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Dementia and car pollution
« on: November 14, 2016, 04:20:21 PM »
In the UK we had our 'cause of Death' stats released today and Dementia now tops the list ( taking over from heart disease).

Studies have shown magnetite nano particles in the brains of folk suffering/dying from Alzheimer's and both the engines and brakes of vehicles produce Magnetite nano particles.

We also are seeing an uptick in early onset Alzheimer's. Are the two things linked?

I was born in the early 60's and , along with the rest, we played out on the streets where we lived. Only occasionally were our 'football matches' interrupted by a car coming along. I visited that street a few years back ( showing my son where I grew up) and each side of the road was parked up solid and every front garden given over to parking.

So I'm thinking that anyone born after 1980 has lived immersed in the age of the automobile ( where most homes had at least 1 car?) and so has been taking up magnetite from cars/trucks/vans/busses all their lives? Could this point to why we see an uptick in early onset Alzheimer's with those 'prone' to suffering having their chances augmented by added magnetite in their brains from automobile pollution?
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Re: Dementia and car pollution
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2016, 04:40:25 PM »
Magnetite particles are also prevalent in air pollution from power plant smokestacks.

Industrial air pollution leaves magnetic waste in the brain
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/industrial-air-pollution-leaves-magnetic-waste-brain
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Re: Dementia and car pollution
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2016, 09:38:33 PM »
Magnetite particles are also prevalent in air pollution from power plant smokestacks.

Industrial air pollution leaves magnetic waste in the brain
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/industrial-air-pollution-leaves-magnetic-waste-brain


I wonder if "down winders" intelligence is effected. Combined with lead poisoning from defective city plumbing it might explain away some of the disturbing results that The Bell Curve claims.


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Re: Dementia and car pollution
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2016, 10:20:44 PM »
Another factor that's changed is that lifestyles have become more sedentary, and exercise is still pretty much the number one intervention proven to postpone dementia. So those kids that once played football in the street have been replaced by kids playing on game consoles. And many of their parents have commuted sitting down to a sit down day at work and sat in their cars all the way home to sit all evening in front of the TV again.
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Re: Dementia and car pollution
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2016, 12:36:36 PM »
Dementia rates are actually going down. It just gets put on death certificates more these days.

I'm not sure how widely available BBC radio programmes are, but it was featured on More or Less last week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082klf9