Microplastics on the brain?
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Neuroscience, Pharmacy Professor Jaime Ross’ study finds ‘widespread’ infiltration, potential for serious health consequences, including Alzheimer’s.
    • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
      5•2 years ago

      This is true. Hard water reduces the amount of lead that can leach into water. I don’t know the specific concentrations etc, but it is true.

      • @SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz
        1•2 years ago

        Fun fact, when romans introduced lead pipes through aqueducts across the empire, the lead didn’t affect all populations equally because of this. Hard water regions were mostly spared. Turns out the layer of limescale that forms on pipes is also good at stopping the lead leaching.

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
          1•2 years ago

          Do water filters filter out microplastics? Although if they did i’m not too sure of the effectiveness, aside from removing maybe unsafe quantities… mainly because most filter jugs are usually made out of plastic