“The concentrations we saw in the brain tissue of normal individuals, who had an average age of around 45 or 50 years old, were 4,800 micrograms per gram, or 0.48% by weight,” Campen said.
That’s the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon, Campen said.
“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher”
An entire spoon’s worth of plastic in ol’ wrinkly. That doesn’t seem good.
If I eat more plastic maybe I’ll finally have enough spoons to get through the day
i was told life in plastic was supposed to be fantastic
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic. Plastic in life, it’s… blithe?
I am not good at this, I have a spoon in my brain.
there is no spoon
so the plastic tells me
Eating more than a spoonfull a day to make sure my brilliant brain is encased in enough plastic to preserve it for future generations
Of course we have one
It was in your brain, you just forgot it was there.
Must have been that plastic…spoon? In my head. Thanks.
Well you see little Timmy, there’s good neuroplasticity, and … bad neuroplasticity.
Timmy no! Put the crayon down! You’re gonna end up in the Marines!
deus ex machina deus ex machina deus ex machina“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher”
Uh, doesn’t that mean that we’re also getting more plastic, faster? I think we might be cooked yall
It seems that way to me. Also:
More than half of all plastic ever made has been made since 2002 and production is on track to double by 2040
We are also making more plastic, at a faster rate
I think part of the problem is that we’re putting plastic into the environment and that’s going into the fruit, into the veg, and into the animals, and those are going into us.
No matter how much we reduce plastic around our food we’re still ingesting plastic polluting the environment that the plants and animals are not avoiding. And more and more of that plastic is polluting that environment meaning more of it is inevitably going into us.
The only way this is reversed is by reversing plastic in the environment.
That’s like 6.5% per year, compounded. I may have a plastic spoon in my brain, but that’s a better return than most HYSAs.
Even if we stop making plastic, there’s already massive amounts in the environment.
We’re extremely doomed
As far as we know the plastic is mostly not doing anything and is possibly bioinert (thatd be lucky). We don’t have anybody to compare it to though, because everybody on earth including the uncontacted tribes has a ton of plastic in em cause microplastics are in every environment including just the rain and every plant and every animal. Would I say it’s good to have the equivalent of a plastic spoon in your brain? No, I’d rather not have it there and I’d rather us stop polluting the environment with more microplastics.
I do feel like we lost this struggle, like long term. It’s going to be thousands of years before this stuff starts to break down. We can, hopefully, make it not as bad I guess
Yeah, the silver lining here is that the reason we use plastic for everything (well, the reason beyond “oil stonks go brrrr”) is that it doesn’t really react to much of anything and is about as inert as a substance can be. And as terrible as it sounds, if there was any massively noticeable interaction between microplastics and our nervous system/bloodstream/neurons/cellular activity/etc we’d probably be dropping dead by the thousands everyday already, barring any future realization that this stuff fucks with our brains like lead exposure.
barring any future realization that this stuff fucks with our brains like lead exposure.
:yea:
I wouldn’t have spent my childhood chewing on pen caps if I had known that my food already had my recommended daily intake of plastic.
Rotating a plastic spoon in my mind
The plastic make me think real good.
Plastic makes me feel good 👻
🎶 A plastic man…sleepin in your bed. 🎶
PLASTIC PLASTIC PLASTIC PLASTIC PLASTIC PLASTIC PLASTIC PLASTIC PLASTIC PLASTIC
FEEL GOOD
FEEL GOOD
FEEL GOOD
FEEL GOOD
FEEL GOOD
FEEL GOOD
FEEL GOOD
FEEL GOOD
Feel Good.
Future generations will have their brains filled with perhaps spent nanobots or microscale 3D printer feedstock, just as our ancestors filled theirs with asbestos, lead, and mercury
Personally, I’m hyped for the new and exotic antibiotic-resistance super-bugs and parasites colonizing their bodies.
Maybe I’m too optimistic but I hope we’ll have nanobots to clean up all that crap before we stop functioning.
like in the neo-victorian times in Neil Diamond’s book The Stephenson Age where poor people cough up soot made from trillions of dead nanobots
You mean Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age
Stephen Nielsen’s The Age Diamond
I thought the headline meant the plastic could fill the bowl of a spoon, but no the fucking spoon itself is plastic
Oh the media monkeys and the junket junkies will invite you to their plastic pantomime. Throw their invitations away!
the average person has 8 spoons in their brain
False, statistical error. The average person has 1 spoon in their mind. Spoon georg who eat a bucket of lego a day and the bucket and has 8000 spoons in his mind was a statistical outlier and should not have been included
