If it is, I assume it’s measured in thousandths of a gram or something, but are we all nevertheless a wee bit heavier than we ought to be?
I’m not sure if you caught this post earlier today, but they say there’s enough plastic in your brain to make a credit card these days…
Holy shit… 😬
I know right?! ☹️
I really had to run a fact check on this but it really does seem to be true.
Brains are 0.5% plastic by weight and with an average human brain mass of 1.3 kg, that means humans, on average, have 6.5 g of plastic in their brain
The actual paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100893/
It’s still a preprint, and I didn’t see the exact figure but definitely concerning.
The exact data is Figure 1, chart A. It seems the mean is around 4,000-5,000 μg/g, which is indeed 0.4-0.5%
Assuming there is a brain of course. I’m sometimes doubting that in some people. Maybe it’s all plastic up there.
Boomer take
Hurr durr everyone else is a moron but not meeeeeeeeeee
Nice! Can’t lose it that way
No, but now if you lose your mind, your credit card’s gone, too.
Shit
I saw a meme earlier that said we had more than a credit card worth of plastic just in our brains so I’m going to say yes
are we all nevertheless a wee bit heavier than we ought to be?
Physics says, most plastic is lighter than water. Your body’s overall density has decreased. That makes you a wee bit lighter.
Statistics says, sick people lose weight, and microplastic makes people sick. That makes our average weight even lighter.
I’ve been eating plastic straws nonstop for days and I’m pretty sure I just levitated for a couple seconds
So what has brought you back down?
What goes in, eventually comes out the other end.
I ate some hippies, plastics’ natural enemies.
This only applies if there’s plastic INSTEAD of tissue. In case there’s plastic IN ADDITION to tissue, then it makes you heavier, but it still makes you less dense, so you can float better in water.
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