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Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease
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#22What is the difference between linked and strongly linked?
Higher correlation
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#24Widely used chemical *(that was generally phased out in the 70s) linked to Parkinson's. Still important, but you don't need to start searching product labels in 2023 for it.
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#25What would happen that was bad if we banned this until we had more safety evidence?
That would be selfish, think of the profits /s
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#26When you drink your coffee without caffeine in your 30 for escaping a harm from caffeine, but end up with Parkinson in your 60+.
Fortunately it's a big increase in relative risk and not absolute risk: By 2021, 279 of the Camp Lejeune veterans, or 0.33%, had developed Parkinson’s versus 151 of those at Camp Pendleton, or 0.21%. 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. I guess it can be encouraging…
1 in 1000 increase in lifetime risk of something horrible, from one source, is pretty bad, if there are many similarly dangerous sources.
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#27What would happen that was bad if we banned this until we had more safety evidence?
We’d still be using carbon tetrachloride which is even more toxic?
TCE was a safer alternative.
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#28"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…
What happens when you end up accidentally controlling for exposure to the chemical?
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#29> 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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#30TCE has been banned for human consumption for decades, as it is a known poison. Percentage change increase in a certain disease isn't interesting except as a rule-lawyering way to force polluters to pay for blatantly obvious pollution.
This study is like saying subdermal exposure to lead bullets increasea chance of premature death.