• optimistOP
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      51 month ago

      No, plastic in the brain will not replace gray matter. Microplastics can be harmful and cause inflammation, cell damage, and other health issues, but they won’t substitute or transform brain tissue.

      • @SkybreakerEngineer
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        101 month ago

        You mean you shouldn’t listen to the Neuralink guy about the 5g in vaccines?

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    “Our Brain”? So we’re down to just one to share amongst us now? But, but… I don’t wanna be a Republican!!!

    • @thenextguy
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      1 month ago

      I didn’t know we had a brain.

      I thought we were an autonomous collective.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 month ago

    It’s good in the long run, it will help preserve our tissues so when we go extinct, some beings will have better samples to study.

    • optimistOP
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      11 month ago

      but it’s not how microplastics work. Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that have been found in various parts of the human body, including the brain. However, their presence is usually harmful and can cause inflammation, cell damage, and other negative health effects.

  • @lordnikon
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    Blood donation can help reduce Micoplastics and PFAS in your blood. So if you haven’t given blood in a while it’s worth it for a personal benefit as well as a social one.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 month ago

    So what I’m hearing is I have upcycled dinosaur bones growing in my brain… sounds pretty badass.

  • @moakley
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    61 month ago

    What’s the impact exactly?

    They say microplastics are in every organism, everywhere. Seems like a large enough sample size that we should have an idea of what kind of damage they do?

    • @[email protected]
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      111 month ago

      Sample size isn’t the problem. The problem is we don’t have a control group to compare against. Ideally, you’d compare people with micro plastics to people without them, but those people don’t really exist anymore.

    • @Tehdastehdas
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      130 days ago

      https://hsc.unm.edu/news/2025/02/hsc-newsroom-post-microplastics-human-brains.html

      … brain tissue from people who had been diagnosed with dementia had up to 10 times as much plastic in their brains as everyone else, Campen said. But while there is a clear correlation, the study design cannot show whether higher levels of plastic in the brain caused the dementia symptoms – they may simply accumulate more due to the disease process itself, he said.

  • @Hafty
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    61 month ago

    Plastic doesn’t decompose, our bodies do. Fellas I think we found the key to immortality. We must become one with the plastic.