Bob
3rd April 2016, 00:14
Farmers are using powerful anti-fungal chemicals on food crops.
A long term study has been completed using mice.
A member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, and his group found that these chemicals reduced the expression of genes involved in synaptic transmission - the connections important for communication between neurons.
If these genes are not expressed properly, then brains cannot function normally.
Also, these chemicals caused an elevated expression of genes associated with inflammation in the nervous system. This so-called neuroinflammation is commonly seen in autism and neurodegenerative conditions.
One of these groups of chemicals altered the levels of many of the same genes that are altered in the brains of people with autism or Alzheimer's disease.
Chemicals in this group included the pesticides rotenone, pyridaben, and fenpyroximate, and a new class of fungicides that includes pyraclostrobin, trifloxystrobin, fenamidone, and famoxadone. Azoxystrobin, fluoxastrobin, and kresoxim-methyl are also in this fungicide class.
The studies were performed at the UNC School of Medicine.
Jeannie T. Lee, MD, PhD, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, who was not involved in this research, said, "This is a very important study that should serve as a wake-up call to regulatory agencies and the general medical community.
The work is timely and has wide-ranging implications not only for diseases like autism, Parkinson's, and cancer, but also for the health of future generations.
I suspect that a number of these chemicals will turn out to have effects on transgenerational inheritance."
What is being sprayed in quantity of these fungicides?
fruits,
vegetables,
cereals,
spinach,
kale,
and in general leafy green vegetables such as lettuce
The use of all the fungicides in this group has increased dramatically over the past decade.
In a study from the Environmental Protection Agency, it found that pyraclostrobin is found on foods at levels that could potentially affect human biology, and another study linked pyraclostrobin usage to honeybee colony collapse disorder.
Diseases of autism, Parkinson's, and cancer could very well be exacerbated by consuming these fungicides in our foods.
Adults and children alike it seems potentially are at risk and the scientists are asking to do more studies to document/study the affects in humans. Possibly blood and serum tests can be developed to determine levels in the nerves/fatty tissues of these toxins... maybe a way to remove the fungicides.
(Source (http://www.news-medical.net/news/20160331/Commonly-used-fungicides-could-cause-gene-expression-changes-in-brain-cells.aspx))
Additional information:
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/fungicides
http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/12734.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955666/
http://www.waldeneffect.org/20121021sprayingappletrees.jpg
A long term study has been completed using mice.
A member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, and his group found that these chemicals reduced the expression of genes involved in synaptic transmission - the connections important for communication between neurons.
If these genes are not expressed properly, then brains cannot function normally.
Also, these chemicals caused an elevated expression of genes associated with inflammation in the nervous system. This so-called neuroinflammation is commonly seen in autism and neurodegenerative conditions.
One of these groups of chemicals altered the levels of many of the same genes that are altered in the brains of people with autism or Alzheimer's disease.
Chemicals in this group included the pesticides rotenone, pyridaben, and fenpyroximate, and a new class of fungicides that includes pyraclostrobin, trifloxystrobin, fenamidone, and famoxadone. Azoxystrobin, fluoxastrobin, and kresoxim-methyl are also in this fungicide class.
The studies were performed at the UNC School of Medicine.
Jeannie T. Lee, MD, PhD, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, who was not involved in this research, said, "This is a very important study that should serve as a wake-up call to regulatory agencies and the general medical community.
The work is timely and has wide-ranging implications not only for diseases like autism, Parkinson's, and cancer, but also for the health of future generations.
I suspect that a number of these chemicals will turn out to have effects on transgenerational inheritance."
What is being sprayed in quantity of these fungicides?
fruits,
vegetables,
cereals,
spinach,
kale,
and in general leafy green vegetables such as lettuce
The use of all the fungicides in this group has increased dramatically over the past decade.
In a study from the Environmental Protection Agency, it found that pyraclostrobin is found on foods at levels that could potentially affect human biology, and another study linked pyraclostrobin usage to honeybee colony collapse disorder.
Diseases of autism, Parkinson's, and cancer could very well be exacerbated by consuming these fungicides in our foods.
Adults and children alike it seems potentially are at risk and the scientists are asking to do more studies to document/study the affects in humans. Possibly blood and serum tests can be developed to determine levels in the nerves/fatty tissues of these toxins... maybe a way to remove the fungicides.
(Source (http://www.news-medical.net/news/20160331/Commonly-used-fungicides-could-cause-gene-expression-changes-in-brain-cells.aspx))
Additional information:
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/fungicides
http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/12734.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955666/
http://www.waldeneffect.org/20121021sprayingappletrees.jpg