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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Who had dementia had consistently much higher levels of…”

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

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The War on Microplastics with Dr. Leo Trasande

Published | Video Starts at 37:29

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, people, Cadavers. Correct. Who had dementia had consistently much higher levels of microplastics in their brain. And then they looked temporally based upon the year of death, they had an annotated archive and they showed a trajectory that was upward. (37:29–37:37)

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