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Pesticides

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HHealth
Environmental insults reduce gut resilience and initiate convergent mechanisms that drive Parkinson’s disease. A lifetime of environmental insults (including Western diets and food additives, nano- and microplastics, pesticides and herbicides, industrial solvents, and air pollution) act on the intestinal microbiome and barrier. These exposures promote microbiota dysbiosis, disrupt tight junctions, and erode the mucus layer, collectively reducing gut resilience. Once this peripheral defense is compromised, several mechanistic pathways propagate pathology to the brain: (a) amyloid seeding by bacterial functional amyloids, (b) maladaptive T cell education and autoimmune responses, (c) microbiome-driven metabolic shifts that generate neurotoxic metabolites and reduce short-chain fatty acids, and (d) systemic inflammatory amplification. Together, these processes lower the threshold for α-syn misfolding, neuroinflammation, and neurodegeneration.
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Researchers propose that Parkinson’s disease may start in the gut, not the brain

  • March 6, 2026
Scientists propose that Parkinson’s disease may begin far from the brain, where environmental toxins, microbiome disruption, and intestinal…
EEnvironment
UK national security threatened by biodiversity loss, intelligence chiefs warn
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UK national security threatened by biodiversity loss, intelligence chiefs warn

  • January 24, 2026
The UK has been warned that the collapse of global ecosystems is a direct threat to national security…
EEnvironment
The Belgian farmer suing TotalEnergies over damage caused by climate change – POLITICO
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The Belgian farmer suing TotalEnergies over damage caused by climate change – POLITICO

  • November 24, 2025
The case is part of a broader movement of strategic litigation that aims to test the courts and…
HHealth
Oxalates, Lectins, And “Toxic” Vegetables
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Oxalates, Lectins, And “Toxic” Vegetables

  • October 8, 2025
Certain natural plant compounds can interfere with nutrient absorption or cause symptoms in sensitive people, but preparation, balance,…
EEnvironment
China offers unlikely glimmer of hope in fight against plastic pollution – POLITICO
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China offers unlikely glimmer of hope in fight against plastic pollution – POLITICO

  • September 27, 2025
The Chinese wild card Countries in the self-named High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution — which backs…
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