#parkinsons — Public Fediverse posts
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"On August 10, the California Department of #Pesticide Regulation announced that all manufacturers of pesticide products containing paraquat-dichloride had voluntarily canceled their product registrations in California, beginning a phase-out of #paraquat use in the state.
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“These developments are more than policy milestones. They represent a combination of people living with Parkinson’s, care partners, researchers, clinicians, and #advocates who have called for stronger action on #environmental risk factors associated with the disease.”https://www.apdaparkinson.org/california-moves-to-phase-out-paraquat/
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ICYMI (published May 8, 2025)
,"This population-based case-control study provides evidence in support of an association between living within proximity to #golf courses and the risk of developing PD [Parkinson Disease]. Shorter distances from golf courses were associated with an increased risk of PD compared with those living farther away. Associations with the largest increase in odds was found in individuals living within #water service areas with a golf course and in vulnerable #GroundWater regions.” — "Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease,” Brittany Krzyzanowski, PhD1]; Aidan F. Mullan, MA; E. Ray Dorsey, MD, et al. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2833716https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2833716 #WaterQuality #water #groundwater #rotenone #pesticides #paraquat #RayDorsey #ParkinsonsResearch #Parkinsons #JAMA #MedicalResearch
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Science > Syngenta.
This is a very good step, which I hope other states pay attention and follow.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/26/vermont-paraquat-weedkiller-ban
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Paraquat, which is linked to inception of Parkinson's disease, and is banned in more than 70 countries, is not regulated as an air pollutant--so a production plant in Wanesboro, Mississippi releases tens of thousands of pounds into the air each year, without constraint or consequence.
https://thelensnola.org/2026/04/29/paraquat-parkinsons-mississippi-wayne-county/
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Over 70 countries have banned this #pesticide, but plants in the South still release it into the air
https://lailluminator.com/2026/05/01/paraquat-parkinson/#Paraquat has been linked to #Parkinson’s disease and just a sip is fatal, but tens of thousands of pounds of it are being released in the #Mississippi Basin.
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Pesticide Company To Stop Producing Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
Syngenta is facing several thousand lawsuits from people who say they developed Parkinson’s after exposure to paraquat. -
Scientists Thought #Parkinsons Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the #Water
New ideas about #ChronicIllness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.
By David Ferry, December 10, 2025
Excerpt: "Sometime before 1953, a massive plume of #trichlorethylene, or #TCE, had entered the groundwater beneath #CampLejeune. TCE is a highly effective solvent—one of those midcentury wonder chemicals—that vaporizes quickly and dissolves whatever grease it touches. The spill’s source is debated, but grunts on base used TCE to maintain machinery, and the dry cleaner sprayed it on dress blues. It was ubiquitous at Lejeune and all over America.
"And TCE appeared benign, too—you could rub it on your hands or huff its fumes and feel no immediate effects. It plays a longer game. For approximately 35 years, Marines and sailors who lived at Lejeune unknowingly breathed in vaporized TCE whenever they turned on their tap. The Navy, which oversees the Marine Corps, first denied the toxic plume’s existence, then refused to admit it could affect Marines’ health. But as Lejeune’s vets aged, cancers and unexplained illness began stalking them at staggering rates. Marines stationed on base had a 35 percent higher risk of developing kidney cancer, a 47 percent higher risk of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a 68 percent higher risk of multiple myeloma. At the local cemetery, the section reserved for infants had to be expanded.
"Meanwhile, Langston had spent the remainder of the 1980s setting up the California Parkinson’s Foundation (later renamed the Parkinson’s Institute), a lab and treatment facility equipped with everything needed to finally reveal the cause of the disease. 'We thought we were going to solve it,' Langston told me. Researchers affiliated with the institute created the first animal model for Parkinson’s, identified a pesticide called #Paraquat as a near chemical match to #MPTP, and proved that farm workers who sprayed Paraquat developed Parkinson’s at exceedingly high rates.
"Then they showed that identical twins developed Parkinson’s at the same rate as fraternal twins—something that wouldn’t make sense if the disease were purely genetic, since identical twins share DNA and fraternal twins do not. They even noted TCE as a potential cause of the disease, Langston says. Each revelation, the team thought, represented another nail in the coffin of the genetic theory of Parkinson’s."
Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-was-in-our-genes-it-might-be-in-the-water/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/w8kFq#TCE #Solvents #DryCleaningFluid #Toxins #ToxicContamination #ParkinsonsDisease #WaterIsLife #WaterContamination
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"Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson’s. They blame a deadly pesticide.
Paul Friday remembers when his hand started flopping in the cold weather – the first sign nerve cells in his brain were dying.
He was eventually diagnosed with Parkinson’s, a brain disease that gets worse over time. His limbs got stiffer. He struggled to walk. He couldn’t keep living on his family farm. Shortly afterward, Friday came to believe that decades of spraying a pesticide called paraquat at his peach orchard in southwestern Michigan may be the culprit.
'It explained to me why I have Parkinson’s disease,' said Friday, who is now 83, and makes that claim in a pending lawsuit.
The pesticide, a weed killer, is extremely toxic.
With evidence of its harms stacking up, it’s already been banned in dozens of countries all over the world, including the United Kingdom and China, where it’s made. Yet last year, its manufacturer Syngenta, a subsidiary of a company owned by the Chinese government, continued selling paraquat in the United States and other nations that haven’t banned it."
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As far back as 1975 corporate insiders were aware of potential risks. They called #paraquat’s long-term effects "a quite terrible problem” (Nov 11, 1975 ltr to #Chevron Environmental Health, Standard Oil of California).
Over 70 countries banned paraquat; it remains legal in US. #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency banned use on #golf courses but allows on crops.
Most US paraquat comes from China & UK—both banned paraquat’s use in their countries.
—From #TheNewLede, Environmental Working Group vid
https://thenewlede.substack.com/p/watch-parkinsons-and-pesticides-insideHard to know full scope of paraquat use across US; California is only state where info on location & amt of use is readily available.— https://www.ewg.org/research/wonderful-company-among-californias-top-users-toxic-weedkiller-paraquat
In 2023 it was 46th most used pesticide in CA, 369,978 pounds applied.— https://www.cdpr.ca.gov/2024/12/30/department-of-pesticide-regulation-releases-preliminary-findings-from-review-of-environmental-and-human-health-studies-related-to-the-use-of-the-pesticide-paraquat/#CentralCoast workers&residents exposed to >300K kilograms 1992-2017. #MontereyCounty ranked as county in region with highest amt use— https://www.walkuplawoffice.com/central-coast-paraquat-lawsuit/
#Syngenta #Sinochem #Gramoxone #Ortho #OrthoPlus #agriculture #pesticides #Parkinsons -
review article from 2022:
Gut power: Modulation of human amyloid formation by amyloidogenic proteins in the gastrointestinal tract
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2021.07.009"The most common allergen in fish, the highly abundant protein β-parvalbumin (PV), forms amyloids that escape gastrointestinal degradation and transit to the blood [34,35]. PV is a small, calcium-binding protein with a helical structure that transforms to amyloids on calcium removal. Because fish is generally considered beneficial toward age-related diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease, we speculated that an explanation would be cross-reactivity of PV amyloids with human amyloidogenic proteins [36∗∗]. Indeed, in vitro experiments showed that PV amyloids readily blocked aS amyloid formation. "
"In addition to fish, other food products contain protein amyloids that are not fully digested in the gut: for example, whey and casein proteins (milk), ovalbumin, lysozyme and ovotransferrin (egg), bovine serum albumin and hemoglobin (blood), and glutelin (wheat) [20]."
The 'Conclusions and outlook' section is very much worth reading, but a bit too long to cut and paste.
#Parkinsons #neurodegeneration #Food #FoodScience #health #GutBrainAxis #GutMicrobiome