• Hafty@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Plastic doesn’t decompose, our bodies do. Fellas I think we found the key to immortality. We must become one with the plastic.

  • moakley@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    What’s the impact exactly?

    They say microplastics are in every organism, everywhere. Seems like a large enough sample size that we should have an idea of what kind of damage they do?

    • ThePunnyMan@lemm.ee
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      2 hours ago

      Sample size isn’t the problem. The problem is we don’t have a control group to compare against. Ideally, you’d compare people with micro plastics to people without them, but those people don’t really exist anymore.

    • pranjalmalewar@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 day ago

      No, plastic in the brain will not replace gray matter. Microplastics can be harmful and cause inflammation, cell damage, and other health issues, but they won’t substitute or transform brain tissue.

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    1 day ago

    Blood donation can help reduce Micoplastics and PFAS in your blood. So if you haven’t given blood in a while it’s worth it for a personal benefit as well as a social one.

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    It’s good in the long run, it will help preserve our tissues so when we go extinct, some beings will have better samples to study.

    • pranjalmalewar@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 day ago

      but it’s not how microplastics work. Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that have been found in various parts of the human body, including the brain. However, their presence is usually harmful and can cause inflammation, cell damage, and other negative health effects.