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India is really not for beginners! How are we even surviving?

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tenxengineer
tenxengineer

Because they are not small enough to pierce the gut walls. Also, most of them are bio-inert, they don't react with your body at all.

Sources:

https://www.plasticstoday.com/materials/plastics-are-inert-indigestible-non-toxic-and-widely-myth-understood-

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653523022695

tenxengineer
tenxengineer

The only major thing you need to worry about is the ingestion of metals like lead and arsenic which actually are harmful for you. But compared to microplastics, you are more likely to ingest huge amounts of these metals from non purified water, and alternative pseudoscience based "medical" systems such as Ayurveda, Siddha and Homeopathy.

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