New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour
There are two macro population health trends that suggest we are somehow poisoning ourselves at a large scale.  Most people do not relate the two, but I personally wouldn't be surprised if they have related causes.<p>The first is the Flynn effect, which was rising IQ levels decade over decade, which halted and then reserved for most Western nations around 1990s/2000s and is now declining: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect</a><p>The second is the dropping fertility/sperm counts/hormone issues/etc: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_infertility_crisis" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_infertility_crisis</a><p>I think microplastics along with forever chemicals/PFAS are two of the likely culprits and are probably fairly easy to deal with.<p>I wonder what else could be contributing?