Target has them. The EPA has a page listing...
  24. Michael Harrop

    Study Landmark study links microplastics to serious health problems. (Mar 2024, n=304) Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00650-3 https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822
  25. Michael Harrop

    FMT Oral exposure of polystyrene microplastics and doxycycline affects mice neurological function via gut microbiota disruption: The orchestrating role of fecal microbiota transplantation (Feb 2024)

  26. Michael Harrop

    Study More concerning than the nanoplastics in water bottles are the chemicals on them. (Jan 2024) Chemicals Used in Plastic Materials: An Estimate of the Attributable Disease Burden and Costs in the United States

    Articles: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-01-18/health-costs-of-plastics-run-250-billion-a-year https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2024/us-health-costs-related-to-chemicals-in-plastics-reached-250-billion-in-2018 The study...
  27. Michael Harrop

    Study Two new studies have found that we’re eating and drinking more plastic than we might have realized (Jan 2024) Exposure of U.S. adults to microplastics from commonly-consumed proteins. Rapid single-particle chemical imaging of nanoplastics by SRS microscopy.

    George Leonard, a co-author of one of the studies and chief scientist at Ocean Conservancy, joins John Yang to discuss the findings https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-you-may-be-eating-and-drinking-more-microplastics-than-you-thought Articles: Diet for a Sick Planet: Studies Find More...
  28. Michael Harrop

    Article The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food. Consumer Reports finds BPA, phthalates "widespread" in supermarket and fast foods regardless of their packaging and ingredients and whether or not they are certified organic (Jan 2024)

    https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the-plastic-chemicals-hiding-in-your-food-a7358224781/ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bpa-phthalates-widespread-supermarket-foods-201500757.html FDA petition https://action.consumerreports.org/nb-20230104-fdaplasticizers How to Reduce...
  29. Michael Harrop

    Study Nanoplastics promote conditions for Parkinson's across various lab models (Nov 2023) Anionic nanoplastic contaminants promote Parkinson’s disease–associated α-synuclein aggregation

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-nanoplastics-conditions-parkinson-lab.html https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi8716
  30. Michael Harrop

    Study Microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, cause behavioral changes (Aug 2023) Acute Exposure to Microplastics Induced Changes in Behavior and Inflammation in Young and Old Mice

    Article https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230828162343.htm Study https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/15/12308
  31. Michael Harrop

    Study Plant-based filter removes up to 99.9% of microplastics from water (Jun 2023) Flowthrough Capture of Microplastics through Polyphenol-Mediated Interfacial Interactions on Wood Sawdust

    Article: https://newatlas.com/environment/plant-materials-effectively-capture-water-microplastics/ Study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202301531
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