Disturbing Discovery: Human Brains Are Filling Up With Microplastics, and It May Be Causing Dementia
Microplastics are accumulating in human brains at alarming rates, with concentrations rising 50% in the past eight years. Researchers found plastic fragments as small as 200 nanometers, possibly ...
Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says
Human brains today contain 50% more plastic than in 2016, a new study found. Brain of people diagnosed with dementia had the most.
You might have a spoon's worth of microplastics - in your brain.
New study shows plastic accumulates in the brain, as well as other body parts. Scientists don't know what impact it has if ...
You might have a credit card’s worth of microplastics in your brain — and dementia patients may have more, new study suggests
The researchers believe they’re the first to find shards of plastic in the human brain, after similar findings in animal ...
Researchers found a spoon's worth of nanoplastics in human brains — the latest evidence that plastic is accumulating in our bodies
Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the ...