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Our blood-brain barrier is being overrun by the plastic micro and nano debris we now have in our environment and the foods we eat and drink due to human pollution and production.
Welcome to another fact-based article from Strength by Fitness.
The human body is a marvel to behold, and it boldly goes where we desire it to venture. Always up to the task of remaining as healthy as possible as we plow our way through the winding halls of life. Better yet if we give it a fighting chance by carving a health-promoting lifestyle with good quality foods, that are rich in protein and nutritionally complete while lifting weights, and doing a range of aerobic activities.
All this is a marvelous thing to experience and it translates to a human mind, and body that age with grace, and perpetually improve across our healthspan.
In most ways, for most of it at least.
But, there is this all-encompassing thing called the environment which we can not escape from. As it is, our environment is this symbiotic entity that is made up of both our natural planetary home, called Earth, as well as the ongoing impact of our man-made choices.
People used to disregard the way we affect our own health locally speaking via the choices we make on a daily basis, be it our personal food choices, the way people discard trash, produce energy, exercise, and move about, or the gas stoves that emit airborne pollution inside of peoples homes.
Many still overlook this immense impact, of course. Just as how we still have far too many that continue to smoke, eat “shit”, consume alcohol and drugs, and yes, pollute and not exercise.
Our blood-brain barrier is being overrun by the plastic micro and nano debris we now have in our environment and the foods we eat and drink due to human pollution and production.
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Globally speaking, this disregard for cause & consequences becomes even more apparent in the way far too many still do not acknowledge the importance of a healthy planetary home and the fact-based suffering and harm we are causing both ourselves and our planet by our refusal to live in a sustainable way.
The blood-brain barrier and plastic pollution.
So, following this short introduction I have drummed up, we have finally arrived at the core of my article. Man-made plastic pollution and the way it encapsulates everything in our earthly home by now.
Even our brain.
Every brain in the study was contaminated with plastic particles.
In one recent study, which took place with the cooperation and approval from the University of New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a subset of brains, 12 in total, out of the 91 that were studied, came from people who had died with some form of dementia, and these brains displayed on average, an additional 10x amount of plastic by weight than the other brain samples in the study.
More data from this study.
Livers, kidneys, and brains of all the autopsied bodies in the study all contained some degree of plastic pollution.
But as disturbing as that is ( and if you do not find it disturbing that our bodies are forced to pile up and store man-made plastic pollution inside their organs and joints you need to rethink a thing or two about the way you view how humanity behaves ), it gets worse.
How can it get any worse you say?
Plastic pollution in knee, and elbow joints..
Well, for starters, the 91 brain samples in the study all contained more plastic particles than the other organs of those bodies and the amount of pollution in the deceased bodies increased between 2016 to 2024.
Indicating, together with all other form of health, and environmental data we have that this is only going to get worse.
Plastic pollution in the knee, and elbow joints.
This is not a unique study, however, other recent studies have found plastic pollution in knee and elbow joints, testicles, pancreas, lungs, our blood, and pretty much every human organ there is.
So the question becomes, what can you do since our ruling politicians and corporations refuse to act responsively while they carve their profit on your health woes and our crumbling planet?
You can choose healthy, and safe tap water instead of bottled water and drinks, and if your municipality has failed at providing safe, clean, and drinkable tap water only to offset the production of essential fluids to profit chasing, and harmful bottled water and beverage companies, demand better from your county, city and nation.
And demand it now.
You can opt for whole foods instead of eating out or endlessly buying premade foods. The more processed the food, the more exposure it has had to plastic particles and pollution from the human production chain. Not to mention the lackluster nutritional makeup of restaurant food and premade storebought foods compared to the high-protein, high-satiety, and nutritionally complete foods you can whip up at home.
You should further choose foods without unnecessary plastic wraps and packaging and demand more of that in the stores since this is sadly an endangered rarity.
You can buy and drive less personal cars and travel more by public transport.
You can opt for clean, and sustainable energy instead of fossil fuel and natural gas. And you should demand national energy producers to be forced to transform their dirty grid right now.
You can say no to fast fashion and buy fewer brand-new clothes and gadgets at large. Keep your stuff longer, and fix what can be fixed instead of throwing it away.
All this is basic, but really solid lifestyle changes you can do.
These small choices will not make the real problem go away since plastic pollution is a man-made problem that exists all around us by now.
It is found in the air we breathe, the clothes we dress in, the water we drink and swim in, the animals we farm, the lands that grow our crops, the cars that transport us, the gravel and tires of roads and cars, paint, fossil fuels and all.
Plastic pollution is sadly found these days in the deepest parts of every ocean, and the peaks and valleys of every mountain and country. It is found in the salt we add to our food, it is found inside of every human beings bloodstream, inside the tummies of whales and birds.
The problem is humanity, and the solution that is needed is a system-wide change to proper, perpetual sustainability.
Perpetual sustainability at home, in our individual lifestyles, and out there in society at large, across every city and country across this entire globe, we call our home.
A major global shift will take time, of course, but the changes you can do today you really should do today, because this is about our health right today and tomorrow. We are not talking about a far away distant future.
The ongoing impact is already here, and your health is already suffering.
So as it is with our need to eat healthy high-protein foods in a healthy amount and energy balance while we exercise enough every single week for the rest of our life in order to not turn into boneless piles of dying unhealth, this problem too exists today and neither of us can afford to delay the essential changes we can and have to individually make in order for change to happen for us personally.
So as Nike likes to say, just do it.
No matter if that is you cementing your gym habits in stone, eating more whole plant-based foods, piling up more protein, taking longer walks, or kicking that gas stove to the curb and replacing your car with a public transit card, deleting your fast-fashion phone app and voting for a politician that understands the need for healthy tap water and clean energy production.
What you can do today shouldn’t be pushed into the unknown future because that delayed change only perpetuates the problem further.
We also published this article over at Medium, read it here if you enjoy the Medium reading experience.
Cited data.
1. Our World In Data. Plant-based foods versus Omnivore.
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares – Our World in Data.
2. Plastic pollution in our brain.
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