n=1 · Brisbane, Australia
There's plastic in my blood. I'm running an experiment to get it out.
Researchers keep finding micro- and nanoplastics in human blood, arteries and brains — and the dose is rising. Nobody yet knows exactly what it does to us, and nobody has a proven way to remove it. So this site does the only honest thing available: measure, intervene, re-measure. My baseline blood test, every swap I make, every result — published, graded and sourced, including the ones that don't work.
Phase: baseline. Measuring what's in me before changing anything else.
Blood particles — PlasticTox kit ordered 30 Aug 2026 (via Suede Health, A$350), awaiting dispatch. Urine chemicals — i-screen My Toxin Report (48 analytes incl. BPA, phthalates, PFAS) queued next.
Swaps already in place since Jan 2025 — see the kit. Re-measure planned ~6 months after baseline.
Start here
- The Overnight Jug: Cold-Brewed Green Tea, No Kettle Required
Half the caffeine, most of the sweetness, nothing above fridge temperature — the chemistry of cold-brewed green tea, the A$62 glass-and-steel rig from the kit, and why the lemon goes in the glass, not the jug.
- Your Tea Bag Is Probably Plastic — and Hot Water Sets It Loose
The McGill and Barcelona teabag studies explained, an honest taxonomy of the supermarket tea aisle, and the twenty-second swap that ends the question.
- There's a Spoonful of Plastic in Your Brain. Here's What I Did About Mine.
What the research actually says about microplastics in the human body — blood, arteries, brains — and every swap I made over 18 months to cut my own dose.
Know your materials
All 28 →The reference section: every material your food and drink touch — what sheds, what's safer, and what's hiding its plastic. Each entry graded against the research.
The three rules, if you read nothing else
1. Never heat plastic. The kettle, the microwave and the teabag are the best-documented particle sources in the house. 2. Don't drink what lived in plastic. Bottled water averaged ~240,000 particles a litre; filtered tap water in glass or steel doesn't. 3. Check the closures. The lid gasket, the cap paint and the can lining are where "plastic-free" keeps its plastic.