according to new findings. Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times Researchers from the University of New Mexico (UNM) tested autopsy samples from 2016 and 2024. They found that over just 8 years, the amount of microplastic fragments in the brain has increased by about 50 percent. Brain samples from 2024 contained microplastics equal in weight to a plastic spoon.
Brains affected by dementia showed significantly higher concentrations of these plastic particles.
Finding such high concentrations in the brain was unexpected and alarming, Matthew Campen, lead researcher and toxicologist, told The Epoch Times during a press conference.
“People are simply being exposed to ever-increasing levels of micro- and nanoplastics,” said Campen. The particles are so small, they’re roughly the width of two COVID viruses standing side by side, he noted.
Claire's Observations: The question is, how can producers and packagers prevent this from happening?!? The broccoli coming from our small local grocery store, comes wrapped in plastic, and potatoes and onions come in plastic bags. How can this change, in the age of inflation, when even plain old root vegetables come priced "higher than a cat's back in the moonlight"?!? At a local church there is a dementia support group, consisting primarily of women caretakers of men diagnosed with dementia (my 95 year old adoptive mom also has dementia) and I am definitely going to bring this up with them the next time I do a presentation for them. This is a critical issue, and one which has to be addressed right the heck now!!