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Not enough people are working on the risk of microplastics in the brain (and body) on general health. This has been swept under the rug as many companies are incentivised to do so. The fact that we each have on average a plastic spoon's worth of it, and its correlation with dementia is most concerning: https://hsc.unm.edu/news/2025/_media/41591_2024_article_3453.pdf