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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Almost 1% of brain volume is now microplastics.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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We're putting $140 million into the STOMP program at ARP H to look at, to track, you know, right now, microplastics. The average American has a teaspoonful of microplastics in his brain. Almost 1% of brain volume is now microplastics. That couldn't be a good thing. We know very little about the pathways by which it goes into the brain. Hundreds of components in microplastics, hundreds of different kinds. (1:33:50–1:33:54)

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