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New Detergent Sheets & Pods May Not Be So Environmentally or Health-Friendly
Toss the water-laden detergent jug away and use small, dissolvable detergent sheets sounds good, but there a catch here.
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is the final frontier that protects who and what we are. It prevents harmful materials from entering our brains and even stops medications—until now. But that’s another story about technical breakthroughs that will push medications through this barrier.
Look around you at the environment and how it can be spoiled by our throw-away culture and even our return-that-present culture. It’s disheartening, to say the least, but it’s obvious, right?
What about things that are harmful and we don’t see them or that are present in things we assume are beneficial to the environment? In fact, some things that assert being good for our world are hiding something we are trying valiantly to remove from polluting it. One word made famous from that line in “The Graduate,” is plastics.
Scientists have recently warned us of the dangers of the unseen plastic residue that swirls around us and is even found in up to 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in bottled water. The new plastic menace? Nano or microplastic bits can float their way (in the case of the micro kind) into our brains, bypassing the BBB. Once in…
