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Breathing may introduce microplastics to the brain – new study(theconversation.com)

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Thankfully it’s not much but I don’t think I’ll deeply sniff my laundry like they do in detergent commercials anymore lol

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MisterD@lemmy.ca
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Supposedly we ingest/breath a credit card worth of plastic every week.

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Voltage@sh.itjust.works
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Where do the plastic go after they are inside us?

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ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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Everywhere. They are very, very small. Small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier.

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BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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Mostly down the toilet.

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Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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I like to think your body just uses it to replace some other organic materials. So effectively we’re now beings who are like 0.5% made of plastic.

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MisterD@lemmy.ca
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They don’t know. It’s found in sperm and embryos too.

My guess: it’s the cause of low sperm count

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Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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So thats why everyone is so fat

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