Comment on With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result?

over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holy shit… 😬

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know right?! ☹️

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    • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I really had to run a fact check on this but it really does seem to be true.

      Brains are 0.5% plastic by weight and with an average human brain mass of 1.3 kg, that means humans, on average, have 6.5 g of plastic in their brain

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      • magiccupcake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The actual paper www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100893/

        It’s still a preprint, and I didn’t see the exact figure but definitely concerning.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Assuming there is a brain of course. I’m sometimes doubting that in some people. Maybe it’s all plastic up there.

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  • callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Boomer take

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• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice! Can’t lose it that way

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, but now if you lose your mind, your credit card’s gone, too.

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    • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shit

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