Rhonda Patrick· PhD
The hippocampus—critical for memory and learning—has a highly permeable blood-brain barrier, making it vulnerable to microplastic accumulation.
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The hippocampus—critical for memory and learning—has a highly permeable blood-brain barrier, making it vulnerable to microplastic accumulation.
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When microplastics lodge in brain tissue, they spark an inflammatory response, elevating pro-inflammatory cytokines like TNF-alpha and IL-6, linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s.
air pollution including particulate matter like microplastics has been increasingly recognized as an environmental risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease
in both animal studies and also preliminary human Studies microplastics have been found to cross the bloodb brain barrier this is a highly selective membrane designed to protect the brain from harmful substances like microplastics once microplastics are inside they can activate microgo cells these are the brain's resident immune cells activated micro can trigger neuroinflammatory responses which over time May contribute to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease like Parkinson's disease