{"id":114658,"date":"2020-10-18T22:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/autopsies-show-microplastics-in-major-human-organs"},"modified":"2020-10-18T22:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:30:21","slug":"autopsies-show-microplastics-in-major-human-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/autopsies-show-microplastics-in-major-human-organs","title":{"rendered":"Autopsies Show Microplastics in Major Human Organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/autopsies-show-microplastics-in-major-human-organs.webm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks like micro-plastics are now found inside human bodies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers found evidence of plastic contamination in tissue samples taken from the lungs, liver, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/digestive-disorders\/picture-of-the-spleen\">spleen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/kidney-stones\/picture-of-the-kidneys\">kidneys<\/a> of donated human cadavers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have detected these chemicals of plastics in every single organ that we have investigated,\u201d said senior researcher Rolf Halden, director of the Arizona State University (ASU) Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s long been concern that the chemicals in plastics could have a wide range of health effects ranging from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diabetes\/default.htm\">diabetes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/obesity\/features\/am-i-obese\">obesity<\/a> to sexual dysfunction and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/infertility-and-reproduction\/guide\/understanding-infertility-basics\">infertility<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like micro-plastics are now found inside human bodies. Researchers found evidence of plastic contamination in tissue samples taken from the lungs, liver, spleen and kidneys of donated human cadavers. \u201cWe have detected these chemicals of plastics in every single organ that we have investigated,\u201d said senior researcher Rolf Halden, director of the Arizona [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}