Microplastics can cause inflammation, DNA damage, and hormonal disruption in human tissues. They carry other toxins and may increase cancer risk, including early-onset cancers. Scientists are actively investigating these health effects.
The data suggests that microplastics have cancer risk by causing inflammation, DNA damage disruption, and hormones, and they carry other toxins with them. So this is all causing a higher risk for things like lung cancer, colon cancer. Early onset cancers that have been increasing in younger people also might have to do with increased toxicity in our world. And microplastics play a big part of that because they can get into our human tissue and very difficult, if impossible, to take out of the body, indicating that they can be a serious concern for long term health. And scientists have actively been investigating this.
