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'Parkinson's is a man-made disease'

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54 points pythonic_hell | 1 comments | 14 Apr 25 15:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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JPLeRouzic ◴[14 Apr 25 16:52 UTC] No.43683297[source]▶
You don't have to trust me, I am not a doctor but I am deeply interested in ALS/Parkinson/Alzheimer's diseases and I read many scientific articles for my blog.

This article tells something true, but as usual, it is much more complicated than that. The anecdote about MPTP is true, but it is not the only way to induce Parkinson's disease, for example, animal models are often created with 6-OHDA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_models_of_Parkinson%27s...

The Politico article cites rotenone only one time, yet it is commonly used to induce Parkinson's disease.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40203643/

My guess as a layman in medicine is that if you mess enough with the body's function it retaliates with severe diseases like cancers, Parkinson or ALS (try eating false morels!).

The problem is in my view ecological, we are poisoning our environment.

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1. ProllyInfamous ◴[14 Apr 25 20:17 UTC] No.43685848[source]▶
>The problem is in my view ecological, we are poisoning our environment.

I think this is a pretty good hunch, fellow non-doctor (I dropped out decades ago).

A friend of mine turns eighty-eight this year (¡kill me!) and has been tremoring more, and hallucinating enough to become inconvenient. Fortunately, she stopped driving decades ago. She grew up in one of the most polluted manufacturing towns in 1960s/70s America... and Parkinsons is just one of her auto-immune co-morbidities!