ALARMING DATA: MICROPLASTICS in your BODY #science #microplastics #plastic #technology
00:00:00.000 | team of scientists in Italy collected samples from patients
00:00:03.920 | that had plaque removed from the carotid artery. So a total of
00:00:07.340 | 304 patients agreed to have the plaque that was removed from
00:00:11.260 | their artery submitted for analysis. And then what this
00:00:13.800 | team did is they took that plaque and they studied it to
00:00:16.300 | see how much plastic was found in that plaque microplastics or
00:00:20.340 | nanoplastics remember are less than five millimeters in size
00:00:23.780 | with a mean level of 21 micrograms per milligram of
00:00:27.720 | plaque roughly one per 50 is the ratio of plastic to plaque
00:00:32.340 | that they found which is really incredible, incredible good or
00:00:35.380 | incredible bad, incredible bad that these microplastics are
00:00:38.700 | accumulating in the human body. Now here's the scary part. They
00:00:41.640 | then did a follow up 34 months later, the patients that had
00:00:44.820 | plastic in their blood had a four and a half times higher
00:00:47.860 | ratio or likelihood of having a heart attack, stroke or death
00:00:51.580 | from any cause. So all of these major health effects were four
00:00:55.540 | and a half times elevated in patients that had plastic in their blood.