What Is In Your Everyday Food And Water?

New Research on Microplastics in the Human Brain

Researchers at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences analyzed donated brain tissue and found microplastics at higher concentrations than in the liver or kidney.

Levels in samples from 2024 were about 50% higher than in samples from around 2016.

He acknowledges it can be hard to motivate consumers, who often shrug when warned about environmental contaminants that tend to be measured in parts per billion.

But the new findings might finally get their attention, he said. “I have yet to encounter a single human being who says, ‘There’s a bunch of plastic in my brain and I’m totally cool with that.’”