Discovering the ‘very shocking’ microplasty in victims of stroke in the brain

This will get your blood pumping.

Plastic – the same thing that drowns the oceans and your intake containers – may be increasing your ability to have a stroke.

In a shocking twist worthy of Sci-Fi, scientists have discovered that the arteries of the stroke patients are filled with microplastics.

Researchers studying the victims of the blow found that those who suffered strokes had 51 times more plastic blocking their arteries than people with pure health bills.

“There are some microplastics in normal, healthy arteries,” the main author Dr. Ross Clark, a medical researcher at the University of New Mexico, for Business Insider.

“But the amount that is there when they become sick – and become sick with symptoms – it’s really, really different.”

Clark and his team found microplastics and their mini-nanoplasty-on the fatty plaque that can be built into the artery, creating a quick trail in a stroke or heart attack.

“It is very shocking to see 51 times higher,” said Jaime Ross, a neuroscientist at the University of Rhode Island who researched microplastics but was not included in this study.

What exactly these microplastics are doing to our body is still a scientific mystery.

“We just don’t know,” Clark said. “Almost all that we know about microplastics in the human body, no matter where you see, can be summarized as: it is there, and we have to study further what you are doing, if anything.”

But it is certain to assume that, whatever it is, it is not good.

After all, another alarming finding was that critical genes that usually fight inflammation were closed in plastic-filled arteries along with other disturbing genetic mutations.

“Can it be that microplastics are somewhat changing their gene expression?” Clark said, adding that there is “much more research needed to completely prove it, but at least it gives us a hint of where to look.”

Ross agreed that while it is too early to determine plastic exposure causes stroke, one thing is for sure – “These plastic are doing something with these tiles.”

Scientists have found microplastics in human lungs, liver, kidneys, hearts, blood, testicles and even breast milk – and some scholars discovered a whole spoonful of them in the human brain.

Studies suggest that they can damage cells and disrupt organs, potentially increasing the risk of heart disease, cancer, infertility and other chronic conditions.

To reduce microplastics in your body, experts recommend not drinking from plastic water bottles, avoid plastic tea bags, boil and filter tap water, dig plastic cutting boards and keep plastic containers from the microwave.