Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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What do microplastics do to our bodies? What can we do to avoid them?
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, is a UCSF scientist who has produced seminal research on how harmful chemicals and pollutants impact health, pregnancy, and child development. She answers some of the most searched questions on the internet about microplastics.

Learn more about how to limit microplastic exposures
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/02/427161/how-to-limit-microplastics-dangers

Additional footage provided by:
-University of California Office of the President
-San Francisco Estuary Institute - sfei.org/projects/san-francisco-bay-microplastics-project
-5 Gyres - 5gyres.org