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Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you? (www.nature.com)

submitted 6 days ago by Espiritdescali to c/futurology

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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Blood donation is the one thing shown to help reduce plastics in your body and it has the side effect of helping others

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

That makes sense. Good idea

[–] drunkenmonkie2@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Wont new microplastics enter the blood stream eventually?