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The War on Microplastics with Dr. Leo Trasande

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It's there and it's there in substantial levels. And mind you, the higher levels were associated with dementia in those populations. Decident brains with higher micro nanoplastics, … Every American on average has about a teaspoon [of microplastic in their brain]. … the year of death, they had an annotated archive and they showed a trajectory that was upward. So it could be 0.1, it could be 0.21, it could be 1 at some point. (37:29–37:37)

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