{"id":94587,"date":"2026-10-21T08:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94587"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T00:04:01","slug":"how-microplastics-react-with-water-to-damage-our-bodies-and-cause-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94587","title":{"rendered":"How microplastics react with water to damage our bodies and cause inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/20\/02a6ae1f-6b48-4f99-9e29-490416797b6d_66e2bb5f.jpg?itok=U4gG9Lb6&amp;v=1792490999\" \/><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Plain old water could be responsible for making plastics harmful to people, according to a new study that portends significant consequences for human health.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">The study<\/span>, published in the journal Nature, found chemical reactions between water and six types of fossil fuel-based plastic-created particles that damaged red blood cells and proteins in laboratory tests.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">As plastic in the body breaks down into smaller and smaller bits \u2013 known as <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">microplastics and nanoplastics<\/span> \u2013 the potential danger increases, says study co-author Wei Min, a Peking University graduate who is now a professor of chemistry and biomedical engineering at Columbia University in New York.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3371477\/how-microplastics-react-water-damage-our-bodies-and-cause-inflammation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plain old water could be responsible for making plastics harmful to people, according to a new study that portends significant consequences for human health. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[14588,3226,27390,31979,16142,203],"class_list":["post-94587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-bodies","tag-damage","tag-inflammation","tag-microplastics","tag-react","tag-water","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}