Microplastics are showing up everywhere in the human body, but what does this actually mean for our health?

For starters: potentially crumbling our poor skeletons.

New research suggests that the inescapable plastic particles could be weakening our bones by hindering their ability to generate new tissue. This, along with other harmful effects on bone health that the researchers found, could be contributing to a rise in diseases like osteoporosis worldwide.

“The potential impact of microplastics on bones is the subject of scientific studies and isn’t negligible,” Rodrigo Bueno de Oliveira, coauthor of a new study published in the journal Osteoporosis International, said in a statement about the work.

The work is the latest to explore the effects of ubiquitous microplastic pollution on th

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