Gary BreckaHuman Biologist & Longevity Innovator

You’re Eating Plastic (Here’s Why)

27 Mar 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief YouTube segment, Gary Brecka advises viewers to replace plastic cutting boards with natural wood or wood‑pulp fiber boards. He explains that scraping a knife on plastic surfaces releases tiny plastic fragments—microplastics—that can contaminate food. By switching to inexpensive, non‑toxic wooden boards, consumers can eliminate this source of microplastic ingestion.

Here's a super cheap, non-toxic kitchen swap. I'm gonna swap out my plastic cutting board for just a natural wood one. Here's why. When you actually scrape a knife along these plastic cutting boards, look at all those plastic fragments that would be going into your food. Very inexpensive to go to a cutting board that's actually made out of natural wood or wood pulp fibers and get rid of the microplastics.