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The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests
The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...
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.
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The Human Brain May Have More Microplastics Than Other Organs.
A new study published in ‘Nature Medicine’ has found that the human brain contains significantly higher levels of ...
Dementia: Are microplastics accumulating in our brains a risk factor?
People diagnosed with dementia have up to 10 times more microplastics present in their brains than those without the ...
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 any.
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 ...
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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 ...
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An Entire Spoon's Worth of Microplastics Found in Human Brain Samples, and May Be Connected to Dementia
Brain samples pulled from human specimens contained 7 grams of microplastics, a weight that is similar to that of a standard ...
Study finds high levels of microplastics in human brains that appear to be increasing over time
Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount ...
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The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests
The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing ... between high levels of microplastics in the brain and dementia—it does not establish a causal relationship.
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Alarming levels of microplastics found in human brains
The study examined 52 human brain samples from 2016 and ... Kasteel says the connection is likely because people with dementia tend to have blood-brain barriers that don’t function as well ...