Microplastics can inflame the gut and are likely to be present in higher concentrations in fish and shellfish.

“here we have polyethylene microplastics messing with your gut flora that's a negative thing too so you can see here in the abstract feeding groups showed a significant increase in staff abundance alongside a significant decrease in parabacteroides abundance as compared to the untreated group in addition serum levels of interleukin-1 alpha and all feeding groups were significantly greater than in the blank group of note treatment with microplastics decreased the percentage of t helper17 and t reg cells among cd4 cells no difference was observed between the blank and treatment groups with respect to the t helper 17 t-reg cell ratio the small intestine colon and duodenum of mice fed high concentration microplastics showed obvious inflammation higher tlr4 that is total like receptor 4 ap1 iprf5 expression not bueno guys”