Eva Berkes

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Led the first-in-human Qi601 study

Microplastics have turned up in human blood, kidney, and brain tissue, yet no one has shown an ingestible product can stop them from getting there. A peer-reviewed study in Frontiers in Microbiology reports the first human evidence that a heat-killed probiotic preparation can physically capture plastic particles in the mouth and gut.

Updated Oct 18