{"id":23626,"date":"2025-11-19T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/251118220047-htm\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:33:00","slug":"251118220047-htm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=23626","title":{"rendered":"Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics\u2014tiny particles now found in food, water, air, and even human tissues\u2014may directly accelerate artery-clogging disease, and new research shows the danger may be far greater for males. In mice, environmentally realistic doses of microplastics dramatically worsened plaque buildup, altered key vascular cells, and activated harmful genes linked to inflammation and atherosclerosis, all without changes to weight or cholesterol.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2025\/11\/251118220047.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.sciencedaily.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics\u2014tiny particles now found in food, water, air, and even human tissues\u2014may directly accelerate artery-clogging disease, and new research shows the danger may be far greater for males. In mice, environmentally realistic doses of microplastics dramatically worsened plaque buildup, altered key vascular cells, and activated harmful genes linked to inflammation and atherosclerosis, all without changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[2226,11650,10807,5066,13728],"class_list":["post-23626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-disease","tag-everyday","tag-fueling","tag-heart","tag-microplastics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}