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Stefen Auris @pawb.social

9mo ago

Breathing may introduce microplastics to the brain – new study

theconversation.com

Breathing may introduce microplastics to the brain – new study

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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Great. I've been breathing all week.
- Shoot, me too.
  Not breathing is hard.
  
  Not for long though.
At this point it's become like the 80s where everything we did was apparently giving us cancer
I use 3d printers, I'm sure half my brain is plastic by now.
- Fr tho
  
  ~~grey matter~~ polymatter
- I watched a video about the fumes coming off of 3D printers (spoilers: it ain't good)
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nofn_MHrxrs
Oh boy I can finally stop breathing to stay alive!
Good news everyone, article says nose only - just need to commit to full time mouth breathing
I don't think this is what the smart people meant when they said neuroplasticity is a good thing...
Supposedly we ingest/breath a credit card worth of plastic every week.
- Yeah, about five grams a week, apparently: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B4TF2MQ/
- Where do the plastic go after they are inside us?
  
  Mostly down the toilet.
  
  So thats why everyone is so fat
  
  Everywhere. They are very, very small. Small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier.
  
  They don't know. It's found in sperm and embryos too.
  My guess: it's the cause of low sperm count
  
  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.
Yeah, okay. Great.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t!

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