From a newsletter I received from someone selling ceramic cookware.
Every time you stir, flip, or roast on a scratched nonstick pan, tiny pieces of plastic are breaking off straight into your food.
No taste. No smell. No warning.
One deep scratch in a nonstick pan can release 9,100 plastic particles. A worn one? 2.3 million per meal. (Luo et al., Science of the Total Environment, 2022)
Just millions of microscopic shards silently clinging to your stuffing, your gravy, your roasted vegetables, and heading directly into your body.
This isn’t a scare tactic. It’s confirmed science.
One pan scratch = 9,100 particles.
One old pan = 2.3 million+ particles in a single use.
See the problem?
If your cookware is coated in aging nonstick film (most likely PTFE, aka Teflon), then Thanksgiving isn’t just about turkey anymore.
It’s about how many plastic particles you’re accidentally serving.
Microplastics are not just a gut issue. They don’t get flushed out. They move.
A 2022 study found plastic particles in 80% of human blood samples. (Leslie et al., 2022, Environment International, 163).
Another recent study linked plastic particles in artery plaques to a 4.5x higher risk of heart attacks or strokes. (New England Journal of Medicine, 2024).
They’ve been found in lungs, placentas, even in brain tissue.
This isn’t fringe science anymore. It’s a full-blown health crisis, one that starts quietly in kitchens just like yours.
Because it’s not only the salt or sugar hurting your heart.
It’s what’s leaching off your cookware and getting into your bloodstream.