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.
67 0 ReplyShoot, me too.
Not breathing is hard.
9 0 ReplyNot for long though.
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At this point it's become like the 80s where everything we did was apparently giving us cancer
17 0 ReplyI use 3d printers, I'm sure half my brain is plastic by now.
16 0 ReplyFr tho
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I watched a video about the fumes coming off of 3D printers (spoilers: it ain't good)
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Oh boy I can finally stop breathing to stay alive!
10 0 ReplyGood news everyone, article says nose only - just need to commit to full time mouth breathing
6 0 ReplyI don't think this is what the smart people meant when they said neuroplasticity is a good thing...
5 0 ReplySupposedly we ingest/breath a credit card worth of plastic every week.
5 1 ReplyYeah, about five grams a week, apparently: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B4TF2MQ/
5 1 ReplyWhere do the plastic go after they are inside us?
2 0 ReplyMostly down the toilet.
1 0 ReplySo thats why everyone is so fat
1 0 ReplyEverywhere. They are very, very small. Small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier.
1 0 ReplyThey don't know. It's found in sperm and embryos too.
My guess: it's the cause of low sperm count
1 0 ReplyI 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.
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Yeah, okay. Great.
3 0 ReplyDamned if you do, damned if you don’t!
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