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February 4, 2014
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New study links pesticide exposure to dementia

Screen Shot Finally Caught 2014-02-04 at 10.24.20 AMMy friend’s uncle who fogged the barn every morning before we got there to ride when I was younger, died last month at an early age from dementia. All of us who knew him will really miss him, and we will never know for sure why he suffered that fate. But a new study came out just a week ago in JAMA that found 4 times the level of DDT breakdown products in people with Alzheimer’s Disease than in the general population. DDT had already been banned, but pesticide exposure may well have been a factor in his disease. In retrospect with what we know now, a few flies would have been much better than any increased risk!

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