Tag: inflammation

Microplastics in Your Gut: The Hidden Health Crisis You Can’t Ignore

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Microplastics in Your Gut: The Hidden Health Crisis You Can’t Ignore

Introduction: You’re Eating a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week Consider this: You unwittingly snack right on plastic enough to credit card every seven days. Anything to make you think it sounds like dystopian fiction? It’s not. A 2024 study in Nature conducted a groundbreaking study of microplastics that revealed these particles in 90% […]

Clonal Hematopoiesis and Blood Aging: Unveiling the Hidden Risks After 50

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Clonal Hematopoiesis and Blood Aging: Unveiling the Hidden Risks After 50

How a Harmless Change in Our Blood Can Affect Us Growing older causes mild but important changes in our bodies. A change called clonal hematopoiesis (CH) can take place, where certain blood stem cell clones take over and make it likely that individuals will develop more kinds of diseases. Some recent research has pointed out […]