A plastic spoon's worth of plastic is inside your brain, researchers warned on Tuesday, showing alarming new evidence about microplastic accumulation in human brain tissue. Published in the ...

Here’s the scoop, just for perspective, on that: the average size of a plastic spoon is 5.5 inches. Seems to me that’s a pretty big tenant to be living rent-free in my brain. And, as an added ...

On average, the total amount of plastics found in the brain in each of the 2024 samples is about the same amount found in a disposable plastic spoon, say the researchers. What's perhaps even more ...

The amount of plastic the researchers found in the average brain sample is about equivalent to a plastic spoon, Matthew Campen ... of New Mexico. "The big thing that patients need to hear is ...

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world out there as evidenced by the 892 breaking news alerts that ring, ding, beep and shriek on my phone, tablet and computer to get my attention every day. OK so I may ...

Now, a study published in Chemosphere, which wasled by researchers at Toxic-Free Future and the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment at Vrije Universiteit, gives even more reason to reconsider ...

When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed recently that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason.

And what exists on that front focuses mostly on physical health. “If you have a spoon’s worth of plastic in your brain, surely there must be impact to your mental health,” Fabiano notes.

Or sign-in if you have an account. When Dr. Nicholas Fabiano broke down a recently published study that found human brains contain a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics — higher ...