Well microplastics are micro after all, so maybe the byproduct would only be present in small amounts that the body can absorb? Chemotherapy is rough on the body but if the end result is that the cancer is removed it’s generally seen as a valid trade off. Unfortunately I’m not very knowledgeable about chemistry.
Chemotherapy is rough on the body because it's specifically targeted to disrupt the process of growing new cells, destroying them when they form. Your body produces new cells much slower than cancer does (by definition), so it can weather the poison longer (in theory).
There's no reason to expect this to be the analogy to hold for reactive chemicals capable of decomposing organic polymers, which are generally tougher to decompose than our also-organic cells.
Good point. Whenever I think about how much I'm poisoning myself with plastics or breathing exhaust or whatever I remind myself what I did last Friday night and it's like ... yeah this pales in comparison.
Well if you’re drinking heavily or something similar yes it might be worse than microplastics. But the scary thing about microplastics is that they accumulate with time, and we still don’t know what effects they’re having on the human body. I find that to be frightening in a very existential way, similar to thawing permafrost or nuclear Armageddon, lol. You can’t escape it, and statistically it’s probably ruining millions of people’s health across the world.
That's a good point. You can escape vaping questionable hemp products a lot easier than you can avoid being a walking, talking heavy metal filter for the local coal plant.
