{"id":224405,"date":"2025-11-03T01:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/what-are-microplastics-doing-to-your-brain-were-starting-to-find-out"},"modified":"2025-11-03T01:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:06:36","slug":"what-are-microplastics-doing-to-your-brain-were-starting-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/what-are-microplastics-doing-to-your-brain-were-starting-to-find-out","title":{"rendered":"What are microplastics doing to your brain? We\u2019re starting to find out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-are-microplastics-doing-to-your-brain-were-starting-to-find-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it\u2019s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are revealing links to poor cognition and weird behaviour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it\u2019s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are revealing links to poor cognition and weird behaviour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224405","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=224405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}