• Hafty@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

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

    • pranjalmalewar@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 days 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.

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    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?

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      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@lemmy.world
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      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.

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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.

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      The plague doctors were right. We must bleed to remove the bad humors (microplastics).

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      Blood donation can help reduce Micoplastics and PFAS in your blood.

      How? By just removing the plastics with your blood and forcing your body to make new blood? Wouldn’t that mean the microplastics just go to the recipient of your blood donation?