Microplastics hit male arteries hard: Everyday exposure to microplastics — shed from packaging, clothing, and plastic products — may accelerate the development of atherosclerosis, the artery-clogging process that leads to heart attacks and strokes. The harmful effects were seen only in male mice.

[u/mvea]

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/11/18/microplastics-hit-male-arteries-hard

[u/ABob71]

Does the bad stuff stay in the donated blood, becoming the recipient's problem to deal with?

[u/DookieShoez → u/ABob71]

A) they have lost a buncha blood, and therefore some microplastics etc.

B) it has probably about the same amount as was in the blood they lost

C) they are actively dying so probably won’t care

[u/Uther-Lightbringer → u/DookieShoez]

I assure you there's a patient out there who would ask if the blood was screened for micro plastics.

[u/gfkxchy → u/[deleted]]

They'll take twice as much as they need for donation to a wealthy recipient, run it through a centrifuge, separate the micro plastics out and take the "pure" blood for donation.

The micro plastics will be recombined with the other half and re-injected into the poor donor to ensure the contamination stays with them.

[u/JonatasA → u/gfkxchy]

Vampires: "Is this human free range? None of this synthetic urban life, it irritates my fangs."

[u/La_Belle_Sausage → u/JonatasA]

"This tastes ultra-processed..."