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PARKINSONS IS A MAN MADE DISEASE · Your Daily Dose

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  Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about this quite often, that if
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  Speaker 1: you go back maybe 20, 25 years ago, Parkinson's disease
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  Speaker 1: was not even seen. And then when we heard about
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  Speaker 1: Michael J. Fox, we watched him deteriorate. And we started
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  Speaker 1: looking around, and the number of people that have been
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  Speaker 1: diagnosed with Parkinson's is astronomical. So a new article comes
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  Speaker 1: out in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease that says, is this.
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  Speaker 2: A man-made epidemic? In other words, it's not ironic that
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  Speaker 2: this happened, but did we cause it? We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, and welcome to Health Talk with Dr. Len, your
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  Speaker 3: Get ready for the good news of the day. God
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  Speaker 3: bless you folks. And here is Dr. Lent.
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  Speaker 1: Our daily devotional today comes from the book of Psalms
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  Speaker 1: chapter 46. Take time to be still in my presence.
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  Speaker 1: The more hassled you feel, the more you need this
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  Speaker 1: sacred space of communion with me.
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  Speaker 2: Breathe slowly and deeply.
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  Speaker 1: Relax in my holy presence while my face shines upon you.
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  Speaker 2: This is how you receive my peace, which I always
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  Speaker 2: prefer to you.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine the pain I feel when my children tie themselves
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  Speaker 1: up in anxious knots, ignoring my gift of peace. I
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  Speaker 1: die a criminal's death to secure the blessing for you.
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  Speaker 1: Receive it gratefully. Hide it in your heart. My peace
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  Speaker 1: is an inner treasure growing within you as you trust
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  Speaker 1: in me. Therefore, circumstances cannot touch it. Be still, enjoying
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  Speaker 1: the peace in my presence.
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  Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
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  Speaker 3: 727-916-4215.
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  Speaker 4: The number of cases of Parkinson's disease has doubled in
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  Speaker 4: the last six years. I don't know that we can
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  Speaker 4: say that.
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  Speaker 2: About Anything else other than maybe cancer?
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  Speaker 1: 12 million people now are living with Parkinson's. Unlike many
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  Speaker 1: neurological conditions, researchers say Parkinson's may largely be something we
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  Speaker 1: are doing to ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: For most of history, Parkinson's has been a very, very
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  Speaker 1: rare disease, although records of possible Parkinson's disease can be
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  Speaker 1: found in very early texts. The first clear medical documentation
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  Speaker 1: was written 200 years ago in 1817. The principal causes
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  Speaker 1: of the disease are not in our DNA.
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  Speaker 2: Can I say that again?
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  Speaker 1: The primary cause, the principal causes of this disease are
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  Speaker 1: not in our DNA, but outside in our environment, said Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Ray Dorsey, a neurologist, co-author of the Parkinson's Plan. Only
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  Speaker 1: 13% of Americans carry any known genetic cause risk factor
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  Speaker 1: for this disease. Principal causes are chemicals in our food, water, air.
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  Speaker 1: Approximately 90% of Parkinson's disease cases are linked to environmental
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  Speaker 1: factors or a combination of environmental exposure and genetic susceptibility,
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  Speaker 1: according to a 2025 study published in the British Medical Journal.
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  Speaker 1: Researchers note that only about 10-15% of cases are strictly
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  Speaker 1: caused by direct inherited genetic mutations. For the vast majority
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  Speaker 1: of individuals, the condition is considered idiopathic of unknown direct origin,
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  Speaker 1: meaning it's triggered by external elements acting on a person's
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  Speaker 1: biological vulnerabilities. Dorsey, who along with the co-author of their book, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Okun, have published more than a thousand papers and
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  Speaker 1: personally cared for thousands of patients, said the biggest surprise
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  Speaker 1: he discovered is that Parkinson's may be preventable. Chemicals in
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  Speaker 1: our food, water, and air have created this largely man-made disease,
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  Speaker 1: they said. Multiple studies have identified specific environmental chemicals that
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  Speaker 1: might play a role in triggering or accelerating Parkinson's. These
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  Speaker 1: include certain pesticides, the dry cleaning and industrial solvents, trichloroethylene
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  Speaker 1: and perchloroethylene, and airborne pollutants. These toxins are increasingly implicated
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  Speaker 1: because they are toxic to the very neurons that whose
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  Speaker 1: destruction leads to Parkinson's, says Dr. Jeremy Liff, a neurologist
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  Speaker 1: at Northwell Lenox Hill. The big one is paraquat, the
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  Speaker 1: herbicide used in many large areas, especially in cities, which
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  Speaker 1: is used to kill fish. Trichloroethylene is not only used
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  Speaker 1: in dry cleaning, it's also used in manufacturing, aerospace, and military.
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  Speaker 2: Triethylene bothers Dr.
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  Speaker 1: John Gorecki the most, precisely because it's not ordinary. Gorecki
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  Speaker 1: is a board-certified neurosurgeon and deep brain stimulation specialist at
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  Speaker 1: Northside Hospital in Atlanta, where the marine-based water supply was
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  Speaker 1: heavily contaminated with TCE.
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  Speaker 2: Into the 1980s.
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  Speaker 1: It was used for decades to degrease metal and dry
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  Speaker 1: clean clothes, and it lingers in groundwaters for generations. The
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  Speaker 1: clearest signal that environmental changes may drive Parkinson's came from Clambe-Léjeune,
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  Speaker 1: A 2023 study found that veterans who served there had
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  Speaker 1: a 70% higher risk of Parkinson's disease than veterans who
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  Speaker 1: served elsewhere. Another case occurred in Northern California involving a
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  Speaker 1: group of young people who suddenly developed severe irreversible Parkinsonisms.
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  Speaker 2: They were rigid and frozen, barely able to move.
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  Speaker 1: All of them had used a batch of synthetic heroin
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  Speaker 1: that was contaminated with MPTP, a toxic chemical compound that
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  Speaker 1: causes permanent symptoms of parkinson's disease and is similar to
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  Speaker 1: paraquat a chemical that has a strong association with parkinson's
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  Speaker 1: outside of environmental factors age is also a key driver
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  Speaker 1: of parkinson's disease though the number of cases are growing
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  Speaker 1: rapidly whether it's driven by environmental toxins or other factors
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  Speaker 1: such as an aging population and better disease identification is
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  Speaker 1: not universally agreed upon said rebecca gilbert neurologist the american
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  Speaker 1: parkinson's disease association Parkinson's rarely develops from one villain, which
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  Speaker 1: makes proving the cause and mitigating its.
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  Speaker 2: Risk all the more difficulties.
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  Speaker 1: Gorky points to a highly cited meta-analysis which found that
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  Speaker 1: paraquat exposure increases Parkinson's disease by 1.6-fold, while the Agricultural
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  Speaker 1: Health Study found no clear association at all, of course.
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  Speaker 1: While strong repeated associations and plausible biological mechanisms in these
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  Speaker 1: models exist, Gorky said that the field still lacks a
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  Speaker 1: clear causal proof that was eventually built for tobacco and
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  Speaker 1: lung cancer. From 1990 to 2015, the number of people
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  Speaker 1: with Parkinson's doubled to more than 6 million. A number
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  Speaker 1: projected to double again to more than 12 million by 2040.
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  Speaker 1: Dorsey and Oak had put together a framework called PLAN Plan,
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  Speaker 1: preventing the disease, learning why it starts, amplifying.
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  Speaker 2: The voices of those affected, and navigating new treatments.
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  Speaker 1: Dorsey pointed to Countries who have already eliminated paraquat and
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  Speaker 1: trichloroethylene and.
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  Speaker 2: Reduced air pollution.
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  Speaker 1: England, Germany, and Netherlands, where age-adjusted rates of new Parkinson's
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  Speaker 1: cases are now stable or falling. Some are skeptical of
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  Speaker 1: this zero increase. I admire ambition and I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: be wrong. I don't think zero is realistic, but I'd
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  Speaker 1: be careful about handling the public that we can't hit.
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  Speaker 2: Latency is also a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Much of what clinicians are diagnosing today traces back to exposures.
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  Speaker 2: From 20, 30, or even 40 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Cleaning up the present matters, but it doesn't erase what's
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  Speaker 1: already written into people's neurology.
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  Speaker 2: The chemicals believed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Responsible are so widespread, he said, the society has not
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  Speaker 1: yet grasped the scale of the problem, let alone build
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  Speaker 1: the political will to address it. Alongside the environment, Parkinson's
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  Speaker 1: is fundamentally a disease related to aging, And the world
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  Speaker 1: is experiencing aging at an unprecedented rate in human history.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've been involved in.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say the last two years, a number of studies.
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  Speaker 2: About turning the body around, about.
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  Speaker 1: Making these entities, if they're in the body, leave. There
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  Speaker 1: are ways to do it. There are ways to purge
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  Speaker 1: the body. I'm going to be doing a study report
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  Speaker 1: on brain functionality and glymphatic drainage in Atlanta coming up
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  Speaker 1: in another week or so. It's a critical factor. If
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  Speaker 1: you're concerned at all, it would be a good idea
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  Speaker 1: to do a good bonding detox over the course of
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  Speaker 1: a 30 to 60 day period.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to do that, give me a call.
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