2024-10-21
1 小时 36 分钟Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science based tools for everyday life.
I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
Today, we are discussing microplastics.
Microplastics are an extremely interesting and important topic that everyone should know about.
And the reason is microplastics are indeed everywhere.
They are in the air, they are in beverages we consume.
They are lining the inside of soup cans.
They are lining the inside of paper cups made to hold hot water, coffee and tea.
And there are a lot of animal data, and indeed some human data, showing that microplastics, which consist of particles of different sizes, can be very detrimental to our health.
At the same time, it's important to realize that as of now, we don't have any causal data linking microplastics to specific human diseases.
That said, there's a lot of correlative data, and today we are going to review those correlative data.
And most importantly, we are going to discuss the various things that we can each and all do to limit our exposure to microplastics, or at least to facilitate the removal of microplastics from our body.
Because as we'll soon discuss, you have microplastics in essentially every organization and tissue of your body right now, and you are constantly being bombarded with microplastics.
So the challenge for me, and indeed for you as well, is to frame this topic of microplastics accurately.
It's important that we understand they are out there, they are in us, and indeed, they can cause serious issues for our health.
However, we also need to take agency.
We need to understand how we can limit what's called the bioaccumulation of microplastics in our organs and tissues.
And I don't want to be alarmist.
Today's episode is not about.
About getting you to be petrified or about developing some sort of hypochondriacis about microplastics.