{"id":74564,"date":"2025-04-18T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74564"},"modified":"2025-04-18T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:56:03","slug":"microplastics-detected-in-human-brain-tissue-could-they-be-linked-to-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/18\/microplastics-detected-in-human-brain-tissue-could-they-be-linked-to-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Microplastics detected in human brain tissue: Could they be linked to dementia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65658\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Microplastics-in-the-brain-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Microplastics-in-the-brain-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Microplastics-in-the-brain-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Microplastics-in-the-brain.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microplastics, tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimetres in size, have already been discovered in human breast milk, Antarctic sea ice, the Mariana Trench (the world\u2019s deepest ocean trench), and drinking water.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/microplastics-detected-in-human-brain-tissue-could-they-be-linked-to-dementia\/ar-AA1DacCv?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=0f70ce49a84e496bb803d476b95e562c&amp;ei=48\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Microplastics, tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimetres in size, have already been discovered in human breast milk, Antarctic sea ice, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Microplastics-in-the-brain.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74565,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74564\/revisions\/74565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}