Research published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety reveals microplastics have been detected in the follicular fluid of women undergoing fertility treatments, raising alarming concerns about their impact on reproductive health. Out of 18 women studied, 14 had microplastics present, highlighting their widespread contamination. The study's lead author, Luigi Montano, emphasizes the need to understand the implications of these findings for fertility and hormonal balance, given microplastics' pervasive nature and potential harmful chemical contents, which could contribute to declining reproductive health outcomes.
This discovery should serve as an important warning signal about the invasiveness of these emerging contaminants in the female reproductive system.
Contaminating that process with bits of plastic quite likely has implications for fertility, hormonal balance and overall reproductive health, the authors wrote.
Microplastics are particularly dangerous because they can contain any number of 16,000 plastic chemicals.
These findings represent a major step toward figuring out how and why microplastics impact women's reproductive health.
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