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?
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?
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?
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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..
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%
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, microplastics are defined as fragments smaller than 5mm????? I thought it's way smaller, 5mm is big enough to see with your naked eye!
Nice! Can't lose it that way
No, but now if you lose your mind, your credit card's gone, too.
Shit