This startup says it can clean your blood from microplastics

This is a a Non-non-impressive list of places microplastics have been found: Mount Everest, Mariana Trench, Antarcity Snow, Clouds, Plankton, Turtles, Whales, Bettle, Birds, Tap Water, Beer, Sema arteries and blood.

My blood, specifically. At the beginning of March, I bored a few drops of my fingers and sent the sample to be tested for microplasty. I was at the Clisify Clinics London office, a company that offers to clean your blood from microplastics, forever chemicals and other toxins, in treatments that start at £ 9,750 ($ 12,636).

Every week, about 10 to 15 people enter the basement clinic right near Harley Street – a road known for its private clinics and a rich clientele. After consultation, patients settle in a chair for treatment. The blood is extracted from the cannula into a machine that separates the plasma from the blood cells. This plasma is filtered through a column that must capture microplastics and other unwanted chemicals before mixing back with blood cells and pumped back into the patient. Everything in all the process works up to two hours and enough time to process 50 to 80 percent of the volume of plasma in the blood.

“After working, you feel nothing. It’s very comfortable,” says Jael Cohen, CEO of Clisify Clinic. “Patients accept calls, make scales, watch movies, sleep. Those who sleep are my favorite.” They come for all kinds of reasons, says Cohen: some suffer from chronic fatigue, others with brain fog or long cow. The clinic also manages the treatment on the market for people for weight loss medicines in the style of Ozepik -style that seek to conceive or prevent dementia.

What clarifies them is the hope of alleviating their symptoms by getting rid of their blood from microplastics or other potential pollutants such as PFAS chemicals (Per- and Polyfluoroalkil substances) and pesticides. But the science of how microplastics affect our health is still far from categorical. A 2022 Reported In microplastics, there was still insufficient evidence to understand if they were a risk to human health. We do not know that microplastics are safe, the report concludes, but we also do not know the risks they can represent.

“The dose makes the poison,” says Frederick Been, a researcher of environmental pollutants at the Amsterdam Institute of Life and the Environment. “This is the reason why it is important to determine exactly how much microplasty or other environmental pollutants are exposed to humans.”

There were pressure from scientific documents that track the microplastics every inch of the earth and deep in our bodies, but very little try to irritate the impact they have on our health. A 2022 View the article He found that microplastics were associated with harm to human cells, but did not examine the actual health results in living people. A A study found in 2024 that people who had microplasty in the fat plaque within their carotid arteries had a higher risk of heart attacks and strokes than people who did not have microplastics in their arteries.