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Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?

Nature 2025 20 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Max Kozlov

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Researchers and science journalists report that microplastics have been detected in the human brain, lungs, kidneys, and other organs, noting that scientists are urgently studying what health effects these particles may cause, though the full consequences of internal microplastic accumulation remain poorly understood.

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health. Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.

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