Your brain could be 0.5% plastic

Research in the effects of microplastics on human health is evergoing and not a month passes without a new finding in this field. But this week an article was published in The Guardian about microplastics in the human brain that has left us speechless. 🫣

MAIN TAKEAWAYS FROM THE ARTICLE:

● Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight. 🤯

● Brain samples contain 10 to 20 times more microplastics than other organs, making the brain one of the most plastic-polluted tissues yet sampled. 

● Brains of people that had Alzheimers disease contained up to 10 times more plastic by weight than healthy samples.

● The quantity of microplastics in brain samples from 2024 was about 50% higher from the total in samples that date to 2016, suggesting the concentration of microplastics found in human brains is rising at a similar rate to that found in the environment.

Studies have detected microplastics practically everywhere in the human body: brains, lungs, placentas, reproductive organs, livers, kidneys, knee and elbow joints, blood vessels and bone marrow.

Studies have detected microplastics practically everywhere in the human body: brains, lungs, placentas, reproductive organs, livers, kidneys, knee and elbow joints, blood vessels and bone marrow.

According to Sedat Gündoğdu, who studies microplastics at Cukurova University in Turkey, “it is now imperative to declare a global emergency” to deal with plastic pollution.

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