Parkinson’s Disease Caused By This Plastic

More and more research is emerging revealing that Parkinson’s disease is a lifestyle disease and completely preventable.

What’s more, taking the right actions, you can also prevent it from progressing, even reverse it naturally.

One of those studies was recently published in Science Advances. There, researchers discovered a specific type of plastic (we’re all exposed to) as one of the main causes of Parkinson’s disease.

With plastic production soaring, our environment is increasingly contaminated with microplastics, particularly those less than one micrometer in size known as nanoplastics. These pollutants, largely derived from single-use polystyrene items like foam packing and disposable cutlery, are becoming pervasive in our water and food supplies.

Because of the constant increase in Parkinson’s disease cases, the scientists responsible for the new study wondered whether these omnipresent contaminants could contribute.

Their investigation took two forms.

They first applied nanoplastics to alpha-synuclein in laboratory models of the human body and brain.

They then tested the effects of such particles on the brains of live mice.

This is what they found:

1. Nanoplastics bind tightly with alpha-synuclein proteins and are impossible to separate from them.

2. Because of the damage the plastics do to these proteins, the alpha-synuclein particles then stick to each other and start to build up into plaques.

3. The plastic modifies the alpha-synuclein proteins so they cannot degrade normally as they are meant to do.

4. In mice, alpha-synuclein contaminated with nanoplastics spreads very fast across interconnected brain regions, destroying neurons as they go along.

One of the alarming findings of this research is how nanoplastics compromise the blood-brain barrier. This barrier is crucial for protecting our brains from harmful substances that appear in our blood.

However, these nanoplastics can insert themselves into proteins that are able to pass through this barrier. As such, they find their way into our brains.

Recent studies have detected polystyrene plastic pollution in human blood, so as you are reading this, the plastic is slowly flowing into your brain.

One thing you can do to limit your intake of these contaminants is to use water filters that can remove microplastics from tap water.

But if you have already been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, you’ll need to take a few more actions to put its progression to a halt. Thousands of readers have successfully used these simple steps explained here…