I'm going to be counting on this to keep up my neuroplasticity.
I finally get to say "in mice" though I think it'd be silly not to consider whether it translates to humans...
Can Starbucks please stop packaging their tea in the plastic nets?
Is there any high quality research into the health effects? I keep hearing about how microplastics spread, but not whether that's demonstrably bad.
I found this (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151227/) , but it's a wildly broad overview, and includes claims both dubious and entirely believable, buried in tons of uninteresting stuff about how plastic can spread and how common it is.
Don't many things make their way from the gut to other organs? What does that mean? I'm all for reducing plastics, but what happens when we scaremonger and then end up with nothing is that people stop listening to warnings, even when they are true. Let's focus on real harm plastics cause that we are aware of and good solutions to disposable plastics until we have studies that definitively show harm from microplastics in humans.
I should buy some real cups and quit drinking out of solocups, but then I remember the water mains are plastic and so are pipes in the house.
Then I remember I smoke cigarettes and drink too much and I will likely expire before I'm 70 anyways.
Don't know why I'm putting money into retirement, but then again God is cruel and I'll end up being be old, weak, dumb, and defenseless at 90. With no children to be my advocate, I'd likely end up being a victim of elder abuse. Hope my gluttonous and slothful life helps me avoid the nightmarish nursing homes.