Dr. Ray Dorsey

And I think they're also likely preventing generations of individuals from developing Parkinson's disease in the future. However, the Problem is not just the use of trichloroethylene, which in the 1970s, it's estimated that 10 million Americans worked with this in semiconductor industry, in mechanics, in printers and painters and taxidermists and varnish workers all worked with it.

But there are numerous thousands of contaminated sites, including contaminated sites in Newport Beach, California, where I went to high school and not too far from where you're sitting right now in Southern California. and in sites in Woburn, Massachusetts, north of Massachusetts, north of Boston.

But there are numerous thousands of contaminated sites, including contaminated sites in Newport Beach, California, where I went to high school and not too far from where you're sitting right now in Southern California. and in sites in Woburn, Massachusetts, north of Massachusetts, north of Boston.

But there are numerous thousands of contaminated sites, including contaminated sites in Newport Beach, California, where I went to high school and not too far from where you're sitting right now in Southern California. and in sites in Woburn, Massachusetts, north of Massachusetts, north of Boston.

There are dozens of dry, at least a dozen dry cleaning sites in Rochester, New York, that are contaminated with this chemical and a closely related chemical. So these sites are all around us. But the good news is EPA has banned future uses of it. This proposed ban would go in effect in a year, is my understanding.

There are dozens of dry, at least a dozen dry cleaning sites in Rochester, New York, that are contaminated with this chemical and a closely related chemical. So these sites are all around us. But the good news is EPA has banned future uses of it. This proposed ban would go in effect in a year, is my understanding.

There are dozens of dry, at least a dozen dry cleaning sites in Rochester, New York, that are contaminated with this chemical and a closely related chemical. So these sites are all around us. But the good news is EPA has banned future uses of it. This proposed ban would go in effect in a year, is my understanding.

But we still have more work to do to contain, remediate, and clean up these contaminated sites throughout the country.

But we still have more work to do to contain, remediate, and clean up these contaminated sites throughout the country.

But we still have more work to do to contain, remediate, and clean up these contaminated sites throughout the country.

Yeah, so if you think about the brain, it's basically an energy-guzzling organ. The brain's only about 3% of our body's weight, but it consumes 20% of our blood's glucose or energy supplies. And within the brain, there are many different kinds of cells. And the cell that consumes the most energy are the nerve cells, also called neurons. And many of these neurons are chock full of mitochondria.

Yeah, so if you think about the brain, it's basically an energy-guzzling organ. The brain's only about 3% of our body's weight, but it consumes 20% of our blood's glucose or energy supplies. And within the brain, there are many different kinds of cells. And the cell that consumes the most energy are the nerve cells, also called neurons. And many of these neurons are chock full of mitochondria.

Yeah, so if you think about the brain, it's basically an energy-guzzling organ. The brain's only about 3% of our body's weight, but it consumes 20% of our blood's glucose or energy supplies. And within the brain, there are many different kinds of cells. And the cell that consumes the most energy are the nerve cells, also called neurons. And many of these neurons are chock full of mitochondria.

And certain cells in the brain that are responsible for Parkinson's disease and produce a chemical called dopamine are basically just big garbage bags that are filled with jelly beans. And those jelly beans are mitochondria. And if you think about it, these pesticides, especially paraquat, trichloroethylene, and air pollution are all known to damage mitochondria.

And certain cells in the brain that are responsible for Parkinson's disease and produce a chemical called dopamine are basically just big garbage bags that are filled with jelly beans. And those jelly beans are mitochondria. And if you think about it, these pesticides, especially paraquat, trichloroethylene, and air pollution are all known to damage mitochondria.

And certain cells in the brain that are responsible for Parkinson's disease and produce a chemical called dopamine are basically just big garbage bags that are filled with jelly beans. And those jelly beans are mitochondria. And if you think about it, these pesticides, especially paraquat, trichloroethylene, and air pollution are all known to damage mitochondria.

And they actually kind of bypass our normal protective mechanisms that we have. We have the gut, we have the blood brain barrier, but all of these guys are inhaled. And so this could be a way of exploiting the front door to our brain that these environmental toxins, all of which we know damage the energy producing parts of cells.

And they actually kind of bypass our normal protective mechanisms that we have. We have the gut, we have the blood brain barrier, but all of these guys are inhaled. And so this could be a way of exploiting the front door to our brain that these environmental toxins, all of which we know damage the energy producing parts of cells.

And they actually kind of bypass our normal protective mechanisms that we have. We have the gut, we have the blood brain barrier, but all of these guys are inhaled. And so this could be a way of exploiting the front door to our brain that these environmental toxins, all of which we know damage the energy producing parts of cells.

And we know that the cells that are lost in Parkinson's disease have huge energy demands. and that these things are inhaled. So I think you can weave together a story by which these toxicants are causing many people to have, likely many people to have Parkinson's disease.