A modern threat
You need help cleaning up the microplastics.
Microplastics have been detected in the blood of 77% of healthy adults. Based on recent research, you are likely carrying about 7 grams of microplastics in your brain: the weight of a plastic spoon.
When your cells detect nanoplastics, they try to clear them using autophagy. But plastics jam the system. The recycling machinery stalls, mitochondria get damaged, and inflammation spikes.
Spermidine keeps the autophagy going, isolating the plastic particles and continuing the cleanup. It also triggers mitophagy, clearing the damaged mitochondria so they don’t sap your energy.
Spermidine and sulforaphane are two of the only supplements shown to help remove microplastics from the body.
The average person ingests about 20 grams of microplastics every month, the weight of a one-liter water bottle.
Senathirajah and Palanisami, University of Newcastle, Australia, 2019. No Plastic in Nature: Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People, commissioned by WWF.