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by labawi 1294 days ago
Small chemically inert substances can gunk up your cells and tissues even if they are soft.
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The don't make into your cells and tissues, because they're not digestible.

Anything bigger than a "small molecule" doesn't make it through the membranes into your bloodstream. Even individual proteins are too big, let alone a chunk of your frying pan big enough to see.

When talking about a small polymer, I was mainly commenting on microscopic flakes and lakes laced with "chemically inert" molecules that have devastating physiological effects.

Either way, what you claim is simply not true by any reasoning [1], though I do agree eating teflon flakes in moderate amounts should not pose much concern.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2020-08-micro-nanoplastics-human-tissu...