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Podcast: Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Episode: The Truth About Plastic: Why We Should All Care with Will McCallum #36
Description: “I do have real fears about whether or not the toxicity will increase to dangerous levels”
The statistics are devastating. Plastic has increased twenty-fold over the past 50 years and will double again in the next 10 years. Already present in the stomachs of nearly all the world’s marine birds, by 2050 plastics in the ocean may outweigh fish, covering large swaths of the Pacific in floating garbage slicks. But what effect does this plastic have? When ingested by big fish, like whales and seals, it lowers their immune system, lowers their ability to reproduce and even se...