If it is, I assume it’s measured in thousandths of a gram or something, but are we all nevertheless a wee bit heavier than we ought to be?
If it is, I assume it’s measured in thousandths of a gram or something, but are we all nevertheless a wee bit heavier than we ought to be?
I’m not sure if you caught this post earlier today, but they say there’s enough plastic in your brain to make a credit card these days…
https://lemmy.world/post/18963777
Holy shit, microplastics are defined as fragments smaller than 5mm??? I thought it’s way smaller, 5mm is big enough to see with your naked eye!
Assuming there is a brain of course. I’m sometimes doubting that in some people. Maybe it’s all plastic up there.
Boomer take
Hurr durr everyone else is a moron but not meeeeeeeeeee
Holy shit… 😬
I know right?! ☹️
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
The actual paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100893/
It’s still a preprint, and I didn’t see the exact figure but definitely concerning.
The exact data is Figure 1, chart A. It seems the mean is around 4,000-5,000 μg/g, which is indeed 0.4-0.5%
Nice! Can’t lose it that way
No, but now if you lose your mind, your credit card’s gone, too.
Shit