{"id":227463,"date":"2025-12-19T13:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/five-ways-microplastics-may-harm-your-brain"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:08:58","slug":"five-ways-microplastics-may-harm-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/five-ways-microplastics-may-harm-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"Five ways microplastics may harm your brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/five-ways-microplastics-may-harm-your-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microplastics could be fueling neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s, with a new study highlighting five ways microplastics can trigger inflammation and damage in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>More than 57 million people live with dementia, and cases of Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s are projected to rise sharply. The possibility that microplastics could aggravate or accelerate these brain diseases is a major public health concern.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmaceutical scientist Associate Professor Kamal Dua, from the University of Technology Sydney, said it is estimated that adults are consuming 250 grams of microplastics every year\u2014enough to cover a dinner plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microplastics could be fueling neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s, with a new study highlighting five ways microplastics can trigger inflammation and damage in the brain. More than 57 million people live with dementia, and cases of Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s are projected to rise sharply. The possibility that microplastics could aggravate or accelerate these brain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227463","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}