This thread warns about microplastics building up in our brains, harming us and the environment. It shows plastics in our food, water, air, and even in our babies. We can reduce exposure by avoiding bottled water, plastic containers, certain clothes, and wearing masks like N95s. The plastic problem is huge and growing, and it’s a serious threat to our health and planet.
There is not much that scares me. Freaks me out.
I am freaking out.
You should be, too.
Do you know what this shows?
Do you know how to avoid this?
This is the continued accumulation of dementia-causing microplastics in your brain.
See how it increased from 2016 to 2024?
And it actually is worse - they found less plastics in brains from a decade earlier.
ACCUMULATION.
Here you go. Shards of plastics in your brain, RIGHT NOW.
In the present.
This is the past - and your future.
Will future autopsies count the microplastics in your brain like the rings in a tree?
But.
There are things you can do.
Simple things to to REDUCE your ingestion and inhalation of microplastics.
And you actually are probably doing some of them already if you have been paying attention.
NO BOTTLED WATER.
FILTER your tap water. (Amazon search for filters for MPs and PFAs).
DON'T HEAT in plastic containers.
DON'T EAT meat. The production process concentrates it in your meat.
CLEAN YOUR AIR with HEPAs - ESPECIALLY in your car.
By the way, getting rid of plastics in your clothes, will help reduce your thermal plume enhanced inhalation - and your contribution of micro and nanoplastics to water.
N95s, KF94s are our friends. Let's say you are wearing a cotton T-shirt, having tossed your Under Armor skin-tight Heat t-shirt.
Your buddy walks up wearing his full rayon tracksuit.
Your local antimasker would tell you that wearing an N95 would not stop you
from huffing his microplastics - or his C0V1D.
And they would be wrong.
A little hive mind action on that tracksuit material. Worst offenders.
❌ Nylon.
❌Polyester
❌Acrylic
❌Spandex
Hmm. I wonder if the people at the back of a peloton are huffing....no, put that thought away....
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Must read thread. Hepa filter in your car was not something I knew to be doing. One thing to add. I gave up fleece years ago for this reason. Here are the worse ones https://t.co/uthK5M7C5M
Oof. Every sort of fast food container looks to be subject to this.
Interestingly, boxed wine, Bag in Box, is made of polyethylene. Which is the most common microplastic in the brain. But hey -no studies yet, so that's...fine?
Not this time. The Earth is a spaceship hurdling alone in a vast sea of darkness.
There is a formula that can be derived from all of this.
The first mass-produced plastic was in 1907.
"8300 million metric tons (Mt) as of virgin plastics have been produced to date. As of 2015, approximately 6300 Mt of plastic waste had been generated..."
Or to look at it in another way, plastic production REALLY ramped up after 1989.
There is not much that scares me. Freaks me out.
I am freaking out.
You should be, too.
Do you know what this shows?
Do you know how to avoid this?This is the continued accumulation of dementia-causing microplastics in your brain.See how it increased from 2016 to 2024?
And it actually is worse - they found less plastics in brains from a decade earlier.
ACCUMULATION.Here you go. Shards of plastics in your brain, RIGHT NOW.
In the present.
This is the past - and your future.
Will future autopsies count the microplastics in your brain like the rings in a tree?But.
There are things you can do.
Simple things to to REDUCE your ingestion and inhalation of microplastics.
And you actually are probably doing some of them already if you have been paying attention.NO BOTTLED WATER.
FILTER your tap water. (Amazon search for filters for MPs and PFAs).
DON'T HEAT in plastic containers.
DON'T EAT meat. The production process concentrates it in your meat.
CLEAN YOUR AIR with HEPAs - ESPECIALLY in your car.Great article.
Study.
You can't change your past or present.
You CAN change your future.By the way, getting rid of plastics in your clothes, will help reduce your thermal plume enhanced inhalation - and your contribution of micro and nanoplastics to water.
Great systemic review:Turns out it's not just humans accumulating plastics in the brain.
Birds, too. Hopefully not terns.Almost forgot.
N95s, KF94s are our friends. Let's say you are wearing a cotton T-shirt, having tossed your Under Armor skin-tight Heat t-shirt.
Your buddy walks up wearing his full rayon tracksuit.
Your local antimasker would tell you that wearing an N95 would not stop youfrom huffing his microplastics - or his C0V1D.
And they would be wrong.A little hive mind action on that tracksuit material. Worst offenders.
❌ Nylon.
❌Polyester
❌Acrylic
❌Spandex
Hmm. I wonder if the people at the back of a peloton are huffing....no, put that thought away....Oof. Every sort of fast food container looks to be subject to this.
Interestingly, boxed wine, Bag in Box, is made of polyethylene. Which is the most common microplastic in the brain. But hey -no studies yet, so that's...fine?One last one. I just started drinking tea (TeaForte!), and discovered our tea bags are usually made of plastic.
"People who drink tea frequently are continually dosing themselves with billions of plastic particles"
These do not:Tips on getting a small HEPA. You want low wattage (will be their tech specs. Usually HEPAs do not pull a lot).
You can also replace your car cabin air filter with a HEPA after market (Google that + your car make model. Sometimes Bosch has one).Normally, I like to end on a note of hope.
Not this time. The Earth is a spaceship hurdling alone in a vast sea of darkness.
There is a formula that can be derived from all of this.
The first mass-produced plastic was in 1907."8300 million metric tons (Mt) as of virgin plastics have been produced to date. As of 2015, approximately 6300 Mt of plastic waste had been generated..."Or to look at it in another way, plastic production REALLY ramped up after 1989.
What happened around that time?Coincidentally, that time frame is when Safeway and Kroger switched to plastic.
Now, how long does it take for plastic bags to degrade?About 20 years.
.So, for plastic bags, we are experiencing the microplastics from the highlighted time frame.
We have yet to experience most of the microplastics from the years after, like 2008 on.
And we already have X amount of microplastics in our brain.We know roughly what sort of plastics have been produced.
We know roughly how long they all take to degrade.
And we know how much is now in our brains.
THAT is the study I want to read-how much time until we are all plastic zombies?
BTW? Besides the plastics in ourtestes causing infertility, my Children of Men, we also have the fact that microplastics are ending up in placentas and in fetuses.
I have long preached pregnant women are literally breathing for two.
Maybe plastic is what will get public health to tell them to protect theirlungs.
Which would be nice as it would also protect them from C0V1D.Oof. I did not finish the initial thought.
Microplastics have nowhere to go but into becoming nanoplastics.
On this little spaceship, this closed loop, of a planet.
Do you get the existential danger we are in? Do you see this haze of plastic aerosols we are ploddinginto?
At some point THAT CAN BE CALCULATED and PREDICTED, we will exceed the capacity of our brains to handle that plastic.Nanobots. They could be injected, and chew up the microplastics small enough to be brought to a collection port.
Millions and millions of nanobots.
Whew. I was worried we couldn't tech our way out of this!
Never mind - go buy a new fleece!Great point....3D printers. Make sure you have HEPA right there with it.
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There is not much that scares me. Freaks me out.
I am freaking out.
You should be, too.
Do you know what this shows?
Do you know how to avoid this? ... This is the continued accumulation of dementia-causing microplastics in your brain. ... See how it increased from 2016 to 2024?
And it actually is worse - they found less plastics in brains from a decade earlier.
ACCUMULATION. ... Here you go. Shards of plastics in your brain, RIGHT NOW.
In the present.
This is the past - and your future.
Will future autopsies count the microplastics in your brain like the rings in a tree? ... But.
There are things you can do.
Simple things to to REDUCE your ingestion and inhalation of microplastics.
And you actually are probably doing some of them already if you have been paying attention. ... NO BOTTLED WATER.
FILTER your tap water. (Amazon search for filters for MPs and PFAs).
DON'T HEAT in plastic containers.
DON'T EAT meat. The production process concentrates it in your meat.
CLEAN YOUR AIR with HEPAs - ESPECIALLY in your car. ... Great article.
Study.
You can't change your past or present.
You CAN change your future. ... By the way, getting rid of plastics in your clothes, will help reduce your thermal plume enhanced inhalation - and your contribution of micro and nanoplastics to water.
Great systemic review: ... Turns out it's not just humans accumulating plastics in the brain.
Birds, too. Hopefully not terns. ... Almost forgot.
N95s, KF94s are our friends. Let's say you are wearing a cotton T-shirt, having tossed your Under Armor skin-tight Heat t-shirt.
Your buddy walks up wearing his full rayon tracksuit.
Your local antimasker would tell you that wearing an N95 would not stop you ... from huffing his microplastics - or his C0V1D.
And they would be wrong. ... A little hive mind action on that tracksuit material. Worst offenders.
Nylon.
Polyester
Acrylic
Spandex
Hmm. I wonder if the people at the back of a peloton are huffing....no, put that thought away.... ... Oof. Every sort of fast food container looks to be subject to this.
Interestingly, boxed wine, Bag in Box, is made of polyethylene. Which is the most common microplastic in the brain. But hey -no studies yet, so that's...fine? ... One last one. I just started drinking tea (TeaForte!), and discovered our tea bags are usually made of plastic.
"People who drink tea frequently are continually dosing themselves with billions of plastic particles"
These do not: ... Tips on getting a small HEPA. You want low wattage (will be their tech specs. Usually HEPAs do not pull a lot).
You can also replace your car cabin air filter with a HEPA after market (Google that + your car make model. Sometimes Bosch has one). ... Normally, I like to end on a note of hope.
Not this time. The Earth is a spaceship hurdling alone in a vast sea of darkness.
There is a formula that can be derived from all of this.
The first mass-produced plastic was in 1907. ... "8300 million metric tons (Mt) as of virgin plastics have been produced to date. As of 2015, approximately 6300 Mt of plastic waste had been generated..." ... Or to look at it in another way, plastic production REALLY ramped up after 1989.
What happened around that time? ... Coincidentally, that time frame is when Safeway and Kroger switched to plastic.
Now, how long does it take for plastic bags to degrade? ... About 20 years.
. ... So, for plastic bags, we are experiencing the microplastics from the highlighted time frame.
We have yet to experience most of the microplastics from the years after, like 2008 on.
And we already have X amount of microplastics in our brain. ... We know roughly what sort of plastics have been produced.
We know roughly how long they all take to degrade.
And we know how much is now in our brains.
THAT is the study I want to read-how much time until we are all plastic zombies?
BTW? Besides the plastics in our ... testes causing infertility, my Children of Men, we also have the fact that microplastics are ending up in placentas and in fetuses.
I have long preached pregnant women are literally breathing for two.
Maybe plastic is what will get public health to tell them to protect their ... lungs.
Which would be nice as it would also protect them from C0V1D. ... Oof. I did not finish the initial thought.
Microplastics have nowhere to go but into becoming nanoplastics.
On this little spaceship, this closed loop, of a planet.
Do you get the existential danger we are in? Do you see this haze of plastic aerosols we are plodding ... into?
At some point THAT CAN BE CALCULATED and PREDICTED, we will exceed the capacity of our brains to handle that plastic. ... Nanobots. They could be injected, and chew up the microplastics small enough to be brought to a collection port.
Millions and millions of nanobots.
Whew. I was worried we couldn't tech our way out of this!
Never mind - go buy a new fleece! ... Great point....3D printers. Make sure you have HEPA right there with it.
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