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Podcast: On Health for Women
Episode: Microplastics and Nanoplastics: How Alarmed Should We Be?
Description: Have you ever had a moment where someone doubted your instinctsâonly for science to prove you right years later?When I was applying to my medical residency, a doctor scoffed at my concern for BPA and endocrine disruptors. âYou donât believe in that BPA crap, do you?â he said. Well, here we are, decades later, with research linking BPA to miscarriage and endocrine disruptionâeven from something as simple as touching receipts or airline tickets.And now, the new frontier: microplastics and nanoplastics.A recent Nature Medicine study revealed that human brains conta...