Everyday exposure to #microplastics — tiny fragments shed from packaging, clothing, and countless plastic products — may accelerate the development of #atherosclerosis the artery-clogging process that leads to #heart attacks and #strokes
#Biomedical #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/bmed11182502.html
Microplastics hit male arteries hard

Microplastics are now found nearly everywhere: in food, water, the air, and even inside the human body

Puʻuwai == heart (the pumping thing inside your chest)
I was taught to use “naʻau” (guts) for the center of your emotions, and “haka” for corticoid (what in English we call “heart-shaped”).
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #heart #HPR #HawaiianPublicRadio #hawaiian https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian-word-of-the-day-november-18th
Hawaiian Word of the Day: November 18th

Puʻuwai is Hawaiian for heart. And while it is often used as a center of emotions, that is probably a Western concept. The earliest reference to the heart in that context was in 1853.⁠

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