Andrew Huberman· PhD
In terms of other environmental pollutants that are now gaining more and more interest, it's plastic. - Mm-hmm. - Micro and nanoplastics. They are everywhere. Long-term effects of that are unknown. We have performed a study where we exposed sensory hair cells to micro and nanoplastics. In fact, we exposed the entire inner ear, and it was striking to see that they were preferentially taken up by hair cells.