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From an individual health perspective that makes sense, but not worrying about the extreme proliferation of plastic an unknown effects of bioaccumulation is probably really dumb on a societal level (and not worrying is clearly the path all or most developed countries have doubled down on).

My real question is, are they in any greater quantities than their found elsewere in the body?

It was my understanding that we've found microplastics in the body everywhere including the brain.

But microplastics are the current trendy health scare, distracting us from toxins with known mechanisms like motor exhausts and alcohol.

but where is the epstein list?

Yeah, but the health of the market tho

Yeah it's everywhere to the point we are rarely not in contact with plastic. We wear it, sleep in it, drink with it, walk on it, and whatever else you can imagine.

Plastic ish materials can be made from plants like hemp, stronger and non toxic depending on how they are made.

Good luck switching over, barriers to entry, an economy of scale needed to compete with plastic, and oil bros using the government to stymie competition would all prevent large scale switch over.

90 pc of all plastic ever made had been made in the last ten years it was reported years back, and huge new manufacturies were under construction. Which since everything was already plastic makes one wonder what all new they are doing with this increasing supply?

One thing is for certain, landfill it. Recycling plastic does not work, it releases chemicals, and was a psy op of oil companies to begin with to deflect blame.

Leather is also a fantastic material (without getting into the ethics of the cattle industry, which is another can of worms). It's a little bit pricy but anything made from quality leather is going to last a damn long time.

The Koch family of murderers.

Yeah, microplastics, not that bucket of fried chicken every day.

No, but you also don't need to blame the cholesterol. Cholesterol is a marker we can easily test, so we use that to measure things, but blaming cholesterol is like blaming fire fighters for fires. Cholesterol levels go up when you have damage to your blood vessel walls because LDL covers damage like a scab covers a wound, then once the damage is healed HDL removes the LDL and leaves repaired vessel wall. If you try to lower LDL artificially you can reduce the blood levels and think things are better but really damage is just not being repaired as well as it should be. A better option is to reduce the initial cause of the damage and let the repair process happen more efficiently.

Don't smoke, don't drink as much as possible, avoid huge amounts of sugar, exercise, sleep, and try to reduce stress. And then you can worry about not eating a credit card worth of plastic.