When you drink your coffee without caffeine in your 30 for escaping a harm from caffeine, but end up with Parkinson in your 60+.
Why would you drink coffee if not for the caffeine. It's not exactly the most delicious drink.
Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you drink coffee if not for the caffeine. It's not exactly the most delicious drink.
Have you not had coffee with fresh ground beans less than 4 weeks after roast? If not get to your nearest real coffee shop pronto!
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#53"After adjusting for differences in age, sex, race, and ethnicity, the scientists found veterans from Camp Lejeune had a 70% higher rate of Parkinson’s disease than the Camp Pendleton group." Why didn't they adjust for socioeconomic status? Wealthier people tend to be able to afford better medical care, live in healthier environments, eat healthier foods, etc. These could all be confounding factors, and a study like…
(This isn’t to say they originally came from the same socio-economic group, but that isn’t the type of distinction usually made in these kinds of studies.)
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#54> It inhibits complex 1, the leading enzyme in a chain of reactions that convert food to energy in cellular organelles called mitochondria. So they upside is that it probably significantly reduces your risk of both cancer and type 2 diabetes, which you're >100x more likely to die from than Parkinson's. There are even longevity bloggers, like Peter Attia, who advocate that everyone should be taking mitochondrial compl…
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#56Started gabapentin, couple weeks later I had Parkinson’s Took awhile to clear up. Had a few rounds of this before I figured out that gabapentin induced Parkinson’s was a thing. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31633228/
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#57> It inhibits complex 1, the leading enzyme in a chain of reactions that convert food to energy in cellular organelles called mitochondria. So they upside is that it probably significantly reduces your risk of both cancer and type 2 diabetes, which you're >100x more likely to die from than Parkinson's. There are even longevity bloggers, like Peter Attia, who advocate that everyone should be taking mitochondrial compl…
Is there any evidence it actually reduces those risks, or is it speculation?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is Tricholoroethylene? "A widely used chemical" ....
Imagine this headline A widely known basketball team wins NBA finals Clickbait?
Does the average reader of science.org know what trichloroethylene is without a prompt?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is Tricholoroethylene? "A widely used chemical" ....
Imagine this headline A widely known basketball team wins NBA finals Clickbait?
More people know the names of basketball teams than know the significance of TCE.
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#60It was heavily contaminated water that they all consumed, of the 279 veterans there were 0.33% cases vs the statistically expected 0.21%. Which means they found 9 people with Parkinson, instead of the expected 6. [edit] ignore the comment, read it wrong, its 279 cases