--- title: "Doctors Say They’ve Found a Way to Clean the Microplastics Out of Your Body" description: "A high-end clinic is offering the ability to cleanse your body of microplastics — so long as you can shell out for it." date: "2025-04-13" modified: "2025-04-13" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/neoscope/microplastic-blood-cleansing-clinic" categories: - "Health & Medicine" tags: - "blood" - "bryan johnson" - "microplastics" - "treatments" --- # Doctors Say They’ve Found a Way to Clean the Microplastics Out of Your Body ![A high-end clinic is offering the ability to cleanse your body of microplastics — so long as you can shell out for it.]() *\Image: Peter Dazeley via Getty / Futurism\* A high-end medical practice is offering clients the purported service of scrubbing their blood of microplastics. In an [interview with *Wired*](), Clarify Clinics CEO Yael Cohen said that her London facility's [bespoke blood-filtering service]() — which is otherwise known as apheresis and generally [used for plasma donation]() or other so-called [therapeutic plasma exchange]() procedures — is so comfortable that some patients doze off during it. "Once it’s running, you feel nothing. It’s very comfortable," Cohen told the magazine of its Clari procedure, which costs more than $12,000 [per session](). "Patients take calls, do Zooms, watch movies, sleep. The ones who sleep are my favorite." People who come to the facility located off Harley Street, home to London's [storied high-end district](), reportedly [seek reprieve]() from everything from chronic fatigue and brain fog to long COVID and Lupus. Though Cohen and her clinic claim the ability to help ease those ailments, the jury is still out as to [how bad microplastics actually are]() for the human body. While studies in recent years have established links between microplastics and [damage to human cells]() and [hearts](), that research was all, as *Wired* notes, observational. Thus far, the only thing we know definitively is that these mysterious particles have been found [nearly everywhere researchers have looked](), from [our blood]() and [guts]() and [brains]() to [archaeological digs]() and [Mount Everest](). While there don't appear to be any studies about the [effectiveness of the Clari procedure](), there's a pretty strong body of evidence suggesting that therapeutic plasma exchange in general is a [safe and effective treatment]() for some [autoimmune and neurological disorders](). In a similar vein, the desire to get those foreign and synthetic particulates out of one's blood, and to clean one's blood in general, makes some degree of sense. According to Cohen, longevity influencer Bryan Johnson's interest in so-called "[total plasma exchange]()" — a more extreme apheresis procedure he used to [get his son's blood filtered into his own]() — where all of the body's plasma is removed and replaced with proteins and antibodies, has been a big boon for her business. "He’s a big platform, and he is spending a lot of time and energy finding the things that move the needle the most," the CEO said of Johnson, a former *Futurism* investor who's no longer involved with the site. Though it doesn't appear that *Wired* shelled out for its reporter, Matt Reynolds, to get his blood scrubbed, the journalist did get his microplastics levels tested to see what the fuss was about. In a fingerprick sample of blood, Reynolds had about 190 microplastic particles per millimeter, which is apparently on the lower end of the scale. Pleased with the results, the reporter emailed Cohen. In response, she pointed out the stark truth: that he still has "around a million particles in \[his\] circulatory system!" **More on microplastics:** [*Chewing Gum Is Flooding Your Mouth With Microplastics*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()