Microplastics and endocrine disruptors

Exposure does not come from one big accident, it comes from routine. Heating food in a plastic container, drinking bottled water, eating packaged food, using cosmetics and toiletries, clothing, house dust and thermal paper receipts. Each habit leaves a small dose, and the sum of habits is what this test measures.

That is why the result reflects your recent exposure: what enters your body with the life you live now, not the one from years ago.

The analysis measures eleven substances and urine creatinine:

• Bisphenols: BPA, BPF and BPS.
• Phthalates: MEP, MnBP, MEHP, MEHHP and MEOHP.
• Parabens: methylparaben and ethylparaben.
• Triclosan.
• Urine creatinine.

These are the substances the laboratory links to thyroid, oestrogenic, androgenic and steroid disruptors, and to neurological imbalances related to sleep.

If plastics worry you, looking at one family alone leaves you blind to the others. Bisphenols, phthalates, parabens and triclosan each resemble your hormones in their own way, and all of them can be part of the same hormonal disturbance. This test measures them all in the same urine sample, so you see your full exposure, not a piece of it.

This test is done when you want to measure, with a number of your own, an exposure you have only sensed until now. Some signs often lead people to ask for it: persistent tiredness, difficulty losing weight, irregular periods, fertility problems, changes in skin and hair, a feeling of brain fog, thyroid problems or hormonal imbalances that keep coming back. They are non-specific signs, and the test does not say what causes them; it says whether endocrine disruptors are part of your picture.

It is also done with no symptom at all: because you drink bottled water every day, you work with receipts or packaging, or you simply want to know your level before changing habits and measuring again.

You buy it online, receive your authorisation by email and go to our partner laboratory in Barcelona, Valencia, Madrid or Málaga. The sample is collected at the laboratory, in the flask made for this analysis, so that no ordinary container adds to the sample what we want to measure. The laboratory gives you access to view and download your result when it is ready, and the full price is visible before you pay. A result is only as good as the lab behind it, and we chose ours the way you'd choose anyone you let that close.

What does the microplastics urine test include?

Bisphenols (BPA, BPF, BPS), phthalates (MEP, MnBP, MEHP, MEHHP, MEOHP), parabens (methylparaben, ethylparaben), triclosan and urine creatinine. Eleven substances and creatinine, in a single sample.

Does it measure plastic particles?

No. It measures the chemicals that plastics release and that act as endocrine disruptors. It is those substances, not the particles, that resemble your hormones and that your body clears through urine.

Can I bring the urine from home?

No. The sample is collected at the laboratory, in the flask made for this analysis. It is the first urine of the morning.

Does the result reflect my whole life or just the last few days?

It reflects your recent exposure. That is why it also works for comparing: you measure, change habits and measure again.

Can it be done during my period?

Better not. The laboratory asks to avoid collection during menstruation.

The results of this test are indicative and are not a diagnosis. Discuss them with your doctor.