Jesse Rogerson

And so this study was like, OK, well, let's look at the water coming out of taps across the United States and the water in bottling plants and and see how they compare with specifically with microplastics and nanoplastics.

And they found in this study that, in particular in the Lake Erie area, that bottled water contains three times as many nanoplastics than regular tap water.

And the author of the study says, quote, for the average person who is thirsty, the best way to do that would be drinking water straight out of the tap.

So you heard that straight from the scientist.

Yeah.

So I guess that's a good summary of it.

There's some nuance there.

First, with this study, the reason this one was able to be so successful in finding so much as two is they were really focusing on nanoplastics, which is smaller than microplastics.

So you wouldn't be able to see them in other earlier studies.

But then they had a couple of different ways of finding them.

They were using scanning electromicroscopes and they were using chemical inducers.

And they were able to dig in deeper and smaller and find more plastics.

And it seems to be leaching from the plastic bottles themselves.

And there's a lot of studies that are showing that microplastics and nanoplastics can cross biological barriers.

So they end up in the liver, in the kidneys, in the brain.

Now, I was looking into this very question that you just asked.

know what is the biological impact here and the short answer is it's unknown at the moment though there is some scary initial findings that are that you might want to put in the category of we really need to pay attention and one was that there was a study showing from 2016 comparing water from 2016 to 2024

significantly, like exponentially higher plastics.

So we're talking like over the last 10 years, things have dramatically changed in our water, in our drinking water.

And they found in this study that there was a higher concentration of plastics in the brains of 12 people with documented diagnosis of dementia.