>> The mystery behind the astronomical rise in neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s could be caused by exposure to environmental toxins that are omnipresent yet poorly understood, leading doctors warn.
Keto/low carb/and especially fasting+lowcarb was shown to help in many of these diseases.
This article smells like misdirection away from sugar which is a poison which our kids eat in insane quantaties.
It's because of fructose (sugar) that fatty liver disease and T2 diabetes, which was once a disease that only appeared in adult alchoholics, now also happens in children and non-alchoholic adults: ~1980 was the 1st known case of a kid getting fatty liver.
One study found a quick way to eliminate fatty liver in kids: replacing 10% to 15% of carb calories of fructose with glucose.
Fat + fructose is also particulary dangerous, though the issue is not fat but fructose, it's just that when you combine them the negative effects of fructose get much, much more severe.
What does alzheimer and cancer have in common? Both cells have damaged mitchochondria. The difference between neurons and non-neuron cells in other parts of the body is that neurons do not have the ability to use the Warburg effect since they are missing some glycolictic machinery in order for that to happen. This is why neurons cannot go "full cancer" like other cells in the body and just "die peacefully": BUT that deaths might then create negative side effects later.
One video below clearly shows that cancer is NOT caused by mutations of the nucleus of the cell, so this theory seems to be totaly wrong. It seems to be related to damaged mitochondria due to way too much fructose and glucose.
This ties in well why people had total cancer remission with water fasting + keto.
Also many people have that amyloid plaque in the brain and yet have zero dementia, so there goes the amyloid plaque theory.
In a way you could say that all of these diseases are "diabetes of the cells", just expressed in different forms.
High sugar load also causes high blood pressure through uric acid production -> this blocks N20 production in blood vesseles -> and there goes your ability to regulate blood pressure out through the window.
(I myself cured my own high blood pressure just be elimnating all processed sweets, I still eat tons of salt, I experimented with ~10 to 20g of salt per day and still had a blood pressure in the ~125/75 range, but before on processed sweets it was ~145/95).
Overconsumption of fructose (therefore sugar) seems to be the main cause. Even if you remove fructose (and sugar) from the human diet we humans never ate a high carb diet until the last 10k years ago when we started growing grains.
While glucose (eg starchy food like oats and potatoes) is less damaging than fructose (thus sugar) it's still not harmless.
Those who are interested in this topic can view these sources:
One can also find examples of full cancer remision in these links (TLRD: water fasting for ~5-7 days than a keto diet). One can more examples of this on the net.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXiQgTZZqPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK0BkTPUGQY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJQn6WZGAQ0