What’s this? Microplastics entering human brains? Yup. The results of a new study published in Nature Medicine point out that tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and entering into human brains. Moreover, the amount of microplastics in the brain appears to be increasing over time.
“There are no control groups,” toxicologist Matthew Campen, one of the authors of Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains, noted. “Everyone is exposed.” Additionally, Campen revealed that the brain is “one of the most plastic-polluted tissues yet sampled.” READ FULL ARTICLE