Microplasty is everywhere. They were found in our brain, algae in the Arctic ice cream, the human placentas, beer and breast milk – but now they can be filtered out of the blood with practical microplastic detoxification, according to a luxury clinic in London.
This is the promise behind Clarify Clinics that offers expensive service to remove microplastics from your blood. Treatment includes pulling blood, filtering the plasma by a proprietary system that claims to catch microplastics and other “toxins” as forever and then return the filtered plasma to the body. The entire process takes about two hours and begins at a high £ 9,750 (approximately $ 12,600).
The founder of the clinic, Yael Cohen, says that many of her patients report better sleep, more energy and sharper focus in the weeks after treatment. Some have to deal with chronic tiredness or long covid. Others are only curious or worried about their long-term health in a world in which plastic pollution is inevitable.
Despite the sums of microplastic detoxification therapy, science remains unsettled. Microplastics have been detected in human arteries, testicles and other places in the body. A 2024 study connected its presence in arteries with a higher risk of heart disease, but has not established a direct causal connection.
Most experts, including those who agree, that we still don't fully understand how – or if – actually influence these particles. However, this treatment takes up a growing wellness trend: hyper-personalized, highly sectional organic paving for people who try to be one step ahead of aging, pollution and illness.
The market for speculative health treatments is booming from stem cell infusions on the Bahamas to a plasma exchange that is popular due to durability influencers.
Even Cohen acknowledges that more research is necessary to prove that microplastic detoxification actually makes a difference. However, she refers to the personal experiences of her patients – and her own improved sleeping data – as an early sign that this type of detoxification could do something useless.
For many of their clients, the test results feel less plastic particles after treatment as evidence. Nevertheless, there is a key problem: it is notoriously difficult to measure the amount of microplastics somewhere.
Even in densely controlled laboratories, contamination is difficult to avoid. The particles are tiny, cling to everything and float in the air. A stray fiber from clothing can distort all the results of your microplastic detoxification.
In the end, the detoxification of their blood of microplastics could offer a certain calm. Only knew that there is no scientific certainty with the treatment of almost $ 13,000 that it actually does something.