Thursday, February 6, 2025

New study finds entire spoonful of microplastics in people’s brains — and 3 times as much in those with dementia

Your brain is 99.5% brain tissue — but the rest? Plastic. That’s the unsettling takeaway from a new study co-lead by Matthew Campen, who found microplastics in human brains at far higher levels than other organs.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://nypost.com/2025/02/04/health/spoonful-of-microplastics-found-in-peoples-brains-study/