You might have a spoon's worth of microplastics - in your brain

The number of tiny bits of plastic found in human brains increased dramatically between 2016 and 2024, with the highest amounts found in the brains of people who had dementia.

Study: "They're at a much larger concentration in the body than many of us would have expected." And they’ve been found everywhere, from the depths of the ocean to Arctic ice.

While not yet clear how, microplastic particles may enter the body when people eat, drink, or breathe them in. Microplastic particles have been found in multiple parts of human bod…