Should you be worried that your brain probably contains enough plastic to fashion a disposable spoon? Yes you should, new research suggests. In a study highlighted by the Washington Post and published in the journal Environmental Research Communications, researchers found that mice which were regularly exposed to microplastics in their diet developed symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, in less than a month. The mice were genetically modified to have a gene associated with a higher risk of the neurocognitive disorder. But only the ones that were exposed to the microplastics showed Alzheimer's at such a marked […]

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