According to a new study, samples of the human brain collected during the autopsy of the dead contained more tiny fragments of plastic than collected samples eight years ago. According to scientists, this is the equivalent of a whole standard plastic spoon of hazardous substances.

In total, the samples of the brain of corpses contained up to thirty times more microplasty than their kidneys and liver. Researchers also found 12 people in the brain, in whom dementia was diagnosed before death, five times more plastic fragments than in healthy ones, CNN writes.

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" Today, our brain is 99.5% of the brain, and the rest is of plastic, ”the professor added.

Scientists suggest that perhaps current methods for measuring plastic can overestimate or underestimate its level in the body. "

According to the researchers, they also found 12 people in the brain, in whom dementia was diagnosed before death, five times more microplasty than in healthy individuals. " Microplastics is most likely increased due to illness, and now we do not assume that these tiny particles can cause a disease, ”Matthew Campen emphasized.

Researcher of the cardiovascular system from the University in Naples Raffael Marfell said that these " He and his colleagues recently discovered that people with a large amount of micro and nanoplasty in the blood vessels have a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and death, writes Sciencenews.

“Microplastics is in the food that we eat in the water that we drink, and even in the air that we breathe,” said Richard Thompson, an expert from the university of Plymut in England, which helped to open microplastics. Of course, these particles fell into a person’s fabric, he says.

Previous studies revealed microplastics in the lungs, intestines, blood, liver and placenta of people, scientists say.