Scientists studying ‘Parkinson’s belt’ believe disease is linked to chemicals

[@justingarretson2054]

It’s almost like spraying billions of tons of chemicals on crops, land and water sources is not a good idea

[@ewe392]

It's almost like the industrial revolution ruined our planet and ruined our species. But hey, we get cheap easy and convenient items out of it right?.

[@AA-iy4gm]

On the opposing side of common sense we have: 1. Greedy, heartless corporations and 2. Ignorant people that callously throw around phrases like. "We all die someday" and "water is a chemical"....as if dosage and type of chemical doesn't mean anything and as if dying of natural causes peacefully and dying a slow painful death and previously having been sick for years is the same thing...Unbelievable.

[@ashleylala4293]

Haha, I know right? How could we possibly have known that poisoning every aspect of our environment would be bad for our health? Too many perverse incentives going on. We have allowed illness to reach dangerous levels of profitability.

[@SherryHill-k5y]

@@justingarretson2054 There called forever chemicals but I'm sure you knew that.

[@stache1954]

Pesticides designed to attack insect's nervous systems.

[@stickynorth]

THIS is why air pollution laws need to be strengthened not weakened. This should never be just "the price of business" paid for in the blood of the innocent and the workers...

[@codjh9]

Air & water both.

[@craven5328]

Yup. Let's everyone be clear and not whitewash how "the free market" is actually regulated: It never regulates itself through some magical, pristine, invisible hand...and as they say, nothing is "free". Any regulation that happens results once the market has blown a hole through the bodies, minds and lives of PEOPLE. We wear the costs daily. We pay for the costs out of our already vanishingly short lifetimes. Don't fall victim to the free market absolutist / neoliberal ideology that is mealy-mouthed about these "negative externalities".

[@AdamEdward]

yeah def dont vote for drumpf then

[@ashleylala4293]

The mainstream media propagandists are not giving the full story, as usual. Please check out a documentary named The Dimming. We really need a populace that is informed on this issue so we can put a stop to it.

[@williamlouie569]

It's profits over people!

[@justayoutuber1906]

Thank DuPont and 3M for the "forever chemicals" now in every persons body in the USA

[@AaZz-x7p]

and farmers and GOP who fail to regulate businesses and to protect our environment.

[@LilyoftheValeyrising]

All because people don’t want their eggs to stick. Should have just used butter. SMH

[@novampires223]

And they will never be held responsible will they? I hate big corporations.

[@Gobble_de_Goop]

No.. thank pharmaceutical companies for ruining the water table. Any idea just how many trace rx meds are currently in your tap water? I urge you to investigate it if you're not aware.

[@eliporter3980]

It's not just the US. They sold those PFOS chemicals globally and have essentially poisoned the planet.

[@anadverseeffect]

This is why the chemical industry cannot be allowed to go unchecked

[@thegheymerz6353]

I guarantee theres a lot of money thats put toward libertarian movements to push for de-regulation so they can do whatever they want.

[@Will-ql5db]

In other words, you see the logic of Government regulations on business (But, Trump is anti-regulation). However, the Dems aren't any better, they take $$$ from the same industries to lower the penalties for breaking regs.

[@jseanpopcornkelly6372]

it did, wake up.

[@Will-ql5db]

that's why we need regulations, someone should tell Trump. He's likely only using RFK Jr for his supporters (look at his 1st term in office), in order to win the election.

[@finleywright3480]

How many more stories do we need to hear like this before we start holding corporations accountable?

[@rogerwilco2]

Those corporations pay your politicians the money they need to win elections. The problem is money in politics.

[@patricialongo5870]

@@finleywright3480 can you work and live without them? In green lives or green jobs? No, because we voted to have no such choices.

[@TheCampsiteRule]

We need to overturn citizen United and FEC vs McCutcheon, get money out of politics, corporations will never do the right thing on their own they are motivated by greed, we have to release our politicians from their grasps.

[@i.ehrenfest349]

As long as money rules America, that is never going to happen

[@triciac1019]

Remember Trump removed some of those regulations that kept the companies from polluting and making it so they didn't have to clean up their contamination.

[@DanL57]

The herbicide Paraquat has a very strong link to Parkinson's. It is banned in more than 50 countries, but it is still widely used in the US.

[@Happiness379]

What is it used for in the US?

[@kristinharris4750]

@@Happiness379 agriculture

[@blissrose01]

I got my MPH at Tufts in Boston. My favorite professor went up against the EPA for their Paraquat negligence! This is fact based and we will see in 10 years paraquat seriously linked to Parkinson’s. It’s shown in rat studies. Big ag doesn’t want to till their farms. They say it’s to avoid another dust bowl. They feed America.

[@justingarretson2054]

@@Happiness379 they spray it on green weeds and they are black within a few hours. Stinks too

[@kristinharris4750]

@@rhyothemisprinceps1617 this info about Paraquat is also on the Environmental Working Groups Website.

[@scottlathrop66]

My grandfather was a food chemist for Con Agra and he had Parkinson's. It always made me think it was chemicals.

[@danthomas6587]

It probably was. Hope he found somemrelief.

[@kathyverrelli5170]

Maybe insurance companies should pay for regular monthly metal and other detox treatments for people in these areas, as this step could potentially stop or drastically slow down the disease providing a longer and better quality of life. Our family's DNA has coal miner history. I have 2 half sisters with this disease. I have been told by my doctor that it tends to run in the father's side of the family. We have different fathers so he said I don't need to worry. I wonder how true that is.

[@Jim-yl4fi]

DuPont grandpa here. Died a few years ago of Parkinsons

[@derek4412]

@@Jim-yl4fi I hope heaven is as beautiful as I imagine it

[@colin-nekritz]

@@derek4412it’s not real and pure folly but if you can also believe in Santa, there cool.

[@susanb4816]

Chemicals should be proven safe before use, not proven dangerous before removing them

[@Katepwe]

They are.

[@Tad-For-Global-Peace]

Google: How Trump launched the biggest dismantling of EPA, FDA, and Financial protections and regulations in American history. Trump was one of the most aggressively anti-regulation president ever

[@chrisrunyan331]

@@Katepwe This is not true in the United States, look up TSCA. The EPA has no authority to prevent new chemicals to come on the market and companies have no obligation to investigate human or environmental long term exposure beyond MSDS. Chemicals are treated innocent until proven guilty, which is the opposite of how most of the developed world operates. Additionally, companies don't even have to reveal the specific chemistry of their patented products, so it becomes very difficult for environmental researchers, government officials, and lawyers to trace where the problem chemicals are coming from, thereby making the burden of proof extremely high on the side of the environmental prosecutors. We have many laws which dictate the careful examination of human and animal health from pharmaceuticals before they are allowed to go to market, why not other chemicals made by companies that are allowed to be sprayed and dumped everywhere?

[@AlbertMark-nb9zo]

@@chrisrunyan331 - Truth. The EU has a different approach to these chemicals. It is a distinctly different approach.

[@genevawhite3178]

So right there. But getting off them will be very hard.

[@JXY2019]

That scientist literally gave his health for science. Respect.

[@deborahwhit9583]

Trust the science 😂

[@gg-gn3re]

lots of them do, give their entire lives and time dedicated to their studies. Corporations also pay to get fake studies to keep their leaded oil and pesticides production going.. another set dedicating their lives

[@DL-up9pr]

No he literally said ‘I was a little careless with handling the Rotenoe’ which is a highly toxic chemical

[@jasmineali5699]

As a child of an immigrant here this was always obvious. I notice our elders had very different set of sickness than multi- generational born Americans. Cancer is also not that common among us. My mother may not have finished school but she always aware that something was wrong with the food system here.

[@patricialongo5870]

My father studied and treated these illnesses and was politically so conservative that the idea of a safe environment enraged him.

[@victoriadedicova]

Yeah. We never had any of those illnesses and mental disorders. The amount of cancer, neurological damage, and chronic illness in US always amazed me. The best thing I did was move the heck out of there.

[@cherin6703]

@@victoriadedicovacan’t wait to do the same. Waiting on visa approval now.

[@kerrynight3271]

@@patricialongo5870 I remember on the first Earth Day back in 1970. My very conservative aunt snarled, "I don't know what GOOD it could do." Just the very idea of cleaning up the planet enraged her.

[@joefer5360]

@@kerrynight3271 Neo-Politics, liberal or conservative, is a plague.

[@charvakkarpe]

I love the self-awareness of the researcher who recognizes how studying Parkinson's could have given it to him. It's like Marie Curie dying from radiation.

[@jeannerogers7085]

Paraquat is chemically related to Agent Orange.

[@Dangermouse8645]

@boop-u6uExactly. 😂 A PhD in neuroscience made a deduction that the thing he studied could have harmed him?? Shocking.

[@joannesheaffer9522]

@@Dangermouse8645 Your compassion amazes me.

[@karlnordinger5968]

Just conjecture " it is as likely as not " that lab work was cause .

[@joannesheaffer9522]

@@karlnordinger5968 Maybe a part of the deadly stew?

[@ucnguyeninh7957]

I used to wonder why the US had the audacity to keep rejecting Vietnam's lawsuit against their use of Agent Orange during the war. Now I understand. They don't even hesitate to poison their own people, either

[@dabrams84]

Corporations are very powerful in the US and treat normal people like we are peasants.

[@jonboz7585]

@@dabrams84. EXACTLY

[@theurbanthirdhomestead]

That's because we're not "their own people." In fact, the group doing this has their own special food for "their people."

[@sandtx4913]

During the fakedemic of 2020 I was shocked of the many things I had discovered and was totally unaware of before. One of them was the many secret US g0vernment/CIA pr0jects/operations involving their own citizens, which they used as guinea pigs. They have been used for mind c0ntrol programs, drug experiments, chemical experiments, medical experiments, psychological experiments, food experiments, radiation experiments. Experiments that are still ongoing, everyday, worldwide. They have even signed world treaties, contracts, legalized and normalized it. These people are pure ev!l. I'm from the EU and we're not far behind. So many people are unaware of the depths of this ev!l system we live in. They use the legal and political system (which they have created and can make changes to) and then do the conditioning of the public through their education system, media and entertainment industry. This is a small group of people that have slowly over nany centuries destabilized, destroyed and taken control over the rest of the world. They have been planning this for hundreds or even thousands of years. They serve a different god.

[@jigpig6184]

There is no “they”. No one is in control, there is no one to hold account and no one to be angry with, there is only ourselves

[@sassysls1851]

How many of these chemicals have already been banned in the rest of the world for decades?

[@judewarner1536]

If you're talking about the USA... many of them. In Europe, for example, you have to prove that food additives are SAFE, before you can use them, while in the USA you have to prove they are DANGEROUS before they'll stop using them... the price of capitalism is early death and diseases. Google international average lifespans.

[@justayoutuber1906]

Actually most get banned in the US or EU then are exported to other countries to keep up sales. Like DDT

[@AaZz-x7p]

All of them, but one poorly educated group of our country refuses to believe in scientific processes.

[@blessingsoutlaw]

@@AaZz-x7pAnd one extremely greedy group pays politicians to ensure their use continues…

[@MrMarkOlson]

The EU protects its citizens from toxic chemicals than the USA. Money corrupts.

[@daffyduck9753]

My brother went to college in Davis, CA...he was diagnosed at 28, and they say it's been in your system for a few years. He was an Anthropology major, and was outside around the pesticide-heavy area of Cali. 3 brain surgeries later at Massachusetts General, no more shaking/perking, but he couldn't swallow well and passed at 56 weighing 105 lb. And it ALL could have been avoided...all these people suffer every day. Much love to all of you out there having this hanging over your lives.

[@mikeyKnows_]

Was he a red head? It's true that they have a higher chance of acquiring it.

[@daffyduck9753]

@@mikeyKnows_ nope...dark hair...his doctors felt it was due to the heavy concentration in such a short time..

[@havable]

If oil companies are any indication, chemical companies have known about this since the 1950s.

[@dianeyoung8068]

This is what happens when industries are allowed to be deregulated. Thank all the billionaires that run the governemnt by paying off politicians.

[@jt6231]

And also all these ultra processed food. No wonder so many young people get cancer. It is pretty scary.

[@alohaworld]

Project 2025 wants to dismantle the EPA and enviro regs. This will get much worse.

[@Tad-For-Global-Peace]

Thank republicans who vote against regulations. U.S. boardrooms have become more Republican and more partisan over the past decade, according to a new study. The study, published last month in the National Bureau of Economic Research, drew on voter registration data on more than 3,700 executives from nearly a thousand S&P 1500 firms. And it comes as corporations are under pressure to take stands on politically charged issues such as voting rights, gun violence and abortion.

[@oofballz4328]

@@Tad-For-Global-Peace don’t act like democrats arent bought out by big pharma now 😂

[@dianeyoung8068]

Thanks for this information.

[@quengmingmeow]

So every toxic chemical has a “safe level of exposure” for the human body. But what happens if we are exposed to every single chemical known to man, but each at a “safe” level? It seems logical that the body has a threshold of “total toxic exposire”, and once that threshold is exceeded, the body starts having adverse effects. So just because the exposure is “safe” doesn’t mean that it isn’t adding to the total toxic load the body can handle.

[@bethhanna9118]

Exactly

[@CrabbyOldLady]

"It seems logical" is what's called a hypothesis.

[@TheSinkingGarage]

It's not just that. I think it's the chemicals being mixed in your body that cause problems as well.

[@alohaworld]

This isn't true. Lead for instance is viewed to have no safe level. But your overall point is correct -- the chemical load taxes the health even if not at toxic levels.

[@Me97202]

“Safe levels of toxins” is corporate propaganda.

[@DanL57]

Earthjustice sued the EPA in 2021 for allowing Paraquat to remain in wide use. A National Institutes of Health study found that workers who have used it are 2.5 times more likely to develop Parkinson’s, and an earlier study found that people who live near the fields where paraquat is sprayed have an increased risk of Parkinson’s. Yet the EPA reauthorized the widespread use of paraquat without addressing its neurological risks.

[@anneb889]

EPA, just like the CDC, FDA, etc….all paid off from these mega industries using these chemicals in our products and food.

[@risenshine2783]

That is criminal!

[@curiousbystander9193]

more like the gly in the food wrecking the biome... see ibs increasing in step neurological issues..... biome destruction leads to cerebellum shrinking

[@trailrider7046]

Lobbying by corporations can be evil. Big Agra is to blame. Vote Trump /Vance and get RFKJr. as a bonus to make America healthier.

[@CopingwithGrattitude]

Good to know

[@runronnierun7213]

Shout out to these old folks not quitting! I hope I have the same heart if I'm ever in their situation.

[@BillyBob-tr3jr]

"Disease is linked to chemicals" might be the most generic and always true statement ever.

[@CeeTee380]

Wasn’t it established years and years ago that chemicals, including dry cleaning chemicals and pesticides show like a 80% increase Parkinson’s?

[@AmazingJane137]

Correct. It’s been known for years.

[@Adam-hp5hj]

Spread the word

[@theleefamily6446]

Yes. Yet somehow it’s forgotten or dismissed.

[@alberttang6955]

I had a Korean American coworker who told me both of her parents AND her older brother were all dead or soon to die from cancer. All 3 stricken family members worked for many years, operating a small dry cleaning business. I couldn't help but think daily exposure to those chemicals might have contributed to the cancer. 😢

[@AI-vs7sm]

Having actually been in dry cleaning, I remember this condemnation of dry clean solvent in 50s and 60s. They were just sure that if it smelled strong, it must be bad. The trichloroeythelene that they talk about is used as a touch up agent , if there is a small smudge of grease or makeup on clothing ,after it is clraned. It evaporates quickly, like rubbing alcohol . It is not used as a cleaning solvent in the machine. The machines have been good at containing the fumes in the machine ,as clothes are rinsed in fluid and then dried ,in the same machine, before being removed from the dry cycle. The more fluid reclaimed and recycled, the less money it costs the owner to process clothing. So, the whole idea is to reuse the existing fluid after it is distilled to remove grease. Spent filters are properly sent to recycling/ recovery facilities. . The most exposure in a cleaners is usually the spot removers at a spotting board , for stubborn spots. That's were you will find toulene, acetone and acetic scid, all chemicals that are sold in paint stores and drug stores! Look in your nail polish remover, acetone? But, according to this , its the dry cleaning that is doing it. I'm 77 years old, frequently had my hands in it to clean the lint traps. Still ticking, NO MEDICATIONS, NO DISEASES, ketogenic/ low carb diet tho! Not saying there is no problem, just saying look at aluminum factories, using the same perchloreythelene, just magnitudes more of it. Local plant got complained t from nearby trailer court of smells, so, they did the right thing. They bought the court, and then told the residents to get the help off our property. See? Problem solved. That was easy!

[@nathanstevenson1190]

My father, a farmer in Iowa, diagnosed with parkinsons and dementia at age 69. Too young. I have long thought the chemicals he used were responsible.

[@LucasHirlDudeCity]

Sorry to hear this. My family's all farmers in Iowa and my Mom was recently diagnosed w/Parkinson's. My prayers to you and your family

[@infomercialwars]

Unfortunately this is just scratching the surface of what corporations have poisoned the environment and the world population with at this point. I say this as someone who grew up in a steel town and grew up with industrial pollution. None of the people responsible will ever face consequences either.

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

@@infomercialwars the pulp plant pumping mercury into the Wabigoon river in Ontario Canada was owned by Boise-Cascade and the decision makers are in New York. No consequences.

[@tpop3723]

My mother just passed away last week from this cruel disease. Please for the love of god find a cure.

[@stephaniek2913]

❤

[@chiquita683]

We were supposed to have affordable care

[@Happiness379]

😢

[@vermiliongamboge155]

@@chiquita683 We have more affordable care than we did before the Affordable Care Act became law.

[@kathyverrelli5170]

@tpop3723 I am so sorry for your recent loss. I have 2 younger half-sisters with this disease who, right now, are able to keep symptoms under control with meds. I was told by my doctor that it, genetically, runs more on the father's side of the family.

[@shawnholbrook7278]

This is why unregulated business is bad.

[@carflk916]

My grandfather and his sisters died from Parkinson’s. They grew up in Pittsburgh.

[@bekind4018]

So once again , man is to blame for his own suffering. So incredibly sad.

[@julienrockingham-ip4co]

Life, and greed

[@ludovician]

The monster is man etc.

[@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart]

Don’t forget NOT smoking cigarettes.

[@mellocello187]

Greedy corporation leaders to blame. The rest of us didn’t vote for this.

[@sadepennbrook]

And then they tell you “we don’t know why.”

[@brybryguy6314]

There is more to this. It's not just older people being diagnosed with Parkinson. I live in Pennsylvania and I know 4 people who was recently diagnosed with Parkinson and they are in-between the ages of 36-42. Pretty young to be diagnosed with this

[@broncosbest6441]

What on 🌍 is going on! I’m in the U.K. I’ve never heard of that. One guy I worked with got it in his late 50s and we spoke about it for years because it was such a rare occurence

[@cpnbd]

I remember reading about Mr Rogers growing up in PA with severe asthma due to the industrial pollution…of course, he passed of stomach cancer before anything else, but I wonder if being cooped up inside kept him from getting Parkinson’s

[@Aniram789]

That could be due to better diagnostics. Parkinson's disease starts young, by the time a patient is showing symptoms it's already been years of the disease doing it's damage.

[@Ameborl]

all diseases are affecting younger & younger… diabetes used to be called “adult onset diabetes”… now children have type 2😢. Our country is a mess

[@fleecejohnsonn]

The industrial revolution and its consequences...

[@andrewpierce1588]

America is a business…not a nation.

[@Tad-For-Global-Peace]

We just passed the CHIPS act, a new plant is being built in my state and creating thousands of jobs. Businesses are essential in a society and with proper regulation (which republicans fight against) work well.

[@Potato-mu7nu]

​@Tad-For-Global-Peace this is on the Dems too, our whole govt shares the burden.

[@Tad-For-Global-Peace]

Wrong: I’ll name a few democrate sponsored bills which passed despite Republican obstruction, and people can verify congressional voting records for proof: Republicans voted against Biden-Harris Administration first-ever national drinking water standard to protect communities from exposure to harmful per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as ‘forever chemicals,’ as well as $1 billion through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda which helps every state and territory fund PFAS detection and treatment systems to meet the new standard. Republicans blocked this and other measures for addressing PFAS pollution, safeguard public health, and advance environmental justice, AS WELL AS Biden Cancer Moonshot goal of cutting the cancer death rate by at least half by 2047 and preventing cancer before it starts by protecting communities from known risks associated with PFAS exposure. Another block: Bill To Combat Super-Pollutants and Bolsters Domestic Manufacturing with New Programs and Historic Commitments. And for air, the Environmental Protection Agency $20 billion in grant awards under two competitions within the historic $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), which was created under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The three selections under the $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund and five selections under the $6 billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator will create a national clean financing network for clean energy and climate solutions across sectors, ensuring communities have access to the capital they need to participate in and benefit from a cleaner, more sustainable economy. By financing tens of thousands of projects, this national clean financing network will mobilize private capital to reduce climate and air pollution while also reducing energy costs, improving public health, and creating good-paying clean energy jobs in communities across the country, especially in low-income and disadvantaged communities. Historical obstruction to EPA regulation by republicans is easy to Google and then verify by looking up their voting records on the bills,

[@croissantsavant]

@@Potato-mu7numainly the conservative dems. See the trend? Its not reoublicans or dems its the conservatives that hold everyone back

[@Go4Broke247]

No need outside enemy's, it's our corporations that's destroying us within.

[@cherri400]

My mother owned a cleaning business for over 20 yrs. and she worked basically 7 days a week. She cleaned bathrooms & kitchens and used Tilex. My mother suffered from Parkinson's Disease and passed from its complications on March 11, 2024....I often wondered if the Parkinson's was brought on by the Tilex she used for so many years.

[@AlmightyDude420]

Good reporting. This needs to be more talked about

[@EhCloserLook]

It makes sense... if toxic chemicals gain entry into your body, your body will malfunction. Hopefully we can reverse this trend in the near future.

[@TheChupacabra]

The profit has been taken, the yachts purchased, the political influence gained. How can we reverse the trend? Who is going to pay for the cleanup?

[@Gobble_de_Goop]

Guess what also constitutes "toxic chemicals" which your body will undoubtedly react adversely to? I'll give you a hint... pharmaceutical corporation products administered by needle.

[@chiquita683]

Its climate change probably. Look how much health has changed over the last 30 years

[@ReginaRedding]

These two comments are overflowing with common sense.🤯Great to see that it still exists 🙌🏼 🎓🏆🥳

[@ThomasEdison-dd8ms]

@@TheChupacabramy grandfather was a chain smoker and he had Parkinson’s . He wasn’t a redhead 🧑‍🦰. The study shows smokers are less likely to get it 😂.

[@Tipperary757]

RoundUp is still on shelves in Home Depot despite ongoing class action health lawsuits.

[@theleefamily6446]

They changed the formula to even more dangerous poisons. They took out the glyphosate and added a variation of chemicals depending on the use. One has 2,4-D and Dicamba, which are worse than glyphosate and very highly prone to drift. They are also prone to volatilization, which is lifting off surfaces as a gas, starting at 59 degrees, and drifting with wind and temperature inversions to nearby surfaces.

[@SweetStuffOnMonarchLane]

​@@theleefamily6446 I knew that's what they would do.

[@Katepwe]

Courts have been dismissing cases because there is no SCIENTIFIC evidence to prove it’s unsafe. Cigarettes are still on shelves decades after it’s been proven beyond a doubt that they cause cancer.

[@beadblaster9508]

Glysophates are used on almost grain crops . They are sprayed prior to harvest for faster drying. Also those delicious small potatoes, they spray the tops prior to harvest with glysophates.

[@michaelimbesi2314]

Glyphosate had been determined *not* to be harmful to people in the quantities used in herbicides. Most of the stories the average person has heard about it are misinformation, often spread by people without the basic level of scientific understanding required to tell fact from fiction.

[@sadepennbrook]

My dad worked at a car manufacturing company for 4 decades as a machinist coming home from work smelling of petrol and covered in oil. My mother would give him the silent treatment many times and I had arguments with him when we found out he wasn’t masking at work. He’s now living with MSA-Parkinson’s. A more debilitating and fatal threat than just Parkinson’s.

[@Happiness379]

Oh my it’s unfortunate he didn’t want to listen to any of you. 😔

[@SherryHill-k5y]

@@sadepennbrook I'm so sorry. My uncle worked for a huge well known chemical plant and got asbestosis of the lungs.😪 No one said anything sbout wearing a mask then.

[@RebekahCurielAlessi]

Oh. So sorry. Prayers for your family. 🙏❤️

[@Shelly-m5t]

Many hard workers can be the sickest, because they weren't afraid of any kind of work.

[@ThisIsATireFire]

A lot of it is peer pressure and management giving them a hard time. I worked as a welder. Most people don't think about all the metal fumes welders inhale. I had to do some confined space work so I pulled the n100 pancake mask out of the bottom of my tool bag and put it on. The amount of grief I got from co-workers telling me not to be such a wimp was ridiculous. But I knew how much black stuff I blew out of my nose when I got home every night. I knew it'd be so much worse in a confined space with poor air flow. At the same job I was one of the only people who wore earplugs. I remember being told by a shop manager to "take those things out" because he didn't want to have to walk across the shop to get my attention. I refused if I was in the shop. I'm 40 now and still have excellent hearing. But have lung nodules that have to be monitored to make sure they don't turn cancerous.

[@hoptoi]

This is nothing new. I remember a neighbor telling me in the early ‘80’s that her mother had Parkinson’s, and they thought it was from the chemicals she used in gardening. This was around 1982.

[@linjp2773]

Yet our government whose first responsibility is to protect its citizens continues to turn a blind eye.

[@pjglory3348]

Yes! Same for a dear friend’s mother. She gardened and never thought twice about handling all the chemicals she used on her garden without gloves or respirator. What a shame!

[@janetdungan2878]

i think this group is brilliant. my father passed away from Parkinsons and from diagnosis to death it was 11 long years and I watched him decline in the worst way. Even the VA treated him like dirt. I'm so happy these individuals are getting help, exercise and most importantly social support to keep their spirits up when things are physically and emotionally difficult and you have someone who knows what you are going thru. Its just amazing.

[@jenniferdowns322]

My dad just passed from SPS which is related to Parkinson’s. He was a farmer and used chemicals to an extent. Such a sad disease.

[@AaZz-x7p]

Such greedy stupid farmers grow poison food to poison the people.

[@The-Rain-Ninja]

Yet people dump lawn chemicals weekly on their yards... their pets and kids playing in it day after day. Why are we so ignorant to the obvious. We need to find some serious healthier alternatives.

[@lisamac8503]

and no one needs to dump anything on their lawns Why must we poison everything?

[@louisehogg8472]

@@lisamac8503 agree.

[@barbarapaige4587]

@@lisamac8503 And no one needs a lawn either. There's plenty of alternatives.

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

AND they don't read the label so think "more is better". I see SKID LOADS of this stuff in the USA that in Canada we parcel out in small amounts, in locked cabinets, and in some clases you need a provincial pesticide license to apply them. In the USA, freedom fry rules: POUR IT ON.

[@reviewportaladministrator26]

My neighbors have their kids spray herbicides with terrible smell.

[@cosmo9034]

My grandpa lived in a big city. He walked around, took public transportation, and met with friends/family regularly. He was pretty independent but it was so hard watching him choke on food, and the shaking was hard to watch. He passed away once COVID started. I think the isolation made his disease progress much faster. I'm blessed to have seen him before he went.

[@AaZz-x7p]

Isolation makes people stronger.

[@cosmo9034]

@@AaZz-x7p not for the very very elderly

[@MsAuriauri]

the exact same thing happened to my grandfather - sending you all the love and support!

[@mrs.carter4775]

Why isn’t COVID censored when talked about “causing” deaths???

[@cathynewyork7918]

@@AaZz-x7p NO - isolation has proven to weaken people, both mentally and physically.

[@PeterBooth-jn4gc]

Lost my dad to Parkinson’s in 2023. It’s a terrible way to go.

[@carolyng.6405]

When I was in my early 20’s, I made the decision to prioritize a clean, more natural environment to live in, and make job opportunities the lesser priority, after being raised in a commuter town near a large city. As an older person now,I am grateful for that choice.

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

I moved back to Canada for just that reason: the moment I turned inland from Venture towards the SF valley, my nose started filling up with snot (a filter). I had been ujp north for two weeks and simply never noticed in LA as it was "normal". A year later, I was GONE.

[@rebeccamartin2399]

I work with a guy who has it. He has never spoken of it, and I never ask but every day I make sure to have his back any way I can.

[@sonyaparkin7841]

💚💚💚💚

[@XYZXYZXYZXYZHOES]

Why don’t you consider marrying him? Maybe he’s the one for you.

[@amatulfulani6390]

@@XYZXYZXYZXYZHOES Helping someone doesn’t mean you should be romantically linked to them. Just help someone to be kind.

[@cathynewyork7918]

@@XYZXYZXYZXYZHOES This is a nasty comment.

[@PoeLemic]

Good for you, @Rebecca. Nice that you care for another person and are there to help there or protect them when you can. I always do that for other people too, whenever I can.

[@chrisbuckley8807]

My grandmother worked in the family grocery store in the 1920’s-30’s. They procured their produce from local farmers in and around Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. One of her jobs was to unpack the produce, by hand, after it arrived from the market. There is no telling what pesticides/chemicals were used back then by these local farmers - nothing was regulated. Years later, she developed Parkinson’s Disease. I have no doubt that her exposure to those chemicals on that produce for so many years took its toll and contributed to her Parkinson’s.

[@HealthyPlanet]

My background is in critical thinking with The Foundation for Critical Thinking. For over 30 years I have been promoting and organic farming and buying organic foods. My grandfather was raised on an orange orchard in Florida. He contracted Parkinson’s, and I often wondered if this happened to him because of chemicals used on the orchard. Thanks.

[@reviewportaladministrator26]

"Organic" produce also has lots of chemicals. Some "organic" just labelled as organic. You cannot even grow your own organic if your neighbors use hebicides and pesticides.

[@T3H8]

If the justice system doesn’t hold corporations accountable, what remaining options are there?

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

OSHA got going hard in the USA in 1970, and it's the justice system that is supposed to BACK THIS UP. You have to step back and protect people, and certain cultures are simply not interested in that at the top. has little to do with the legal system: if you have to go to court to stop this, you've already lost time, prevention, exposure, and the chance to catch up.

[@clr977]

My landlord is a 75 year old 3rd generation farmer. I rent a house on his 300 acre property, he has two about 3 minutes apart totaling some 700+ acres of farmland and woods. He has Alzheimer’s Dementia and Parkinson’s. He still sprays his land including 50 feet from my home and yard where my kids play everyday, I now have a 2 month old also. I tell him I don’t like it that close. He tells me it’s safe. I’m not gonna wait 30 years to find out it wasn’t as safe as told by the people who make it and their business partners. I want to move. I hope in the future counties will do more studies on the land and water shed in areas that had prior or ongoing farming and other industries that have been known to dump their liquid waste etc. I live in a valley in central PA where all the water runs down and through my street. For decades all this land has been sprayed, there used to be silica brick factories all around, mining above and underground as well. I don’t care that it happened. But it would be welcomed if more tests were done. My town has 2000 people and a very large rate of child and teen cancer, which is alarming. I’ve been here 5 years and have learned all of this in that time. Sorry for the crying, but seeing this video just concretes the things I’ve been thinking for over 5 years, but much more so because of the last 5 I’ve been boots on ground. We really don’t know what we do to the next generation until it’s too late.

[@ZombieOrkinMan]

WTH is wrong with you? MOVE, for chrissakes. Since you know so much about this but you stay anyway means you yourself are to blame for what's happening to your own children

[@trailrider7046]

Tell him he already sprayed it and doesn't remember it😅

[@averyillies40]

Leave, your family and legacy depends on it. You already know what to do. ❤

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

ALL of Jimmy Carters siblings died young of fairly rare cancers. I'd love to see an study of what they were exposed to on their farm in Georgia. Since Jimmy was considered a "savant" or gifted student from an early age, he was often NOT on the farm during the growing season growing up. If you have an area like the state of Georgia where you can grow almost anything, BUGS and plant diseases also THRIVE. So POUR IT ON. Don't read the label, we're busy.

[@judewarner1536]

Four times the "estimated" national average. Estimated, because the disease is almost certainly under-reported or confused with similar neurological diseases.

[@Crismodin]

We prioritize profits in this country, not safety. Our healthcare sucks, the sooner Americans figure that out before they are in world-ending life-shattering medical debt, that would be great, but for some reason every time we're about to change for the better someone has to throw up the words socialism and communism and immediately everyone runs back to big business for protection. Big scary government can't protect us but that public major corporation whose only goal is rewarding shareholders will definitely keep us safe.

[@Emily-ot5ri]

My stepfather has it. He was showing symptoms for years, but the doctor refused to give him a diagnosis until recently because he could walk in a straight line. Never mind the obvious tremors and dementia. It’s crazy how dismissive healthcare workers can be in this country.

[@celebrityrog]

Welcome to the reasons why we need an EPA.

[@crismcdonough2804]

And the heritage foundation wants to do away with that according to project 2025. Vote democrat for your own health.

[@sandyhugheskawaii8730]

@@crismcdonough2804 💯It blows my mind that anyone would want to live in a more polluted world, especially if they have kids!

[@LGM2000x]

Hey dumb dumb, We have the EPA and guess what? We have all these problems still. Know why? Government agencies have always been staffed by people bought and paid for by the very companies they are meant to regulate. And guess what else? Doesn't matter if a democrat or republican is in control- nothing changes.

[@aliannarodriguez1581]

⁠@@sandyhugheskawaii8730I don’t understand it either. It’s like somebody shot up half the country with a stupid ray. It used to be that pretty much everybody wanted to avoid chemical exposure that might hurt them, now you have candidates campaigning on a platform of getting rid of all environmental regulations and people cheer. Do you think they don’t make a connection between environmental regulations and clean air and water?

[@ChristinaPeaHouse]

Thank you for sharing your research and stories; this will help billions.

[@reviewportaladministrator26]

Hpw does it help? People around me just keep using galore of chemicals.

[@joseph.8759]

My uncle was a chemical engineer who immigrated to America in the 1990s. He told us he believed there was a link between some materials being used in food. He was retired at that time and didn't have access to data or health information. He was particularly concerned with moving away from glass bottles, saying carbonated drinks could interact negatively with aluminum cans lined with plastic and affect the human body.

[@bobbray9666]

My brother-in-law has Parkinsons. When he was a kid, he helped his farmer dad in the fields and was exposed to pesticides like paraquat, which is suspected of causing Parkinson's. His dad died of Parkinson's.

[@tumbleweeduk7479]

There is an interesting video on “EONutrition” utube, “Fighting Parkinson’s Disease with Vitamin B1 An interview with Author Daphne Bryan. Also I have seen many comments on Carnivore/Keto Videos where people have cured and improved Parkinson’s. There is hope! Namaste

[@lseh4720]

My father had a restaurant and I remember him walk in after the fumigators sprayed, but without any protection. I was only 9 years old and recalled thinking this was not right. The guy walking out is in protective gear and my dad just walked right in, unprotected. My poor dad suffered for 30 years and died suffering from him. So sad.

[@jimwilliams3816]

I have various stories in that vein, though not with the sad end your dad experienced - though the exact consequences are hard for me to know. I recall my grandfather, who worked in textile machinery, bringing home a piece a raw asbestos, because he knew I liked rocks and minerals. At maybe age 7, I remember looking at the fibrous rock and thinking it didn’t look safe to touch or be around. My grandfather never developed lung problems, but I doubt all his coworkers were so lucky. Given my own neuro issues, I wonder at times what impact my youthful exposures had. I was born well before lead paint was banned, and grew up in an old farmhouse which had plenty. I think the kind of anemia I had may the type that can result from lead exposure, and I don’t know if I was tested, that wasn’t yet standard. I also remember visiting a canoe factory with my parents, and being out on the production floor: the smell of solvent was overwhelming, and it was the same smell as a construction adhesive which was still available at least in the early nineties, but which was known to be a neurotoxin. But “better living through chemistry,” right??

[@123a-o5d]

@@jimwilliams3816 Is being around lead paint enough? AFAIK you would need to ingest it somehow, most likely through sanding or scraping and therefore painters or builders would be most at risk.

[@BoneStack117]

Rubbing doors, windows, any minor abrasion over time from day to day activities in the home can result in airborne or loose lead dust from the paint. Everytime the window in a bedroom is opened and closed, a bit of that dust could be produced, thereby exposing any occupants to it.

[@IlIlllIllIlIIIll]

This is why emissions need to have zero limits. You produce, you need to contain or destroy it.

[@petercollingwood522]

Right. Because you'll be real happy living in a cave with no technolgy beyond a club and flints. Wether you like it or not human civilization will never be zero emission or zero side-effect. Sucks. But thats how it is.

[@shanet7511]

Who's gonna pay for this containment? Are you gonna buy my buttplug?

[@nonyabidness5708]

Unless you want 100% nuclear, we'd all die. That's an impossible goal.

[@omnipi]

@@nonyabidness5708 nah we’d just be living without a lot of modern “conveniences”

[@Aalisrocklist]

in the south of Texas, it is well known that it is due to the pesticides used back in the day, when the children (today's elderly citizens) would be bathed on pesticide when they would be sprayed by airplanes on the fields!!! I didn't know that this was not a well-known fact! well. there you go, this needs more publicity.

[@quesomom5437]

My dad told me that when he was a kid they were encouraged to chase after the DDT fumigator truck that would go up and down the streets fogging everything. People thought it would help keep you from getting lice and other parasites.

[@bevbond6152]

This happened in the UK too. My father was born in 1936. He was sprayed in the fields as a child by airplanes (possibly Paraquat, I’m not sure). As an adult he used Roundup without proper protection. Not even gloves. He died from Parkinson’s. It’s a terrible disease. He never suspected that chemicals he was allowed to use would harm him. I grow as much of my own food as possible organically, but fear this disease as I too grew up on the family farm.

[@harry130747]

Another aspect is the use of cropduster aircraft in the past to spray these chemicals. The stuff drifted everywhere.

[@billnseattle]

Many years again, I knew a florist who had this disease. I always thought it was from chemicals sprayed on plants.

[@LoreleiMission]

Dad grew up on a farm where pesticides were used. When my father was a young adult, he worked in a factory where at times they cleaned vats of fluid pesticides with their hands holding the equipment -- no gloves, and the fluids would coat their skin. In his 30s my dad would pesticide-spray the back yard with no covering, and my mom remembers he'd let the stuff get all over his arms and hands. Dad's Parkinson's symptoms started at age 50. He later volunteered for many studies including the brain implant study (first time he found out he was a placebo subject, second time he did get the implant). He died at age 72 from Parkinson's complications.

[@ginnymiller2448]

I’ve been saying this for years. My grandma had Parkinson’s. She was born in 1924 and grew up in Chico, California, which was very much an agricultural town at the time. The chemicals used back then were just as bad, if not worse than those today.

[@deborahwhit9583]

In the water if you live near farm areas.

[@T.Cochrane]

Total armchair comment here, but our area in the prairies of Canada are rife with MS and Parkinsons, my in-laws have both. Almost all were raised through the old way of farming which was to cultivate the land intensively. This practice has largely been phased out with what is called no-till, where the ground is not as torn up. I remember as a kid we would have dust storms where the dirt would drift across the roads like snowdrifts, and you couldn't see the neighbour's house across the street when it was blowing bad. I can't help but think the culprit might be laying dormant in our soils and when the settlers came out and tore up the land it started to have an effect. For example there is known areas of I believe Saskatchewan where Anthrax is naturally occurring in the soils, as well as Radon in areas of Alberta.

[@river8760]

Yes, the MS rates in AB are the highest in Canada. 😢

[@dunweyweydum]

Ignore the O & G industry & blame Nature lol, must be a ucp'er 😅😅

[@river8760]

@@dunweyweydum If you’re talking to me I’m absolutely not a UCP er! O and G is heavily regulated.

[@tiakushniruk7744]

My dad just got diagnosed with parkinsons at 72! He was a farm hand when he was younger. Gonna look into this particular comment! The smoke has been really bad here recently the past couple of years as well :/

[@tiakushniruk7744]

​@dunweyweydum I think that you're not wrong - it might have something to do with oil and gas production as well - but I would be curious about the size and area of what is affected by the oil and gas stuff? Like does it stretch all the way down south to calgary, and up north to the northwest territories? Or is it a small radius of affectation? Curious...

[@caitlinweiss8801]

To think we have this much evidence and people still want to end the EPA

[@CelticDruidess1]

I have a family friend and a deceased uncle who were used as aerial spraying "land markers" and who both got sprayed by chemicals and both got Parkinson disease. Yes...that practice was common ...I can't speak for now. My uncle passed from the disease and the family friend is still alive - he was diagnosed in his 30s if I'm not mistaken. My uncle didn't get diagnosed until he was around 65-70. My uncle was used as a marker down in TX and my neighbour was used as a marker in SK - both N.American countries.

[@jennieoh8543]

I think fumes from fossil fuels are bad too!!!!

[@BirdsNNVA]

I am very sensitive to smoke of all kinds and have to wear an N95 mask or a stronger mask every time i go outside. When a fossil fuel vehicle passes me, especially if it does not have perfect emissions control, I practically collapse.

[@b0b0-]

If you're wearing synthetic clothing, plastics and chemicals are being ground into your skin right now.

[@anniesshenanigans3815]

I see a lot of Parkinsons in much younger than expected.

[@EhCloserLook]

Very sad to hear this.

[@nancyn1106]

Yes. My friend in late 40s has it, as well as my dad in mid 70s. We are in Texas

[@Rust_Rust_Rust]

North Texas?​@@nancyn1106

[@scotsmanofnewengland7713]

I have a few friends who have Parkinson’s Disease that lived by a large chemical company here in Connecticut

[@daledoire268]

Well done, good story. Gives a lot to consider. Looking forward to hearing the results of the Dr. Tim’s research.

[@TT-y1b]

My mother had Parkinson’s when she died 20 years ago… grew up in rural NJ and doctors then thought it was linked to chemicals. She recalled playing with friends in a brook/creek in the neighborhood. Definitely could have been pesticides in the water as it was a farming area. She was never a smoker and not a redhead, for what it’s worth. She also had scleroderma throughout most of her adult life, which her doctor said could have been from chemicals too… so if they don’t know, that’s the go to excuse.

[@johnwattdotca]

News reports are saying the corporations that owned the factories "are long gone". A Scot definition: Corporations are a way for individuals to avoid personal responsibility.

[@AlecMuller]

It's reassuring to know that NBC will shine a light on the misdeeds of corporations who don't buy their advertising.

[@lamikeDalton]

Notice, they didn't name any company specifically, just chemicals.

[@TTXX455]

😢 Thank you for this content.

[@adamhill4141]

My dad’s family grew up in an industrial town in Pennsylvania. 3 out of 5 of his brothers and sisters died in their 50 and 60s of cancer and other environmental diseases.

[@wholefoodsvegankitchen]

My aunt had Parkinson’s, she recently passed. She had such a hard life. Environment is very important. Eating healthy, exercising, reducing stress can minimize many diseases/disorders.

[@deborahwhit9583]

Eating healthy? They spray our food with chemicals, even during harvest. FACT

[@Tiverus88]

I don't have parkinsons but I do have essential tremors. I started noticing them when I was in my early 20s and and now being 36 it's been getting progressively worse over the years.

[@heythave]

@@Tiverus88 Living in the belt area?

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

MS or something else?

[@Tiverus88]

@@heythave I had no idea what belt it was till now. I live in the Frost Belt. New England

[@Tiverus88]

@jeffkardosjr.3825 no, it's neurological and passed down from my mother.

[@heythave]

@@Tiverus88 See 1:27 and more times than not, it’s what you eat and get exposed to together as a family, not necessarily your genes. This is how you often see couples who are both fat.

[@ava.artemis]

If this bothers you, there’s an organization called earthjustice that fights for laws and protections that address this and many other environmental issues. It’s a nonprofit public interest environmental law firm that has been a pivotal force in establishing and defending what protections we do have for over 50 years.

[@plod985]

Center for environmental health is good too

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

OSHA Federal kicked into gear in 1970. A lot of industrial and chemical accidents lean towards STATE oversite, even in California. These private organizations are good, but theyi shouldn't be the "go to" to solve the problems. Your representative should be the go-to.

[@ava.artemis]

@@DwightStJohn-t7y how do you think people access their representatives? Do you think individuals writing letters makes a difference? No, you have to form groups and often work with professionals who understand law and the mechanisms of the government machine. The reason corporations and for profit interests have basically written our laws is because they have lawyers and professional lobbyists on their side who can attend complicated rule making procedures or get face to face meetings with representatives. They can afford professional economists and scientists to present skewed reports and opinions. Individual citizens generally don’t have that capacity or access. They have to organize, form collectives, and generally obtain representation by lawyers and policy professionals if they have any hope of being heard in the first place, much less be successful. Earthjustice doesn’t come up with policy initiatives on its own. It represents clients, which are groups of people who have particular interests and need representation.

[@rosiea7317]

Thank you for sharing this!!!

[@elainegoad9777]

Yes, my sister died of Parkinson's 3 years ago. She live 40 years close to the apple orchards in Western NC, drank well water. The orchards are sprayed with pesticide often and can seep into the ground and well water. This Environmental Hazard must stop.

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

Most states have clear regs (maybe not NC but my old debate hero is actually an Environmental Professor a UNC!!) I built and registered community water wells in Washington State and there are Federal (DSHS) and state (Dept. of Ecology) REgs including isolating the land for NO other use AND drawing a sample every year for testing and "archiving" so it the ground is every contaminated there is provenance is was clean before. NC may be too much of a "freedom fry" state and that has a major impact.

[@CocoChanel-r2b]

My dad died from parkinsons in 2021 which i was suprised because I didnt know someone could have an official Parkinsons COD. We always thought it was related to agent orange seeing as how he retired from the air force. But he lived in NJ where stayed after he got out, thats where he died

[@kathyverrelli5170]

Petroleum fumes from air plane exhaust?

[@CaptainPlanet4President]

It’s not unexplained!!!! There is literal correlation!! How long will we keep this up?

[@paulbedichek5177]

90K a year isn't that much, there are great costs reducing chemicals in agriculture and industry.

[@jmg4208]

You got to realize that US as introduced almost 10000 new additives or by-product in food industry since millenium. Europe only introduced about 410. There's study & YT vid on it.

[@tvtv-m9h]

What is the title?

[@jmg4208]

@@tvtv-m9h cbs news # ultra processed:

[@jmg4208]

Ultra processed: how food tech consumed American diet

[@NewYorkDoll_911]

My grandfather in P.R. had Parkinson and was a farmer. Many of his children who worked with him now have Parkinson or Dementia. The chemicals they used back in the day are considered unsafe now. I'm glad this is being investigated.

[@cardboardmark]

This is why we need environmental laws now.

[@floptimus]

And people want to vote for less regulations... It's regulations that extended life expectancy.

[@amberandrews6842]

Interesting. Thank You for doing this story.

[@BigDogRoy]

The “smoker’s have less” study is sooo flawed. My grandfather was a smoker and he had Parkinson’s. I hate when they said unnecessary stuff that could only affect people. BTW no need to keep spending money on research just to tell us chemicals affect us. We know. Now do something about it. Stop putting chemicals in our food, in our water, in our air. Then maybe we would stop having all kinds of immune system disorders, cancers, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, eczema, etc, etc, etc.

[@roxyiconoclast]

Smoking just decreases the risk, it doesn’t offer complete protection. My grandfather was a smoker and had PD. My father didn’t smoke and had PD even worse. Sadly, reducing environmental contamination isn’t something our society has been willing to do. But those of us with familial history of PD can use nicotine patches and drink coffee (or other caffeinated drinks) - it’s something I’m considering.

[@JonD-ee3im]

Out of curiosity, were your grandfathers around chemicals in their line of work?

[@ahill4642]

Well said. One wonders if Big Tobacco funded the research study.

[@jasonborne5724]

I’m glad they are using a pure scientific approach. They didn’t ignore something that could be significant in understanding the disease, just because it doesn’t look good for smoking to possibly have some benefit. Let the science lead them down all relevant paths, regardless of societal pressure. Obviously smoking is bad for your health, but maybe there’s a chemical in cigarettes that isn’t. Isolate it and figure it out. That’ll be a whole lot faster than trying to remove every bad chemical from the planet……

[@chrisleblanc581]

You apparently don’t read science publications very much. I had to cover this area in grad school journal clubs. The lower incidence in smokers is reliably observed in multiple population studies. With that said, no causal protective link has been clearly established. It’s just a correlation. Like people eat more ice cream in summer. More people drown in summer. These strong correlative facts do not allow the conclusion eating ice cream increases your risk of drowning to be made. Misunderstanding data sets and how they are analyzed is why news articles on science publications are nearly worthless to read- they typically over extend what is reasonable from a publication. A good example is the beet juice and suture science fair study that the press made so much of. It was scientifically meaningless, but a cute science fair project.

[@shirleyashanti3031]

Mother died of end-stage PD. She grew up on a farm, handled fertilizers with bare hands.

[@Suburp212]

Of course it is related to chemicals. Everything is related to chemicals.

[@bethhanna9118]

Such a well done piece, but once again not a single mention of the debilitating NON-MOTOR symptoms of Parkinson’s.

[@heythave]

@@bethhanna9118 The video is about the causes of the disease, not about the symptoms and treatment of the disease.

[@bethhanna9118]

@@heythave Direct quote from the video "Parkinson's causes tremors and muscle stiffness, many patients end up in wheelchairs"

[@heythave]

@@bethhanna9118 They are giving some info about the disease but the focus is about the chemicals that cause it. It’s more about epidemiology, hence the belt map. You are missing the point. It is futile to explain. Live on and be happy.

[@bethhanna9118]

@@heythave I'm fully aware of the main message being about epidemiology, but as a person with Parkinson's, I would like for the world to understand the full depth and breadth of it's impact on people's lives.

[@kathyverrelli5170]

​@@bethhanna9118Exactly

[@user-xy6gm6ug5c]

Everyone who stayed long term in my neighborhood has died of cancer. My father was one of them. I've watched so many neighbors die. Our neighborhood was built on an old cotton field. I swear our land is poisoned from pesticides. I plant everything in pots & not in the ground.

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

plant sunflowers and then try to get them tested: sunflowers draw up all kinds of metals out of the ground and can remediate. but be prepared for surprises.

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

Just Parkinson's? How's about other conditions such as MS?

[@deborahwhit9583]

Fibromyalgia too

[@curiousbystander9193]

from what in the food?

[@Kat-tr2ig]

My grandfather was a farmer and mechanic in NE Ohio. He had Parkinson's and passed away in 2012. I wonder if it was the pesticides.

[@krissyhenderson4089]

Ya and here in Louisiana we have chem plants everywhere

[@alicewright4322]

downstream from deceit. downwind from lies. your life's always for sale. and the price ain't all that high

[@lf3361]

Sad but true

[@aliannarodriguez1581]

Those words need to be set to music, the resulting song would be very compelling.

[@sedatedturtle]

Making me rethink my Gore-Tex jacket purchase to breath ALL that "fresh" air in the Great Outdoors 👍🏼

[@cumulus1234]

Need to do a complete detox of harmful chemicals and live clean as possible. Organic food clean water

[@Katepwe]

Do you know how organic food is produced and what “chemicals and pesticides” are used….you might be surprised. You do know that everything is a chemical?

[@cumulus1234]

@@Katepwe mainly I meant farms from the Weston A Price foundation that don’t use any synthetic products on their crops and not harmful grains for feed. Now CO2 is demonized, but very beneficial for plant life and only causes very little climate change.

[@melanie7781]

My husbands grandmother had Parkinson's. She ate a table spoon of gin soaked raisons everyday. Her symptoms stayed mild and she was in here 90's when she passed away.

[@MissDarlaDeville]

Can I ask why gin soaked raisins

[@melanie7781]

@@MissDarlaDeville I have no idea, just an old home remedy.

[@jbizzo2125]

My grandmother got Parkinson's at 35 and they said it was caused by an overdose her dr gave her when she was having a severe asthma attack

[@Jen39x]

This is news? Parkinson’s has been known as Old Farmer’s Disease for decades here in Ohio. The reminder doesn’t hurt though

[@K8isGr88]

When are men going to learn that actions have consequences

[@susana6917]

ALUMINUM cans and pans + TEFLON-sprayed (or any spray-on chemicals) also huge factors. Nowadays, many Air Friers, etc are sprayed. Sugar intake also binds and amplifies these chemicals. Hope medical intake forms ask about these some day...

[@justayoutuber1906]

Stop touting unscientific mumbo-jumbo. Its false. The teflon issue is with the chemicals used to MAKE the teflon (PFOAs). You body converts EVERYTHING into glycogen, so I guess you have to stop eating to stop sugar.

[@64kimmyjo]

My husband has been recently diagnosed with PSP at 65. Devastating Disease

[@Bill-es8ds]

This reminds me of the time I was surveying with my father in law, when I saw some kids playing in the creek where we was surveying. There was sewer overflow ing into the creek. I ran the kids off & told them not to play in this water.there was poop in it.But no telling how long they had been playing there, or if they listened to me once we left. No telling what they probably pick up playing there. I did the same thing when I was a kid, just not in that creek,or that county.that creek is the same way to this day. Yet they keep adding homes to the area without fixing the problem.