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You Might Have Plastic in Your Brain. Don’t Panic — Yet.
It’s unsettling, but the amount is probably less than the plastic spoon’s worth grabbing the headlines.
How much is too much?
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When a CBS News medical correspondent claimed this week that we’re accumulating a plastic spoon’s worth of plastic in our brains, her colleagues looked horrified, and for good reason. Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery.
You probably don’t have quite that much of the stuff in your brain, but the idea of any plastic piling up there is still unnerving.