Scientists never thought this would be the key to dealing with microplastics

I laughed so hard when my friend told me this until I searched it.

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Ever since I learnt about microplastics, I have been consuming a credit card's worth of microplastics every week. And it is the same with everyone who uses plastic products in their daily life.

I was scared to use plastic products and tried replacing them as much as possible, but it finds its way to me one way or the other. The most common is the water bottles that we just can’t help buying when we are outside, and we either run out of water in our bottles, or just forget to bring one, like the clumsy idiot like me.

Well, it is possible to remove plastic products from our lives, but it still wouldn’t solve to microplastic to enter our bodies, as it is literally everywhere in the air to the food we eat. There is no escape for anyone.

WHAT MAKES MICROPLASTICS SO DANGEROUS!

I can cause inflammation, but it isn’t the worst it can do. It can affect your brain in many ways, leading to severe headaches, weakened memory, and also cause infertility. Some people develop allergic reactions to microplastics in food.

It can damage your cells and cause many types of cancers, and removing microplastics from the body has been a headache for scientists for decades, but now we have the key to save us all. And you might have consumed this bacteria once in your life.

Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656, that’s the name of the special bacteria that are only found in fermented KIMCHI (A popular Korean pickle). This bacterium acts like a sponge that can absorb microplastics very efficiently, and then it takes everything out during excretion.

I will be ordering a jar full of kimchi asap!! I want to live as long as possible and stay far-far away from all the life-threatening diseases as much as possible. I’m gonna follow what Koreans have been saying for generations.

Kimchi is not just food, it’s a way of life- koreans