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Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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> 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 complex 1 inhibitors.

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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"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…

Presumably there's already known risk factors studied thoroughly for race, age, and sex. So they adjusted the numbers to account for that and their focus was on locality.

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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"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…

Alot of socioeconomic factors are baked into the above co-morbidities but anyway, is there a reason to think that veterans of two different marine camps have significantly different socioeconomic profiles from eachother?

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure I'd call it clickbait, and they do mention it right away. It'd be like putting a mathematical expression in the headline of an article about neural networks.

“Tricholoroethylene strongly linked to Parkinson”

My first thought would be, "What is this? Is it a common chemical?". Then I'd probably call the article click bait even though it says it's common early in the article.

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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That chemical is trichloroethylene. Even Science does clickbait now.

I have no clue what trichloroethylene is so I think the title is fair. It could be a stone for all I know.

A very effective organic solvent. Used in dry cleaning and formerly in chip making in SV.

Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure I'd call it clickbait, and they do mention it right away. It'd be like putting a mathematical expression in the headline of an article about neural networks.

“Tricholoroethylene strongly linked to Parkinson”

What is Tricholoroethylene?

"A widely used chemical"

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Re: Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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post #3

When you drink your coffee without caffeine in your 30 for escaping a harm from caffeine, but end up with Parkinson in your 60+.

Never exchange the "devil you know", especially if it's natural and has been used for centuries by billions, for some novel lab-made crap, proprietary owned, and marketed to death.

Not to mention when getting it has been the whole point of drinking coffee in the first place.

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