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Espiritdescali@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 2 years ago

Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?

www.nature.com

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Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?

www.nature.com

Espiritdescali@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 2 years ago
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Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
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  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    estimates that he can isolate about 10 grams of plastics from a donated human brain; that’s about the weight of an unused crayon.

  • Yer Ma@lemm.ee
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    Probs

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    Pretty sure it’s why humanity seems to have lost its fucking mind.

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    deleted by creator

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t really care anymore. Nothing I can do about it

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      Blood donation is the one thing shown to help reduce plastics in your body and it has the side effect of helping others

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        Is it because they run your blood through a filter while they’re pulling it? Or is it just that the blood we make to replace it is clean?

        I’m laughing pretty hard that blood letting is now an actually useful treatment

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          No they just remove the blood and filter it for others you just get the blood with micro plastics out od you and your bone marrow makes new blood that doesn’t have plastic in it.

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            Wont new microplastics enter the blood stream eventually?

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            That makes sense. Good idea

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    Yes. This will be the next science denial ‘debate’ after climate change (if we live that long)

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    We do have young and healthy people getting sick with no obvious explanation.

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    Insulation for my synapses

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    “I don’t believe in microplastics!”

    -1/3rd of America in a few years probably

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