We are literally killing ourselves and everything around us, and most people don’t even know that this is happening. But even if we could get everyone to understand the extinction-level threat that we are facing, would they change their behavior? The plastic products that we are constantly discarding do not magically disappear. Instead, they break down into smaller and smaller pieces. Today, there are trillions upon trillions of incredibly small plastic particles known as “microplastics” that have literally saturated our entire environment. You may not realize this, but microplastics now make up approximately 40 percent of the dust in our homes. Every time it rains, microplastics come pouring down from the sky, our soil is absolutely teeming with microplastics, the air that we breathe is filled with microplastics, and microplastics are in virtually everything that we eat and drink. An article that was recently published by Yale University discussed how pervasive microplastics have now become…
Microplastics have been discovered nearly everywhere, from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea to the clouds above Mount Fuji, as well as in the food we eat, water we drink, and air we breathe. In people, microplastics have been found in lungs, placentas, testicles, and bone marrow, among other organs, as well as in blood, urine, semen, and breast milk. Scientists are still investigating the potential impact of microplastics, which have been shown to damage human cells.
No matter how hard you may try, it is impossible to escape microplastic pollution.
It is literally everywhere.
Unfortunately, scientists have discovered that microplastics tend to accumulate inside our bodies.
In fact, one study that was recently conducted in New Mexico found that microplastics are actually accumulating inside our brains…
A study, posted in May, looked at the increasing levels of micro and nano plastics (MNPs) in the environment and how they might affect our health.
Researchers examined these shard-like particles in human organs – specifically the liver, kidneys, and brain – using autopsy samples collected in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from 2016 to 2024. The brain tissue samples came from the frontal cortex, which is responsible for abstract thinking, creativity, and motor tasks.
If you feel like you can’t think as clearly as you should, this may be one reason for that.
Sadly, this may also help to explain why our entire society is not thinking too clearly these days.
According to CNN, the scientists conducting this study found that brain samples from 2024 had concentrations of microplastics that were 50 percent higher than brain samples from 2016…
Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a preprint posted online in May. A preprint is a study which has not yet been peer-reviewed and published in a journal.
“The concentrations we saw in the brain tissue of normal individuals, who had an average age of around 45 or 50 years old, were 4,800 micrograms per gram, or 0.5% by weight,” said lead study author Matthew Campen, a regents’ professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher,” Campen said. “That would mean that our brains today are 99.5% brain and the rest is plastic.”
Okay, let’s allow this to sink in for a moment.
Right now, our brains are half a percent plastic.
That is bad, but consider what will happen if the amount of plastic in our brains continues to rise at a rate of 50 percent every 8 years.
If that actually happens, 28 percent of our brains will be plastic 80 years from now and everyone will be dead.
I did the math on this more than once just to make sure that I was correct.
It is being reported that the most common type of plastic that the researchers found in human brain tissue was polyethylene…
The most common type of plastic found was polyethylene, with greater amounts in the brain compared to the other tissue samples. Polyethylene is widely produced and used in things like packaging, plastic bags, storage containers and toys, according to the book Microfluidics for Cellular Applications.
Plastic products that we throw away every day contain very dangerous toxins.
Constant exposure to such toxins can have very serious consequences.
According to a study posted on the official website of the NIH, “there exists a definite correlation between exposure to micro- and nanoplastic particles and the onset of several cancers”…
Micro- and nanoplatics have been already reported to be potential carcinogenic/mutagenic substances that might cause DNA damage, leading to carcinogenesis. Thus, the effects of micro- and nanoplastics exposure on human health are currently being investigated extensively to establish clear relationships between those substances and health consequences. So far, it has been observed that there exists a definite correlation between exposure to micro- and nanoplastic particles and the onset of several cancers. Therefore, we have conducted research using PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases, searching for all the research papers devoted to cancers that could be potentially related to the subject of exposure to nano- and microplastics. Ultimately, in this paper, we have discussed several cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma, pancreatic cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, biliary tract cancer, and some endocrine-related cancers.
You have probably noticed that a lot more people seem to be getting cancer these days.
We are facing an unprecedented explosion of cancer in our society, and it gets worse with each passing year.
There are lots of reasons why this is happening, and exposure to microplastics is one of them.
Another study that was conducted on mice determined that exposure to microplastics can lead to “signs of cognitive decline similar to dementia”…
When Jaime Ross, PhD, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, decided to study how contaminating the drinking water of mice with tiny fragments of plastic might affect their cognitive function, she didn’t expect the experiment to yield much.
But in just three weeks, Ross and her team found microplastics had made their way into the mice’s brains, passing the robust defenses of the blood-brain barrier. The researchers performed a variety of tests and found that the microplastic-exposed mice started exhibiting signs of cognitive decline similar to dementia.
The more plastic that accumulates in our brains, the more difficult it will be for us to think straight.
On top of everything else, another study found microplastics in every single one of the human and dog testicles that researchers examined…
A new study found a “pervasive” presence of microplastics in human and dog testicles.
The research, published last week in the Toxicological Sciences journal, found that out of all 47 canine and 23 human testes that were examined, all had a presence of microplastics.
The findings suggest that there are potential consequences for male fertility.
This could help to explain why fertility rates have been absolutely plummeting all over the globe.
What we are facing is truly a worldwide emergency.
As I documented in my book entitled “End Times“, the amount of plastic that we produce globally just continues to go up every year, and so this crisis is growing at an exponential rate.
But even if we stopped all plastic production immediately, all of the plastic that we have already discarded would continue to break down for decades to come, and so the total number of microplastics in our environment will continue to go up no matter what we do.
It is time for humanity to admit that we have failed and to collectively cry out for help before it is too late.
But we aren’t going to do that, are we?
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