Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones, Research Suggests

Microplastics may be According to recently published research, a factor to run cases of osteoporosis worldwide. The study suggests that when these small plastic particles enter the body, they disrupt the functioning of bone marrow stem cells, which are essential for maintaining and repairing bone tissue.

Throughout life, your bones are filled again. Osteoporosis is a condition where this process goes wrong, it is replaced by exiting the rate of bone. This weakens bones over time and is more likely to fracture. There are many risk factors in the situation – age, gender, medicines, diet, smoking and drinking, and genetics are all known to affect it – with timely developing disease over time. Often people do not realize that they have a situation until they break the bone.

This new analysis published in Osteoporosis International Journal, combines the contact of microplastics as a potential new risk factor. Research reviewed 62 scientific articles, which conducted various laboratory and animal tests on the possible effects of micro and nanoplastics on the bone. Analysis of laboratory experiments has shown that microplastic stimulates the formation of osteoclasts, cells made by stem cells in the bone marrow that lowers bone tissue to promote revival, the process in which the body breaks down and eliminates chronic or damaged bone.

The study also found that, in relation to bones, plastic particles can reduce the viability of cells, premature cellular aging, modify gene expression, and trigger inflammatory reactions. The combination of these effects creates an imbalance in which osteoclasts destroy more bone tissue than being revived, causing a quick weakening of the bone structure.

When looking at animal studies then the researchers found that the accumulation of microplastic in the body reduces the count of white blood cells – which suggest changes in bone marrow function. In addition, studies of these animals suggested that the effect of microplastics on osteoclasts may be associated with deteriorating bone microstructure and the formation of irregular structures of cells, which increases the risk of bone fragility, deformity and fracture.

“In this study, adverse effects said that in obstruction of animal skeletal growth, worryingly, worryingly,” a press release said in a press release Kouthor Rodrigo Beeno de Olivera. “Microplastics on bones are a matter of scientific study and not negligible.”

Olivera, who is a laboratory coordinator to evaluate minerals and bone disorders in nephrology at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, is now working with his team to prove further in the behavior of relations in contact with microplastics and bone fall. This research will begin by evaluating the effects of microplastic particles on women of rodents.

“Although osteometabolic diseases are understood relatively well, but there is a difference in our knowledge about the effect of microplastics on the development of these diseases. Therefore, one of our goals has to generate evidence that microplastics can be a potentially controlgic environmental cause, for example, for example, said Olivera,” said Olivera, “said Olivera said.

Microplastics and nanoplastics are small pieces of plastic – some are so small that they are invisible to the naked eyes – which are separated from everyday objects when they degrade sunlight, wind, rain, seawater, or friction when they degrade sunlight, wind, rain, seawater, or friction. The main difference between two lies in their size: Microplastics measures up to 5 millimeters from 1 micrometer (one thousandth of one millimeter), while nanoplastics are smaller than 1 micrometer. These particles are detected in the natural environment worldwide, as well as in the entire human body and meat, water and various agricultural products.

Studies have started showing that this type of plastic contamination can cause health damage. Experts argue that this means that the world needs to reduce the use of immediate plastic. Every year more than 500 million tonnes of materials are produced worldwide, but only 9 percent are recycled, most of the rest spread and humiliated into the environment.

This story appeared originally Wire N aspanol And has been translated from Spanish.