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Microplastics, blood cleaning and Orlando Bloom

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The Guardian

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4.2938 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The actor recently posted a photo of himself undergoing a £10,000 procedure at a London clinic that claims to remove microplastics, forever chemicals and herbicides from the blood. But how settled is the science around the health risks of microplastics? To find out, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Stephanie Wright, associate professor of environmental toxicology at Imperial College London’s school of public health. She explains what we know so far about the effects of microplastics in the body, why the science is still evolving, and what we can do to reduce our exposure. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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They wrap our food, coat our furniture and are woven through our clothes.

1:26.7

So it shouldn't be a surprise that plastics are in us,

1:30.0

too. They've been found in the brain, bloodstream, vital organs, even breast milk.

1:35.0

A study published last week found that microplastics may even have made it into our

1:40.4

reproductive fluids. The new study was small, but it found microplastics in 69% of follicular fluid samples.

1:49.0

That's the liquid that surrounds eggs in the ovaries.

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