{"id":210854,"date":"2025-04-08T06:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-issue-dire-warning-microplastic-accumulation-in-human-brains-escalating"},"modified":"2025-04-08T06:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:16:30","slug":"scientists-issue-dire-warning-microplastic-accumulation-in-human-brains-escalating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-issue-dire-warning-microplastic-accumulation-in-human-brains-escalating","title":{"rendered":"Scientists issue dire warning: Microplastic accumulation in human brains escalating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-issue-dire-warning-microplastic-accumulation-in-human-brains-escalating2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study published in Nature Medicine has revealed the presence of microplastics \u2013 tiny fragments of degraded plastic \u2013 in human brain tissue. While previous research has identified microplastics in organs such as the liver, kidneys, and placenta, this study suggests that the brain may be especially vulnerable to these tiny synthetic particles.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have made a disturbing discovery: human brains contain microplastics, and at higher concentrations than other organs. Worse, brain levels have jumped 50% in just eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Nature Medicine has revealed the presence of microplastics \u2013 tiny fragments of degraded plastic \u2013 in human brain tissue. While previous research has identified microplastics in organs such as the liver, kidneys, and placenta, this study suggests that the brain may be especially vulnerable to these tiny synthetic particles. Scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210854","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}