Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker

Post by jjfoooo4 » Mon, May 01, 2023, 5:49 PM UTC

Workaccount2 wrote: post #117

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What would you do if you found out you would? (I ask as someone whose great-grandfather, great-uncle, and grandfather all had Parkinson’s.) I’ve avoided any testing because, as far as I know, there’s nothing preventative to be done. I’d love to hear otherwise. I’ve broached the subject with my last two primary care physicians and both advised that there was no point in knowing.

Pick up a nicotine addiction. Seriously, it has long been understood that people who smoke have dramatically lower levels of parkinsons. It comes from the neuroprotective properties of nicotine. You don't have to become a smoker, you could theoretically use any of the other forms (vape, gum, patch)

Post by beambot » Mon, May 01, 2023, 6:15 PM UTC

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It's not allowed. These are old plumes and they stay around for a long time and are very expensive to clean up.

Cool, let’s make the companies that caused it pay for it

Post by alexpotato » Mon, May 01, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

athoun wrote: post #138

For those living in the bay area, you should know that the groundwater in many areas is contaminated with TCE due to computer manufacturing industry which used it as a solvent. Dry cleaners are another common culprit of contamination to the groundwater. These groundwater plumes can extend for quite a large distance from the original site of contamination and seep into the first story of residences and buildings throu…

Post by sokoloff » Mon, May 01, 2023, 6:47 PM UTC

techdragon wrote: post #76

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That's the precise essence of why quackery is dangerous. People are searching for "every possible way that can help" and quackery can easily exploit that natural tendency. (I am not qualified to render any opinion on whether this specific protocol is quackery.)

The problem is the lack of incentives to take the “huh that’s interesting, but I don’t know if I can trust it because it’s published in a quack journal” … and ever reproduce the research and get it into more trusted more prestigious journals. There’s a reproducibility crisis in many fields of research, and medical research has multiple confounding factors, the “no prestige in just redoing the research”, lack of money…

Post by alixanderwang » Mon, May 01, 2023, 7:09 PM UTC

athoun wrote: post #138

For those living in the bay area, you should know that the groundwater in many areas is contaminated with TCE due to computer manufacturing industry which used it as a solvent. Dry cleaners are another common culprit of contamination to the groundwater. These groundwater plumes can extend for quite a large distance from the original site of contamination and seep into the first story of residences and buildings throu…