It makes sense.
Not only is it easier to look in someone balls than someone's brain, the fact that it can cross the blood brain barrier is pretty fucking crazy.
It's not like someone said "we gotta find out if this can get inside testicles stat!" It's that between cancer and fertility issues balls are looked at pretty frequently, and we found micro plastics there.
The reason we found it in the brain. Is someone asked if it was possible and that's a big enough deal to go out and look.
96It's much easier to get tissue from testicles than a brain sample. About 10,000 men develop testicular cancer annually in the US. Plenty of test can still be ran on those testicles if the patient consents. Getting a aample of brain tissue usually requires the donor to be dead, and there is a long list of scientists that would loke to stidy brain matter for one reason or another.
43Not to mention that gender affirming surgery increases the likelihood that doctors will have access to testicles for research.
I mean, not by a lot but it's a hell of a lot easier to survive donating your testicles to science than it is your brain.
16The amount of people who donated theor body to science is overwhelming. So much, that lots of bodies can't be used. Some niche ectomy doesn't increase the samples here.
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Loke To Stidy is my new band name.
4That makes much more sense than what I was about to reply: priorities.
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I guess that's the burning I smell when I think too hard.
31The balls or the brain ones?
16Yes.
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To be fair, I'd bet that there are more men willing to ejaculate for science than people willing to have their brain analyzed for science.
22In fact, forget the science
29I’d ejaculate my brain for science
5Sapiosexuals rise up. Then ejaculate.
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So we're going to start banning plastic right? Will the last human left please turn off the lights.
21fucking helllll, i pretend a lot that i don't care about the downfall of the human race because i'm trying to fake it till i make it into not caring
but between global warming, microplastics, rise in extremism, late stage capitalism, wars and genocides...
i'm really starting to believe we might be one of the last generations of modern humans left.
4We made plastic for your brain, youre welcome.
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I grew up with teachers saying the brain is incredibly plastic so it makes sense
19My mom used to say my brain is monke
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Do microplastics actually look like those in the picture? I always thought they were so small we couldnt see them
11Probably a visualisation in terms of weight, not size. Imagine that much liquid ig.
Extremely concerning nonetheless. Lead asbestos level
11those came from the ocean
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Why do we find microplastics in humans but not other common substances (e.g. steel, wool, etc.)? I'm not too familiar with why this is happening
10Any foreign objects made up of substance that are non-reactive can end up embedded in our bodies. Most obviously, there are medical devices that might permanently be left there: screws, prosthetics, artificial meshes and valves and membranes, etc. There are also some foreign objects that come from trauma, like shrapnel. Even tattoos are foreign pigments placed in a particular layer of skin that the body doesn't have a mechanism for clearing out.
But generally speaking, if our body doesn't have the enzymes to break down a substance into constituent compounds small enough to transport out, or if that foreign substance sits in a place where our body doesn't have a mechanism to actually get to, it stays in the body.
The reason why we're talking about microplastics, though, is that these compounds might actually be more reactive than previously assumed. If the plastics don't break down at all, then there's no chemical reaction byproducts to worry about. But if they break down very slowly, and the products of those reactions interfere with our biological processes in those tiny quantities, then we have a problem.
11Because Steel and Wool degrade into their chemical components by chemical reactions (like oxidation or mold). Plastic wont, it gets smaller and smaller but it stays plastic. So Steel and Wool "skip" being really small, they become other chemicals nature can work with.
(this might be wrong, pls correct if so)
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(also everywhere else)
9So those chunks of plastic were in a brain, eh? See that's what happens when you grind LEGO in a blender and then snort rails of it.
8I just put the small pieces up my nose. No need to grind. Those hand pieces from the little people are ideal. Pull them out the arm and right up the nose. Then a 1x1 block to push it all the way up there.
3no, in the ocean.
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Real talk: the balls are kinda important because it's where the sperm is produced. If that is polluted, it may lead to birth defects or infertility.
8Not to mention there's a huge number of humans that don't use the other organ we're discussing.
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Even now, regular meghan is still thinking about plastic and balls. Nonstop. I’d think that’d be exhausting.
7There are macro plastics in my sack
2"I can't stop thinking about.." is such a tired trope in posts. I never have believed it a single time.
-5"...I never have believed it a single time" is such a tired tripe in comments. I can't stop thinking about it.
13This is in some way clever. So much so I'll die obsessed with it
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When your victim complex is so strong that you have to invent new microaggressions to continue feeling persecuted instead of thinking logically for 5 seconds.
-12what are you even babbling about
12Sir and/or Ma'am, this is an article about micro plastics. Please keep moving along
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