How To Avoid Microplastics ⚠️

[0:00]Best ways to reduce microplastic exposure. You're eating a credit card's worth of plastic every week. Here's how to cut that down. One, quit plastic bottles. Bottle water contains up to 240,000 microplastic particles per liter. A filter is cleaner and cheaper. Two, sauna regularly. Sweating eliminates phalates and microplastic associated chemicals through your skin. 20 to 30 minutes is enough. Three, ditch the polyester. Your synthetic gym clothes shed 700,000 microfibers per wash. and absorb directly through your skin while you sweat. Four, go stainless steel. TFT coated nonstick pans shed particles into your food every time you heat them. Cast iron and stainless don't. Five, filter with reserve osmosis. Removes up to 99% of microplastics from tap water. Most standard filters don't come close. Six, switch to glass. Plastic food containers leech up to 4 million microplastic particles into a single serving when microwave. Seven, eat your fiber. High fiber foods bind to microplastics in your gut and carry them out before they can absorb. Eight, choose loose leaf. One plastic tea bag releases 11 billion microplastic particles into your cup. Nine, chop on wood. Plastic cutting boards shed up to 50 million particles into your food every year. Ten, see exactly what ingredients, additives and flagged chemicals are in your product before you buy it with the Nutron app.