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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Microplastics cause neurological damage and anti social violent behavior?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    We are just beginning to understand how much the chemical Imbalances that lead to depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders originate in the digestive tract and how microplastics from food may disrupt the processing of these chemicals.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't think the impacts of microplastics are quite as catastrophic, they can't be or we would already know.

    Which isn't to say they aren't bad just damn lead is realllly bad.

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  • [–] [S] 29 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    We don't know about the longer term consequences yet, just like we didn't about lead.

    Not saying it's a definite but I wouldn't be surprised.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes, but plastic is a very new invention and a lot less studied than something like Pb or Hg, which are natural elements.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    My non-professional guess is that microplastics will eventually sterilize us by disrupting our sperm's ability to function properly. Only the wealthy can afford the medical procedures to bypass this.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe kids will need to be carefully sheltered from plastics until they are old enough to freeze their sperm.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    'Twould be sweet irony and a blessing for the earth.

    Although the best method for removing it I've found is donating plasma (PFAs down 30% in 6 months of regular donation, the hope is nanoplastics are also removed...) so it might be the poors (in USA) and generous that get to have kids, so that's nice...

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