• Tanis Nikana
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    268 days 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.

  • @just_another_person
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    157 days ago

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

  • @adam_y
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    128 days ago

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

    • @lordnikon
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      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]
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        27 days ago

        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

        • @lordnikon
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          37 days ago

          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.

  • @rickdg
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    58 days ago

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