Welcome to Wellness and Mass. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and today we're going to talk about a new study that is just revealing again how many microplastics we are exposed to every single day.

Now, the conversation about microplastics, this is not a conspiracy theory. This isn't some crazy futuristic conversation like, oh, one day maybe we'll

learn about microplastics. No, absolutely not. Our exposure to microplastics, it's a real

problem. And I'll be honest, I'm a little bit disappointed because the updated Maha report,

they'd mentioned it. And all they said was,

you know what we're going to do? We're going to put a lot of money into studying microplastics.

I don't need any more studies because I'm telling you it's a problem. I'll break down for you

briefly some of the studies that I'm talking about and you tell me do you think we

should spend millions of dollars to study it more or should we spend millions of dollars to try and

decrease how much we consume? So the study that just came out in the last week, now mind you,

this isn't some groundbreaking study. It's not brand new, but it's a new study, and it's a study

out of the UK, and they decided to look at a whole bunch of different beverages, and they tested

them. They wanted to see at the bottom of the beverages, so after they were consumed, you know,

if it's tea or if it's coffee, and there's still some grinds or whatever's

left at the bottom. They tested that little bit of fluid leftover. It was about 155 samples of

various different beverages all throughout UK supermarkets and coffee shops. They found

microplastics inside every single one. And the contamination or the amount of

microplastics in each varied. And so it actually does make a difference in what you are

consuming. You know, when most people hear the term microplastics, they're thinking like

soda bottles breaking down in the ocean

or the garbage on the side of the road and somehow these particles are getting into everything.

But no, no, no. The reality is far more unsettling than that. These studies are showing that

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