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Let's see: Psychotropics and bacteriocidal antibiotics are both linked with diseases like alzheimers because they are cytotoxic and can lead to oxidative stress

Let's see: Psychotropics and bacteriocidal antibiotics are both linked with diseases like alzheimers because they are cytotoxic and can lead to oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage. They are also being more and more commonly prescribed. Air's less and less clean. God knows how many chemicals are being added to foods, water, construction, and the environment that are unregulated or poorly studied. I remember seeing something recently like thousands of chemicals are being used without FDA approval. There's also the grandfather theory or whatever. The few generations before us are some of the first in the industrial revolution, and all of the new exposures in that are causing DNA changes that are propagating to offspring, and newer generations are feeling the negative after effects of it. Yup, we're fucked.

Brakenshire 11y ago
If there's an environmental chemical cause, the 2006 REACH legislation in the EU should provide an interesting comparative study with the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration,_Evaluation,_Authorisation_and_Restriction_of_Chemicals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration,_Evaluation,_Auth... I don't think I'd agree that air is less and less clean, incidentally. There have been big improvements in clean technology for cars and other vehicles, big reductions in the use of coal in developed countries, and so on. And I doubt other environmental pollutants are significantly higher than they were in the age before serious environmental legislation (for instance, before the EPA was created)
- Madmallard 11y ago
  I think you put too much trust in the government's ability to regulate pollutants and chemical exposures. Governments are like using using an imperative programming paradigm to address a massively parallel system with innumerable amounts of state. Googling "unregulated contaminants" brings up quite a lot of articles. You might be right about the air cleanliness thing. I recall my father saying how the air was disgusting where I live now, 40 years ago.

Brakenshire 11y ago

If there's an environmental chemical cause, the 2006 REACH legislation in the EU should provide an interesting comparative study with the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration,_Evaluation,_Authorisation_and_Restriction_of_Chemicals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration,_Evaluation,_Auth... I don't think I'd agree that air is less and less clean, incidentally. There have been big improvements in clean technology for cars and other vehicles, big reductions in the use of coal in developed countries, and so on. And I doubt other environmental pollutants are significantly higher than they were in the age before serious environmental legislation (for instance, before the EPA was created)

Madmallard 11y ago
I think you put too much trust in the government's ability to regulate pollutants and chemical exposures. Governments are like using using an imperative programming paradigm to address a massively parallel system with innumerable amounts of state. Googling "unregulated contaminants" brings up quite a lot of articles. You might be right about the air cleanliness thing. I recall my father saying how the air was disgusting where I live now, 40 years ago.