How Are Microplastics Impacting Your Health? | Essential Insight From An Expert Biologist And Toxicologist
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Microplastics have been detected in human blood for the first time, which begs the question: What could this mean for human health? Joining us to address this problem is Dick Vethaak, a Marine Ecotoxicologist and Environmental Health Scientist that specializes in the impacts of chemical pollutants and plastic debris.
Vethaak is trained in biology and toxicology, which gives him insight into the complex world of plastic pollution and how it impacts environmental health. Currently a research professor at Vrije Universiteit, in Amsterdam, Vethaak has focused his efforts on exploring microplastic contamination – both in water and in human beings…
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- Why microplastics may be considered a human health issue.
- How plastic particles in the bloodstream could affect how the body functions.
- Where microplastics come from.
- How microplastics are ingested into the body, and if they are expelled.
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| 0:29.0 | Come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | What I guess today is the talk. |
| 0:43.0 | He's a researcher, water quality, and very echo of toxicology. |
| 0:47.0 | We're going to talk about the presence of microplastics in human blood and water quality issues that he works on as well. |
| 0:55.0 | For the rest of his bio, I'll let Dick describe it because there's various such words that I'm probably going to mispronounce. |
| 1:01.0 | But Dick, thank you for coming. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, very welcome. |
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