Bryan Johnson· Author
A recent study found thousands of microplastic particles in standard hospital IV fluids.
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A recent study found thousands of microplastic particles in standard hospital IV fluids.
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This experiment supports what early literature suggests: IV bags and lines may leach microplastics directly into your bloodstream.
A standard wellness IV drip may deliver up to 40,000 microplastic particles directly into your bloodstream.
IV bags have thousands more microplastics than water bottles.
A sample of IV fluid via an IV bag contained 8 microplastic particles per 100µl.
Plus the exposure route is unique since microplastics enter the bloodstream directly, bypassing digestion or inhalation
Your IV infusions may leach microplastics directly into your bloodstream.
A standard wellness IV drip may deliver up to 40,000 microplastic particles directly into your bloodstream.
I mean, when you think about like, you know, what an IV drip is, it's plastic tubing connected to a plastic catheter coming from a plastic bag.
So we shared that we did a test on an IV drip. So a lot of people get NAD drips and vitamin drips and we tested the microplastics in a typical drip and we found that it had on average 40,000 microplastics in a drip.