Dr. Ray Dorsey
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first heard Dec 2024
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And I'm not even I don't think I'm even close to finding anything. the true extent of the effect of these environmental toxicants on Parkinson's disease and other brain diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, ALS, intellectual disabilities, brain cancer, and many others.
Yeah, so let's do indoor air first, because that's really people probably less familiar with. But many people know that radon can evaporate from the soil and enter people's basements, for example, and it increases the risk of lung cancer.
It turns out other chemicals, including trichloroethylene and a very closely related chemical called perchloroethylene, which just has one more chlorine atom on it and has the prefix per, which means for. These chemicals can contaminate groundwater, which is about 15 feet or 15 to 50 feet below our surface and form underground rivers.
And these underground rivers that are contaminated with these chemicals, these chemicals are readily volatile. They evaporate and they can evaporate into people's homes, schools and workplaces undetected. And then people can be breathing in these chemicals and never know about it.
and be increasing their risk for developing cancer and likely increasing their risk for developing Parkinson's disease. In Newport Beach, California, less than a half mile from where I went to high school in Cronenmar High School, there's a former aerospace facility that's been contaminated with trichloroethylene and a closely related chemical called perchloroethylene.
It's been rezoned and made into residential homes. So there are multimillion dollar homes in Newport Beach, California, about three miles from the Pacific Ocean or from Pacific Coast Highway, that are sitting on top of a plume of trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene.
That trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene has been documented to be evaporating into the homes above this plume, and they have found trichloroethylene or perchloroethylene in people's master bedrooms, in their living rooms, and in their kids' playrooms.
There are thousands. There are not 150 of these contaminated sites. There are thousands. Half of the Superfund sites in the United States are contaminated with this chemical. I told you there are at least 12 dry cleaning sites just in Rochester, New York. alone. There are thousands of these sites. I visited them in New York. I visited them in Indiana. I visited them in West Virginia.
I visited them in Kentucky. I visited them in Arizona. I visited them in California. I visited them in North Carolina. I don't think there's a state in the country that doesn't have these contaminated sites. It's estimated that up to 30% of groundwater in the United States is contaminated with these chemicals.
And there is a reason why people are getting cancer, and there's a reason why people are getting Parkinson's disease. And I think one of the major reasons for both of those is trichloroethylene. There was a study done in Italy, so this is not just the United States, that found trichloroethylene in the blood and urine of three quarters of the men in Italy. These chemicals are everywhere.
Dry cleaning is still using, lots of dry cleaners are still using perchloroethylene. That releases gas. When you take your dry cleaning into your car, you are now breathing in perchloroethylene. These chemicals dissolve in your fat. Your brain is a fatty substance. You bring your daughter into a dry cleaner with a chocolate ice cream cone,
When you leave that dry cleaner, if they're dry cleaning on site, your daughter's now eating perchloroethylene.
So I don't know. I focus on Parkinson's disease. So I look at the world from a narrow view. And I think there are other indoor air contaminants that could be. Some of those indoor cams can be coming from outside, you know, just from the ambient air when we're outside. And that has filled with particulate matter. And that particulate matter can be carrying toxic metals with it.
We also know that people in agricultural areas or even people who work on sports fields or play on sports fields or golf courses that are sprayed with pesticides, you know, they're walking in them when they bring their shoes into the house. They can be bringing these chemicals into their homes and then pollute their indoor air that way.
You know, I recommend increasingly recommend such people who live in areas of high pollution, such as Southern California, think about air filters or air purifiers so they can decrease their exposure to these chemicals.
Yeah. If you want to live a short and unhealthy life, breathe polluted air. Um, and so there are lots of ways that people get air pollution, you know, Southern California, you know, people remember that fifties and sixties, uh, you
The air pollution was so bad in Los Angeles, people wore masks, not because of COVID 1950, but because of air pollution and because of the burning effects of air pollution. The governor of California in the 1960s said we should eliminate all unnecessary driving in Southern California.
The governor of California in the 1960s said we should eliminate all unnecessary driving in Southern California because of the toxic effects of air pollution. That governor was Ronald Reagan. So there are tons of reasons to do so. Air pollution as a whole costs every human being in the world on average three years of life expectancy.
If we didn't have air pollution, industrial air pollution in the world, all of us in general would be living three years of life longer. And so air pollution is strongly linked to heart disease, strongly linked to stroke, strongly linked to a wide range of lung diseases, and increasingly has been linked to brain diseases, especially Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.
And so what is air pollution? So when you're looking out in the smog, you can see smog, right? You know, in Southern California, it's visible. And what you're seeing is particulate matter, which is just little pieces of dirt and soot, many of them about 1 30th the width of your hair.
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