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Targeting dietary microplastic exposure: an emerging frontier in clinical pharmacology

Microplastics have quietly entered the human body, yet clinical medicine continues to treat them as a distant environmental issue rather than an immediate biological concern. Emerging evidence suggests that brine water used in kimchi preparation can act as potential source of microplastics contamination particularly when derived from sea salt or contaminated water sources. When ingested microplastics can persist within the gastrointestinal tract and actively interact with the gut ecosystem, challenging the long-held assumption that they are biologically inert.