TAKE THIS PERSONALLY: Microplastics Uncovered: How They Impact Our Health, Food, and Planet
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Microplastics are everywhere. In the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. In this episode, Morgan talks with Microplastics researcher Dana about how microplastics affect our health and the environment. Dana breaks down the science behind primary and secondary microplastics, explains how everyday items like tires and plastic products contribute to the problem, and shares practical ways we can all reduce our plastic footprint. Learn why microplastics are a growing threat to food security and plant growth, and discover the hope in knowing that small changes, combined with community and governmental action, can reverse their effects.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:21.8 | The hottest of hot topics lately, microplastic. Take this personally. With Morgan Heelsman. |
| 0:25.0 | The hottest of hot topics lately, microplastics. |
| 0:28.5 | Everyone is working on their health and wellness these days, and we love to see it. |
| 0:32.8 | This next series dives into that further, but with the help of science and research. |
| 0:37.6 | I have Microplastics researcher Donna joining this week to give us an actual breakdown of what's happening in the world of microplastics, and if it's as bad as it seems. Then, Integrative Health |
| 0:43.2 | Practitioner Kara Clark is joining me next week. She's been helping me get through all the detoxes and |
| 0:48.1 | cleanses, trying to rid my body of long COVID and getting me back to some prime health. You may remember |
| 0:54.0 | her from another episode |
| 0:54.9 | to do with me several months ago. But first, let's get into the world of microplastics. |
| 1:03.5 | Well, microplastics have officially taken over the internet. Everybody's talking about them. And so I thought, what better to do than go straight to a source? So Donna is joining me from a completely different time zone. Hi, Donna. Thanks for coming on. Hi, everyone. I'm excited to be here and talk about microplastic, my favorite topic. Yeah, so you are a |
| 1:29.1 | microplastics researcher and you're a startup founder. So I want to hear your whole backstory |
| 1:33.9 | and how you even got into this line of work. Yeah, of course. I will start with my like back |
| 1:39.5 | backstory, background. So I'm from Kazakhstan originally and both of my parents, they are from the |
| 1:45.2 | RLC. The RLC is the region in Kazakhstan where a huge environmental disaster took place in the |
| 1:50.7 | 60s. So basically the RLC was once one of the largest lakes in the world. However, due to human |
| 1:56.7 | activities, due to mismanagement and stuff like that we unfortunately lost 90% of the sea of the |
| 2:03.5 | lake and we only have 10% of it's left if you like google literally the rlc before and after |
| 2:10.9 | you'll be shocked by the pictures you will see how it was so big and right now like it's just a |
| 2:16.9 | thin strand of water and that's really |
| 2:20.4 | devastating just by the fact of it but of course because it's an environmental disaster it also |
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