Microplastics and Forever Chemicals: Why Your Body Can't Detox Them — and What It Actually Needs — The reframe

Exposure is universal. Capacity is individual. Everyone has microplastics in their blood. Everyone has PFAS in their serum. Everyone has measurable phthalate metabolites in their urine. The question isn&#8217;t whether you&#8217;re exposed. The question is whether your body can still process what it&#8217;s being asked to process &#8212; and whether the machinery that&#8217;s supposed to do that processing is still intact. For some people, it is. For many people &#8212; especially those who&#8217;ve been chronically ill for years, who have unfavorable genetic variants, who have underlying mitochondrial dysfunction or gut barrier disruption &#8212; it isn&#8217;t. And for those people, generic detox protocols aren&#8217;t just ineffective. They can be actively harmful. The right approach starts by mapping the individual biology: genetic polymorphisms, mitochondrial function, gut barrier integrity, phase II bandwidth, hormonal status, and the actual measured body burden of the compounds in question. Then it sequences the work to rebuild capacity before attempting mobilization. Then it addresses the specific loops &#8212; particularly enterohepatic recirculation and beta-glucuronidase deconjugation &#8212; that ordinary protocols never touch. That&#8217;s the work. The approach is built for the person, not the other way around. If you&#8217;re dealing with chronic symptoms you sus