Marie 🇸🇪Apr 20
Parkinson's has become one of the fastest-growing neurological disorders in the world.
Age & genetic predisposition play a role. But Dutch neurologist B Bloem's research concludes it's a condition shaped less by genetics & more by prolonged exposure to toxicants like air pollution, industrial solvents & pesticides. "Parkinson's was a very rare disease until the early 20th century. With the agricultural revolution, chemical revolution & the explosion of pesticide use, rates started to climb."
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-> Bloem sees a growing failure to confront their long term impact on the human brain. Evidence from the field is becoming harder to ignore. “It’s not that we don’t know enough. It’s that the system is not built to listen when the answers are inconvenient.”
Sometimes i believe that people prefer to live in ”don’t look up” mode & talk about climate change & genders, instead of managing real threats to humanity like these ones.

@politico

#Parkinsons #disorder #polution #pesticides #climate

Apr 20 at 2:24amWeb