{"id":1520,"date":"2024-07-14T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2024-07-07T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T17:18:21","slug":"the-latest-microplastics-revelations-is-just-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-latest-microplastics-revelations-is-just-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Microplastics Revelations is Just Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics, which are defined as plastic particles\u00a0 five millimeters thick, or about the width of a paperclip, have been found in people\u2019s livers,\u00a0 lungs, arteries, carotid arteries,\u00a0 breast milk,\u00a0 placentas \u2013 and now in men\u2019s testicles.\u00a0 It is not known how they get there, and more study is needed to determine how dangerous it is, but many scientists fear the results will not be good.\u00a0 Is there a solution?\u00a0 Of course there is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Microplastics are in human testicles. It\u2019s still not clear how they got there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/science\/microplastics-testicles-research-sperm-count-reproductive-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/grist.org\/science\/microplastics-testicles-research-sperm-count-reproductive-health\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TAKE ACTION<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/plastics-treaty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign Petition in support of Global Plastics Treaty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781642832358\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics, which are defined as plastic particles\u00a0 five millimeters thick, or about the width of a paperclip, have been found in people\u2019s livers,\u00a0 lungs, arteries, carotid arteries,\u00a0 breast milk,\u00a0 placentas \u2013 and now in men\u2019s testicles.\u00a0 It is not known how they get there, and more study is needed to determine how dangerous it is,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-latest-microplastics-revelations-is-just-nuts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Latest Microplastics Revelations is Just Nuts&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,55,41,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global","category-health","category-news","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}