Fox News says Hasan Piker used a antisemitic trope by saying Israel advocacy groups pushed for his ban. And then in the following sentence details how said groups pushed for his ban.
Scientists pulled one kind of bacteria out of a jar of kimchi, fed it to mice, and those mice pooped out twice as much plastic as the mice that didn't get it. That single experiment is behind every "eat kimchi to flush plastic from your body" headline going around this week.
The bacteria, a strain called CBA3656, sticks to nanoplastics. Those are plastic flecks so small they slip straight through your gut wall and end up lodged in your kidneys and brain. In a clean lab dish, the bacteria grabbed 87% of the plastic around it. Then the team ran it through conditions that copy a working human gut, the acid and the constant squeezing, and the grip dropped to 57%. A second kimchi strain they tried fell apart in the same test and held onto just 3%.
So the grabbing part holds up, and in those mice it did push more plastic out the other end. But two details keep this far from dinner advice. The mice were germ-free, raised with no gut bacteria of their own, nothing like the crowded gut you actually have. And the bacteria was purified and fed on its own, in amounts you'd never get from a few bites of cabbage. The team also tested just one type of plastic, the kind in foam cups and takeout boxes, so nobody knows yet whether it grabs the dozens of others you swallow every day.
The irony is almost funny. Kimchi is traditionally salted with sea salt, and sea salt is one of the most common ways plastic sneaks into food in the first place. When scientists checked salt brands from six continents, they found up to 1,674 plastic specks in a single kilogram, with the worst counts in Asian sea salts. Korean food researchers have even started swapping in pink salt to make kimchi, just to cut the plastic. So the same jar can be dropping plastic in while its bacteria carry a bit out.
Salt is also why "just eat more kimchi" falls apart. One cup of cabbage kimchi carries around 750 milligrams of sodium, more than a third of all the salt you're meant to get in a whole day. Korea eats more kimchi than anywhere on earth, and it also has one of the highest stomach cancer rates in the world, something researchers link partly to that heavy salt habit. Eating bowls of it to chase a result from sterile mice would buy you a guaranteed sodium problem for a plastic payoff no one has shown works in people.
Right now there is no proven way to pull microplastics back out of a living human body. This study is a promising first step toward one, built on bacteria people have safely eaten for centuries. But calling it a plastic detox skips every step between a purified strain in a sterile mouse and a tub of kimchi in your fridge.
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Peter Mandelson was friends with Jeffery Epstein. Instead of asking him about this, the media asked him about Jeremy Corbyn's supposed 'Antisemitism'.
Emily Maitlis, Lewis Goodall, Jon Sopel, Trevor Phillips, Robert Peston, Andrew Marr & Sophy Ridge hang your heads in shame