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[–] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'd like to know the concentration needed to get clots to form.

People, the only proven way to reduce the amount of micro plastics in your blood, is to donate blood. As often as possible. You can do a good thing for selfish reasons.

[–] ArcticDagger 10 points 2 months ago

Good point

I believe the original article is open access: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr8243

In there, they show the following figure (figure 6):

Where the authors say that 12 μg/ml microplastics in the blood is representative for humans

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