On average, the total amount of plastics found in the brain in each of the 2024 samples is about the same amount found in a disposable plastic spoon, say the researchers. What's perhaps even more ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. When Dr. Nicholas Fabiano broke down a recently published study that found human brains contain a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics — higher ...

And what exists on that front focuses mostly on physical health. “If you have a spoon’s worth of plastic in your brain, surely there must be impact to your mental health,” Fabiano notes.