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Glyphosate exacerbates neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease-like pathology

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I wonder what they know? https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...

“You know, if we don’t do something about Alzheimer’s in America, every single, solitary hospital bed that exists in America — as the nurses can tell you — every single one will be occupied in the next 15 years with an Alzheimer’s patient — every one — costing us in excess of a trillion dollars.”

It’s a good thing the incoming president will free us of government overreach such as regulating dangerous chemicals and toxic herbicides!

don't worry, the free market will ensure that products that cause neuroinflammation and Alzheimers are outcompeted by ones which don't. Problem solved.

I legitimately can't tell wether or not this is satire.

thats the joke

Pretty sure the incoming president is going to add more regulation against glyphosate, almost guaranteed with RFK in there.

Glyphosate was the active ingredient in Roundup weed killer. Nowadays they have less toxic formulations. However glyphosate is the only herbicide I know of that kills Dallisgrass. Some of my neighbors had an infestation that they decided to resod their entire lawn.

We'll see if the new formulation is still "less toxic" after 20 years of further research. At one point even DDT was less toxic, until we found out it wasn't.

And at one point glyphosate was less toxic as well.

Reminds me of the arsenic seed covers they had in wartimes. Oh, wait that was the old good stuff, it was mercury.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quecksilberbeizen

So the toxicity of glyphosate changes with time? That would be an interesting chemical property! I can see that there might be unusual presumably complex reasons as to how that might have occurred but what is your evidence?

Is like when bisphenol A (BPA)[1] was found to be toxic in many studies, and manufacturers started advertising baby bottles and other childcare items as "BPA Free", while replacing it with bisphenol F (BPF)[2], chemically very similar and probably just as toxic, but less studied. Toxicity does not necessarily change with time, but our knowledge about it does.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_F

I suspect the intended meaning of the comment you're responding to is that it was thought to be less toxic when it was first introduced, not that the actual toxicity has changed.

They are saying that glyphosate was considered to be a less toxic pesticide

Heh, I bet this is actually what killed my dad - glyphosate is what’s in agent orange. He had alzheimers-like symptoms at the end of his life… from what he told me, the air base at da nang was practically bathed in the stuff. It was just everywhere.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/fifty-years-after-a-daunting-...

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44268

Agent Orange didn’t contain glyphosate but two other herbicides. Glyphosate didn’t exist until 1970. The damage from Agent Orange came from dioxin.

My father (farmer) has been diagnosed with AD. In the 90’s he had direct accidental exposure to herbicide drift from a crop duster in a windy day. He suffered from a short term illness immediately after and peripheral neuropathy since; I wonder if his AD diagnosis can be added to the list?

Also: AD fucking sucks.

A one time exposure? People that live on or around farms are constantly exposed to glyphosate. Infact they spray so much glyphosate it ends up killing trees in neighbors yards.

I think a charitable read would be a ‘one time extreme exposure.’ Passive exposure is bad, of course, but getting poison dumped on you by a crop duster has to be terrible.

Yes, one time extreme exposure. Enough to make him sick for weeks that I never saw before or after.

No doubt continuous exposure didn’t help at all or might have been the real cause… or all of it combined. Or none of it.

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