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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2024
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The study is about nanoplastics which are bigger. Not that you're wrong since nanoplastics also cross the blood brain barrier (in fish), we just don't know if they have any adverse effects on humans yet.
They probably do, but I'm not a biologist. They may have no adverse effects other than piling up at the levels we are currently consuming. The adverse effects are still being studied:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9026096/
So to reiterate, there is no proof that the nanoplastics are bad, so we still need studies