Breathing may introduce microplastics to the brain – new study
Breathing may introduce microplastics to the brain – new study
Eight out of the 15 brains studied had microplastics in their olfactory bulbs.
Thankfully it's not much but I don't think I'll deeply sniff my laundry like they do in detergent commercials anymore lol
Great. I've been breathing all week.
Shoot, me too.
Not breathing is hard.
Not for long though.
Oh boy I can finally stop breathing to stay alive!
Good news everyone, article says nose only - just need to commit to full time mouth breathing
Supposedly we ingest/breath a credit card worth of plastic every week.
Yeah, about five grams a week, apparently: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B4TF2MQ/
Where do the plastic go after they are inside us?
Mostly down the toilet.
I like to think your body just uses it to replace some other organic materials. So effectively we're now beings who are like 0.5% made of plastic.
Everywhere. They are very, very small. Small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier.
So thats why everyone is so fat
They don't know. It's found in sperm and embryos too.
My guess: it's the cause of low sperm count
I don't think this is what the smart people meant when they said neuroplasticity is a good thing...
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t!
Yeah, okay. Great.