Scientists uncovered a grim find when collecting samples from a human brain in recent research. The equivalent of an entire standard spoon of plastic shards were found, which could mean that a scary percentage of our brains are now ‘made of plastic’.
Human brain samples were collected in autopsies last year, and they contained many more tiny shards of plastic than ever before, researchers say. Plastic shards have also been discovered in livers and kidneys, but the human brain ‘contained seven to 30 times more’ plastic than other body parts.
Co-lead study author Matthew Campen, Regents’ Professor and professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque has voiced concern at the results – as it could mean “our brains today are 99.5% brain and the rest is plastic”…