this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

estimates that he can isolate about 10 grams of plastics from a donated human brain; that’s about the weight of an unused crayon.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure it's why humanity seems to have lost its fucking mind.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

But there is no evidence yet that microplastics directly cause poor health in humans — only data that show a link.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t really care anymore. Nothing I can do about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That makes sense. Good idea

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Insulation for my synapses

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

"I don't believe in microplastics!"

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