Microplasty in your food is contributing to the following two health issues: Study

You know that microplastics are appearing in your extract containers and your dump food.

But fresh alarming research shows that they are present in almost everything you consume – and the effects of these small particles are from Far Teeny.

A new study in my successes that the microplasty found in food and drink could be interference with blood sugar levels and damage the distribution.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that animals that consumed polystyrene nanoplasty-the plastic type used in the glucose intolerance developed by food packaging and signs of distribution damage, two serious health issues that can have long-term consequences.

Findings – which were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Food on Sunday – raise red flags for what could make all that invisible plastic for the human body.

“With the growing concern about micro and nanoplastic exposure, we wanted to appreciate the impact of this exposure to health,” said lead author Amy Parkhs, a doctoral candidate at UC Davis, in a press release.

Parkhs and its team fed mice a standard diet prominent with a daily dose of polystyrene nanoparticles, imitating the way people are exposed through food and drinks.

The dose was chosen to reflect the human work of real work-which could range from tens of thousands to millions of particles a year, according to previous estimates.

Compared to their plastic-free peers, mice eating nanoplasty had problems regulating blood sugar-a condition known as glucose intolerance, which can be a warning sign for diabetes.

Plastic dose rats also had higher levels of a delivery enzyme called ALT-A ordinary marker for delivery damage.

Moreover, the study found that plastic made the intestine more “leakage”, allowing harmful substances to enter the bloodstream and potentially stress life even more.

As the findings come from mice, not humans, they add a growing pile of research that raise questions about how microplastics – which are now found everywhere from bottle in seafood – can be affected by our health.

“We cannot check for all the plastic whose rats are exposed,” pointed out Parkhone, “Hawver, our study model allowed us to see dose -related changes as the group dosed by nanoplasty would have a higher exposure.”

Parkhurst stressed that more research is needed to understand how these particles affect humans and whether they pose similar risks for the long run.

However, the message is clear: what is too small to see may not be too small to hurt.