{"id":162806,"date":"2023-04-25T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/plastic-used-in-food-packaging-found-in-brain-two-hours-after-ingestion"},"modified":"2023-04-25T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:25:17","slug":"plastic-used-in-food-packaging-found-in-brain-two-hours-after-ingestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/plastic-used-in-food-packaging-found-in-brain-two-hours-after-ingestion","title":{"rendered":"Plastic used in food packaging found in brain two hours after ingestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plastic-used-in-food-packaging-found-in-brain-two-hours-after-ingestion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study reflects on how these plastic particles can increase the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration.<\/p>\n<p>We have known for a while that microplastics are in our bloodstreams, making their way into our bodies through daily consumables like milk and meat. The foreign presence of micro and nano-plastic particles (MNPs) in our bodies is dangerous for obvious reasons, and they can potentially reach remote locations and penetrate living cells.<\/p>\n<p>In a scary confirmation of this potentiality, a new study has found that polystyrene, a widely-used plastic found in food packaging, could be detected in the brain just two hours after ingestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study reflects on how these plastic particles can increase the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. We have known for a while that microplastics are in our bloodstreams, making their way into our bodies through daily consumables like milk and meat. The foreign presence of micro and nano-plastic particles (MNPs) in our bodies is dangerous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}