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Reading List 2/12 - Microplastics Continued. It's Even Worse.

More bad news since my November microplastics article

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Marcus Tisdale
Feb 12, 2026
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Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events

In plain English, it is a landmark study proving that people with plastics in their arteries were 4.5x more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke.

  • We focused on "microplastics" (visible fragments), but the real threat is nanoplastics or rather particles so small they can pass throu…

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