Heart Attack Patients Have More Microplastics in Their Blood

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Patients suffering heart attacks have more microplastics in their blood, according to a new study from Italy.

Researchers looked at patients suffering from coronary artery disease and found that heart-attack patients in particular had significantly elevated levels of microplastics and nanoplastics—even smaller plastic particles—in their blood.

“These findings do not prove that microplastics cause heart attacks, but they reveal a strong association between environmental exposures, microplastics in the blood, and cardiovascular disease,” said one of the principal authors in a press release.

More than nine billion tons of plastic are estimated to have been produced between 1950 and 2017, and over half that total has been produced since 2004. The vast majority of that plastic has ended up in the environment, where it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic, some of which will end up in our bodies.

Nowhere on earth is untouched by plastic pollution now. Microplastics circulate like a force of nature, in water, in the air and in precipitation.

Researchers estimate 43 trillion pieces of microplastic land on Switzerland in snow every year, the equivalent of 3,000 tons. Up to 10% of the microplastics may have come from winds and weather taking place in the Atlantic, 1,200 miles away.

Within our homes, microplastics are mainly produced when synthetic fibres from clothes, furnishings and carpets are shed. They accumulate in large quantities in dust and float around in the air, which we then inhale.

New studies are appearing at a steady pace, linking microplastic exposure to virtually every form of chronic disease, from irritable bowel syndrome, obesity and autism, to cancer, Alzheimer’s and infertility. 

At the beginning of last month, Alex Jones Live reported evidence that microplastic exposure could be responsible for the explosion in allergy rates across the US.

Allergy rates have increased dramatically in recent years in the US, with as many as 100 million people experiencing some kind of allergy (seasonal, eczema or food allergies).

The most common, by far, are seasonal allergies like hayfever and allergic rhinitis.

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