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DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)
Scientists have found a strong potential link between pesticides and Parkinson’s disease. A preliminary study suggests that the pesticide DDT, which degrades so slowly that it continues to linger in the environment more than 40 years after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned its use in the U.S., may also contribute to Alzheimer’s.
Nitrosamines
Another possible culprit for Alzheimer’s comes from the American diet. Researcher Suzanne de la Monte of Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School believes there is a connection between the rising number of Alzheimer’s cases and the greater amounts of nitrogen-based chemicals added to our food over the past few decades. In acidic environments, such as the stomach, or at high temperatures, as those reached in cooking, these compounds transform into toxic nitrosamines.
Air pollution
Soong Ho Kim reported in the journal F1000Research that mice rapidly developed Alzheimer’s amyloid plaques after exposure to aerosolized nickel nanoparticles, a component of air pollution.
Scientific America, February 10, 2014, Retrieved from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/studies-link-ddt-other-environmental-toxins-to-late-onset-alzheimers-disease/
Scientists have found a strong potential link between pesticides and Parkinson’s disease. A preliminary study suggests that the pesticide DDT, which degrades so slowly that it continues to linger in the environment more than 40 years after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned its use in the U.S., may also contribute to Alzheimer’s.
Nitrosamines
Another possible culprit for Alzheimer’s comes from the American diet. Researcher Suzanne de la Monte of Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School believes there is a connection between the rising number of Alzheimer’s cases and the greater amounts of nitrogen-based chemicals added to our food over the past few decades. In acidic environments, such as the stomach, or at high temperatures, as those reached in cooking, these compounds transform into toxic nitrosamines.
Air pollution
Soong Ho Kim reported in the journal F1000Research that mice rapidly developed Alzheimer’s amyloid plaques after exposure to aerosolized nickel nanoparticles, a component of air pollution.
Scientific America, February 10, 2014, Retrieved from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/studies-link-ddt-other-environmental-toxins-to-late-onset-alzheimers-disease/