Finger Nails & Microplastics

Where do you leave your fingernails when you clip them? Dangerous Dave talks about a YouGov poll that says some just let them lie where they were cut. Plus, how many microplastics are we breathing in every day.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Steber in the den with dangerous date. Well,
this is kind of an oddly specific question for legitimate
polling place to ask, but they did. When you clip
your fingernails and toenails, where do those clippings go when
you're done the pulling outfit? You go ask five thousand Americans,
three percent admitted they just leave them where they lay,

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wherever they fall, that's where they go. Throw them in
the trash as a top answer at seventy three percent,
flush them at seven percent, throw them outside at five percent,
a little weird, but okay, toss them in the sink.
The sink, that's a little weird, and leave them where
they fall at three percent. Young men more likely to
leave them where they lay, which isn't shocking. Four percent
said they never clipped their nails. They're either biers, are

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going to the nail salon where they're going for a
Guinness World record. I don't know for the rest of us.
The average person clips her fingernails every week or two
two weeks was the most common answer. The most common
place bathroom forty percent, bedroom, twenty three percent, living room,
thirteen percent, outside eight percent two percent. Clipper nails in
the kitchen. Let's hope those are the sink people and

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not the leave them fall where they lay people deeper
in the two. Well, you're breathing bad air in your
car has nothing to do with the rotten stuff that
your kids left abandoned, like the fossilized chicken nuggets or
the banana peel that's now liquefied black goo. According to
a new study, adults in hail about sixty eight thousand
microplastic particles indoors per day. It's about three to four

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every breath. It's about one hundred times more than earlier
estimates based on larger particles. Car cabins had four times
the number of particles than our homes, mostly because a
lot of the plastics are in an enclosed space, breakdown
due to temperature changes in UV exposure. On one hand,
is bad because these tiny plastics can carry toxins, get
lodged deep inside our lungs, enter our bloodstream, cause inflammation,

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hormone issues, even cancer. The good ish part microplastics are everywhere,
so you just can't avoid them. The hope is that
studies like this will bring the awareness to the dangers
of microplastics and inspire changes in products and designs to
target them. Might be wondering about that cabin air filter,
by the way, in the vehicle that you're always wanting
to replace during oil changes. If you can get a

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HEPA filter, they say that actually does make a difference
inhaling microplastics? Is that any worse than the air? The
guys down the hall and the other studio are given off.
Tune in again for another episode of Deeper in the
Den with Dangerous Dave Right. Dear