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  • 1 year

    From the article:

    a condition shaped less by genetics and more by prolonged exposure to toxicants like air pollution, industrial solvents and, above all, pesticides.

    Identification of Parkinson’s disease coincides with the industrial revolution, so the claim is still plausible.

      • Even at that time humans were exposed to pollution. Thinking of charcoal burner, miners, blacksmiths, dyer, and some others.

        It was found that even the Romans were exposed to lead in the air that coming from mining.

        • 1 year

          Just imagine how they cooked with wooden fires in their huts a few thousand years ago.

          Couldn’t be healthy either.

          And as you said, as soon as we started with metal stuff, this took on a whole new dimension of pollution