'Parkinson's Largely Is a Preventable Disease'
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| We stopped all dry cleaning a few years back (before having the kids) and I avoid decaf coffee. Another good idea would be to ask the landscapers in your neighborhood, schools, etc what they are spraying. I was pleased to hear that the owner of my HOA’s landscaping contractor is fairly conscious of this stuff. He does not want to hurt his workers either! But you know not every company is on top of these things. |
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Interestingly, Edmonton, where michEl j fox grew up, is known as the petrochemical capital of Canada.
I suspect there’s probably a lot of different causes especially when you consider things that cases that are similar to Parkinson’s like what Izzy had. And then there’s also the post encephaltix Parkinson’s you get with viruses like influenza. Covid maybe contributed to that as well. |
Anonymous
+1 I used to walk by lawns that were treated and they smelled exactly like the dry cleaning chemicals. |
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Michael J. Fox's exposure likely came on the set of a TV show. "Parkinson's was noted as a possible cluster on the Canadian TV show Leo and Me, where Fox had his first role as a teenager in 1977. Four people, including Fox and director Don Williams, developed Parkinson's after working on the show, though this was only noticed and investigated years later." |
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| My DH was at Camp Lejeune and he never trusted that it had all been cleaned up. No Parkinson’s though |
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Parkinsons can also be triggered by viruses. My grandmother died of "viral Parkinsons" probably triggered by multiple bouts of the "Spanish flu."
So there are other triggers. How past pandemics may have triggered Parkinsons. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220127-could-covid-19-still-be-affecting-us-in-decades-to-come Michael J Fox Foundation has a study going on now. https://www.michaeljfox.org/grant/h5n1-influenza-virus-etiological-agent-parkinsons-disease My grandmother died before I was born, and most other adult relatives who were working for the federal government at that time also developed Parkinson's - they were required to go to work for the war effort during WW1. It's one reason I am still carefully masking indoors in public. |
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My husbands grandfather also died of viral induced Parkinson’s from the Spanish flu. The symptoms did not emerge or were not noticeable until some years after the flu by which point he’d had a bunch of kids including my FIL, but he was totally disabled by the time my FIL was a toddler and dead by the time hmy FIl was 6. I think he was in his 30s when he died. |
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Fox himself has suggested that his early hard partying lifestyle contributed to his Parkinsons. |
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This seems plausible. My father, uncle, paternal grandmother and great grandmother had Parkinson’s. All grew up in a rural farming community in the Midwest which heavily used insecticides-the kind sprayed by planes. |
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| Parkinsonism runs in my family. None of its victims in the past three generations used drugs or had industrial jobs. Same lifestyles as their siblings who didn’t get it. |
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I have Parkinson’s Disease and am the first in my family to have it. |
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| How do you explain millions of people who work with these same chemicals and yet never develop Parkinson's? |
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Look for “swiss water decaffeinated” on the label. That prices uses only CO2 bubbles to get the caffeine molecule out of the bean before roasting. |
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My father died of Parkinsons and other complications brought on by immobility. He grew up near factories in Tacoma, WA. I visited every other summer as a child and remember the smell. I always wondered if that had something to do with it. I think he could've managed it better if he had some kind of physical activity, but he was pretty sedentary.
I have a student w Parkinsons in my fitness class, older than my dad, and he really pushes himself to stay active. I only wish my Dad had had that kind of internal motivation to move. He might still be here. |
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You don’t appear to be a demanding person…really? |