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Your brain tissue is 50% more plastic than in 2016

Congratulations — your brain contains 30x more plastic than other organs

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 04, 2025
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Tired of all the dire political news? How about some dire medical news instead — scientists just discovered your brain is a landfill for tiny plastic particles — with concentrations up to 30 times higher than other organs.

A cheery new study in Nature Medicine reports that researchers examined brain, liver, and kidney tissue from de…

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