Claudia has Parkinson's so I get a lot of Parkinson's related articles. This article relates to everyone.
From the article...
"Exposure to nanoplastics, micro-sized fragments of plastic waste found in the environment, mimicked the signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in tiny worms and in human nerve cells in the lab, a study reported.
Low concentrations of nanoplastics were found to penetrate the walls of the worms’ intestines and spread throughout the body, slowing the animals’ growth and altering their movements. In worms and human cells, nanoplastics also increased the number of toxic aggregates, or clumps, of alpha-synuclein protein, which are thought to contribute to nerve cell death in Parkinson’s."
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I was talking to somebody the other day about present-day Hiroshima, about how I've read that the radioactivity has long since cleared up and it's totally safe to go there. And then I stopped to think about it and had to qualify a bit. There may still be health hazards, but it would be the same health hazards we face no matter where we are in the industrialized world. Of course, microplastics would be one of those hazards.
Parkinson's is yet another beast of a chronic illness. And wouldn't it be lovely if we could avoid nano plastics. Sadly I don't think we can
Note: avoid nanoplastics.
Kirk - I think microplastics is a big one.
Sue - I think nanoplastics will be around for a long time.
River - Good luck with that.
First, we worried about microplastics. Then we worried about nanoplastics. The femtoplastics must be just around the corner.
Bill - That's scary. Female toes made out of plastic!
Sadly, the world relies on plastics too much to make the problem ever go away.
We are plastic people. They've found traces of it in umbilical chords.
Lovely. I worry about the kids coming up, Mike. Thanks for sharing. Aloha
Kathy - We'll never see plastics go away in our lifetime.
Shaw - I don't doubt that one bit.
Cloudia - And their kids and so on.
This is scary shit. it's in water that isn't bottled too isn't it? I believe that 50% of illnesses are due to our environment and our food. Food that isn't real food anymore to begin with, etc.
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