So now we’ve reached the point where “detox” means running your blood through a Brita filter? At this rate the wellness industry is going to reinvent dialysis and charge extra if you want the microplastics returned for recycling. Hard to imagine this doing much besides making your wallet noticeably lighter.

“Keith Richards famously joked in 1973 that he’d had his blood changed to get off heroin, although it was later claimed he’d had some kind of blood-filtering treatment“