Microplastics and brain fog and focus: the research, in plain English

Every study Aelo has read on microplastics and brain fog and focus, turned into plain English. New ones arrive as the science does.

• Kids with more microplastics in their bodies did worse on memory tests.

  Scientists in China tested 5,670 children aged 7 to 10. The more microplastics in their urine, the worse they did on memory tests.

• Scientists found microplastics in 80% of the blood clots they pulled from patients.

  Doctors in China found microplastics in 80% of the blood clots they pulled from patients with strokes, heart attacks and leg clots. Stroke patients whose clots held more plastic had more severe strokes.

• Scientists found microplastics in 100% of human brains they tested. They found even more in dementia patients.

  Mice that drank microplastics did worse on memory tests.