There is no one factor that causes autism — or explains its growing prevalence. Researchers are seeking explanations for the surge. Here are some possibilities.
There is no one factor that causes autism — or explains its growing prevalence. Researchers are seeking explanations for the surge. Here are some possibilities.
The typical human has the same amount of plastic in their brain as there is in a credit card as a result of the relatively newly ubiquitous presence of plastic nanoparticles in our environment.
Frankly I’d be shocked if jamming a credit card into a human brain wouldn’t cause some measurable difference to how the brain operates.
Edit: I guess the specific reference of a credit card is still undergoing peer review! There are many published papers showing polystyrene in the frontal cortex, though.
That is not true (link is in Dutch, here it is Google translated)
That link says we don’t EAT that much plastic per week.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health
This is saying that our brains are at this point 0.5% plastic by weight.
That is figuratively no, the amount. I do think microplastics are probably the new lead and asbestos. Future generations will be like: “WTF, how did they ignore that”.
I’ve heard this too, but I have only seen news articles about this…are there any other sources that confirm this, say, like a research paper or a fact-check group?