Continuous breathing of low levels of nerve poisons is suspected of accelerating the aging process by suppressing or damaging genes involved in maintaining health. While iron is essential for many functions in the body (i.e., liver enzymes and hemoglobin for oxygen carrying red blood cells), too much iron can cause accelerated damage to organs, including the liver and heart. Living within 1 mile of food crops grown using pesticides was shown to result in a higher rate of autism and developmental disorders in children. Annals of Neurology, Volume 57:176179, The strongest evidence we have so far is by Professor Ahlbom and his studies relating to chronice EMF exposure and childhood Leukemia, where it appears that exposure to magnetic fields higher than 400 nT increases the risk. In this current study, the chemical trichlorfon was found to cause a - severe reduction - in brain weight and shape of test animals. 111(9):1259-1264, July, 2003 The first stage of the blood brain barrier is made from exceptionally "tight-junctions" between cells that line the blood vessels supplying nutrients to the brain. Epilepsia, Volume 47(11):1761-1774, November, 2006 BACKGROUND: In the last two decades reports from different countries emerged associating pesticide and herbicide use with Parkinson's disease (PD). High brain cancer rates were found for people living near a cranberry agricultural growing area in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In a study by the Department of Health Science at California State University, 12 individuals, which included a teacher, six housewives, a retail owner, a musician and an engineer, were studied for 1 to 4.5 years after they became ill when their home or place of employment was treated with the pesticide. As seen in two studies below, the blood brain barrier defense can be weakened or damaged by pesticides. The most important factor increasing fetal death rate was the timing of pesticide exposure. View Original Journal Article Low-frequency radiation is less harmful than high-frequency radiation, which can damage DNA and cells. For example, men who were exposed to the weed killer 20 or more days per year had over a 3 times greater chance of developing the disease. Read More. Neurobiology of Aging, Volume 28(7):977-986, July, 2007 The study, which involved almost 700 women in 10 California counties, showed that pregnant mothers who lived near food crops where certain pesticides were sprayed faced significantly increased rates of miscarriage due to birth defects. Annals of Neurology, Volume 57:176179, There is also a metabolic blood brain barrier that helps to remove toxic chemicals getting past these tight junctions. Employing logistic regression models, the scientists estimated the effect of pesticide use controlling for age, gender, race, birthplace, year of deaths, and education. The three pesticides had disrupted blood brain barrier permeability by 130, 80, and 50% respectively. In this 2013 study, published in the journal Entropy, by Anthony Samsel and Dr. Stephanie Seneff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the researchers show how the chemical glyphosate is linked to increasing autism rates by causing changes in body chemistry that affect important enzyme and biological systems critical in brain development and maintaining brain integrity. (Chem-Tox Note: Outdoor pesticides are much different from indoor pesticides as they include fungicides and herbicides some of which have been reported to contain dioxin). "The presence of several different types of autoantibodies, e.g., antimyelin, antismooth muscle, anti brush boarder, and antimicrosomal, indicates that generalized tissue injury has occurred. Children under age 1 have a more positive prognosis. Although the pesticide was banned for home and yard pest control in the United States in 2000, it is still used extensively in agriculture and is routinely a contaminant in non-organic food sources and can be found in homes treated with the pesticide in the 80's and 90's. The same pattern was seen with the common pesticides chlorpyrifos and malathion. Read More. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The problem with large scale corn farms is the spraying of atrazine. Atrazine is banned in the EU, but about 76 million pounds are sprayed in the US. Little known disaster about Atrazine is that high levels are found in the water table throughout the US cornbelt. Scientists say this time period correlates with the brain growth spurt period for the animal. Healthy children had no measureable levels of the pesticide DDT, There are corn husks on the cob inside of corn, and they are green After many decades of being pointed to as a source of environmental issues, field crop agriculture is being looked to as one of the solutions to global climate change. Results showed that higher levels of the breakdown product of DDT (DDE) was associated with increased risk of diabetes. Read More. glyphosate, Obesity Higher in Children with Higher Pesticide Levels, SOURCE: Reviews of Environmental Health, 26(3): 215-9, 2011 5(1):S19-S24, 1994). The excessive fertilizer from corn farms also runs off into rivers and oceans causing dead zones that are harmful to marine life. 2005, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Tampere, The pesticide chlorpyrifos (called Lorsban in agriculture) is showing evidence of causing immune system disorders in people. Whats good and bad about living near a volcano? Child exposure can occur from pesticides on the father being inhaled and transferred to the child. Mice exposed to one or the other alone showed no ill effects, but when the combination was given they showed clear patterns of brain damage. www.chem-tox.com/neuroblastoma - neuroblastoma research summaries, Drs. All of the children in the study were 10 years of age or younger. Everyone is protected from pesticide harm by a liver enzyme known as cytochrome P-450. WebIs living near to farm a bad choice? And if you are gluten-sensitive, there are CHEM-TOX COMMENT: Also of significance, the human brain begins growing at over 4,000 cells per second beginning in the 4th week of pregnancy, thereby suggesting this would be a highly vulnerable time period. To determine if the pesticides were damaging the blood brain barrier, animals were injected with a radioactive tracer. Dr. Christine G Parks of the National Institute of Environmental Health studied health reports from nearly 77,000 women participating in the Women's Health Initiative. Health Disorders Occurring at Higher Rates in Agricultural Settings Job occupations included farmers, agricultural workers, agricultural machinery drivers, gardeners and foresters. Pesticides in the Air Weeks After Application Wilms' tumor is a type of kidney cancer that is the fourth most common childhood cancer, accounting for approximately 6% of all malignancies diagnosed before 15 years of age). This entire report has been translated to Spanish which can be viewed HERE. Keep in mind that these studies were looking for physical defects and were not looking for neurological defects in offspring (which typically occur at much lower levels). Anxiety. Read More. Microcephaly is a medical condition in which the brain is considerably smaller than normal, resulting in decreased intelligence and behavior problems. Read More. The background statement of this research states exposure to several common agricultural pesticides during pregnancy can induce developmental neurotoxicity in humans, and has been associated with developmental delay and autism. The risk of NHL was dose-dependent and increased with the frequency of use of the pesticide. In this study, researchers investigated the effects of a combination of six common pesticides used in agriculture. The incidence rate of NHL has been rising 3-4% a year. Leukaemia Research Fund, Center for Clinical Epidemiology, University of Leeds, Brain's Defense Damaged from Agriculture Weed Killer Department of Health Science, California State University, Hydrocephaly & Cleft Palet Linked to Agriculture Fungicide, SOURCE: Bulletin of Environmental Contamination Toxicology, 54:363-369, 1995 Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, Child Brain Development Harmed by Agriculture Pesticide Chlorpyrifos (Lorsban), SOURCE: Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 134(1):53-62, 1995 In a related study described below, researchers found that switching to organic food resulted in a dramatic drop in malathion levels in children. Read More. Results were recorded to a database for future reference. View Journal Online However, malathion can cause many serious health disorders other than death. View Journal Article 4. It's closely related family members include the fungicides triadimefon, triadimenol, bitertanol, flusilazole, 1,2,4-triazole, and propiconazole. The cause of these health problems is believed to result from low level pesticide vapors that are present in the air days and sometimes weeks after application on food crops. The powerful neurotoxic nature of the pesticide was further emphasized when the scientists found that these brain abnormalities did not occur when animals were exposed to the other pesticides tested - soman - TOCP and ethyl-trichlorfon. Investigators questioned both parents regarding use of pesticides in and around the home. The results showed the children living in the pesticide treated homes had nearly 4 times greater risk of developing the disease. View original article at - http://www.spandidos-publications.com/ijmm/34/5/1395 School of Medicine, Univ. California Defects in blood brain barrier function was also seen at exposure levels of only 1/100th the amount needed to kill 50% of the animals. CHEM-TOX COMMENT: This study is of concern as pyrethroid pesticides are commonly used in agriculture and have replaced previously banned organophosphate pesticides. Levels of the pesticide in pregnant women living in an agricultural region of Califoria had median urinary levels 2 to 3 times higher at 21.5 and 18.5 micrograms/liter (mcg/l) and 95th percentile values of approximately 1950 mcg/l (Castorina et al., 2010). Read More. Results showed the number of resorptions (similar to an early miscarriage) was over 8 times greater for the animals exposed to the 50 and 75 mg/kg doses. The prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes was 61% among men employed to spray pesticides and only 8% among 92 non-exposed controls. View Original Journal Article Patients start out with tremors and can become paralyzed and die. There is now a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico which threatens animals, plants, and whole ecosystems. - Quora Farmers know that expansion brings increased odor. Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma is the name given to a group of blood cell cancers that develop from lymphatic cells within the lymph nodes. Rashes. Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Children Living Near Farms have Higher Levels of Pesticides Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA, USA Of great concern (because of the rapid rise of diabetes, over the past 20 years), 21 studies presented at the 2015 European Association for the Study of Diabetes show pesticides increase the risk of diabetes by 61%. 2. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA WebIs living near to farm a bad choice? Each child was tested daily for pesticide levels over 15 consecutive days. Others have been found to react with sunlight, and through a process known as photolysis, form even more toxic compounds. This would suggest that the pesticide could also cause an accelerated worsening of the condition for individuals who already have an inherited form of the disease. Read More. College of Applied Medical Sciences However, if pesticide levels are higher in children with diabetes, we then begin painting a picture that eating conventionally grown pesticide foods, living near agriculture or using pesticides in the home, may very well be a major contributing factor to diabetes. While this report emphasizes the dangers of residential homes close to agriculture, similar health effects could be expected for those working in offices or schools within one mile from agriculture as well. Some pesticides react with sunlight (in a process known as photolysis) to form new chemicals that are more toxic than the original. Looking at pesticide use for the lawn and garden resulted in an increased risk of 120% (Odds Ratio=2.2) when the mother had applied pesticides in the yard and 50% higher (Odds Ratio=1.5) when the father had applied pesticides in the yard. This has enormous implications," Cory-Slechta said in a statement. Some people, however, have only 1/3rd the normal levels of these important enzymes, and therefore, would have higher levels of pesticides in their blood for longer periods of time, thereby resulting in more harm from the chemical. 3. This is the conclusion from the following report summarizing over 25 peer reviewed studies over the past 30 years. The pesticide malathion is one of the most widely applied pesticides. Pro-inflammatory IL-6 (interleukin-6) was also significantly elevated in farmers compared to controls. The fast-fulfilling signs of the times declare that the coming of Christ is near at hand. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Babies born to families living near wheat growing agricultural areas using chemical pesticides were found to have a 65% greater risk of having birth defects related to the circulatory/respiratory system. Children living within 200 feet of pesticide sprayed groves had the highest blood levels of pesticides and contaminated house dust. This situation may be further amplified in poorer communities in Africa and South America that receive highly concentrated levels of pesticides from backback spray techniques - Homes here typically do not have "closeable" windows, thereby dramatically increasing exposure to family members. Continuous breathing of low levels of nerve poisons is suspected of accelerating the aging process by suppressing or damaging genes involved in maintaining health. For example, if pesticide levels were the same in both groups, it suggests that pesticides do not harm the body in a way that increases diabetes. In some cases, the long-term effects of living near a refinery closely resemble the damage caused by secondhand smoke or living beside a freeway. Extrapolating these results to humans, we would then expect younger children to receive far more harm from pesticide exposure than adolescents or adults. Adult rats showed no evidence of blood brain barrier damage whatsoever. When looking at musculoskeletal/intergumental anomalies for both sexes in the high-wheat growing counties, there was a 50% increased risk of these types of defects. Along with the doubling of ADHD for children testing positive for the pesticide, every 10-fold increase in 3-PBA resulted in an additional 50% increase in hyperactive-impulsive behavior. For the pesticide chlorpyrifos (which has been linked to many health disorders affecting the brain and weakening of the immune system), levels were approximately 6 micrograms/liter on conventional foods and then dropped to 2 micrograms per liter after eating organic (a 3-fold reduction). On certain floodplains there is a risk of the house being washed away. Researchers suspect that a combination of genetic vulnerability and exposure to something in the environment may be responsible. In this 1999 research, scientists exposed 10 day old rat pups to three separate pesticides. View Original Journal Article This included atrazine, metribuzine, endosulfan, lindane, aldicarb and dieldren. Read More. Volcanic eruptions can result in additional threats to health, such as floods, mudslides, power outages, drinking water contamination, and wildfires. "This is the first study to our knowledge of pesticides and pregnancy in which exposures were in close proximity to the subjects and the verification of pesticide use was objective, not relying on people's memories of what they might have been exposed to," Hertz-Picciotto said. This is the conclusion from the following report summarizing over 25 peer reviewed studies over the past 30 years. Of great significance, this birth defect occurred after only one exposure to the chemical. Everyone is protected from pesticide harm by a liver enzyme known as cytochrome P-450. WebThe dangers can maim and even kill. A follow-up study now needs to be done to determine if natural killer cells and autoimmunity are affected by these levels of pesticides. but diabetic children had levels of .24. The researchers were investigating for any abnormalities in immune system function. Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and The fetal body weight was significantly less even at the lowest dose of 20 mg/kg. As hepcidin levels increase in the blood, the small intestines react by blocking iron from being re-absorbed back into the body. If someone wanted to harm them or steal things, they could easily walk right through those fields - simply appear, then disappear. Read More. Julie L. Daniels, Andrew F. Olshan, Kay Teschke, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Dave A. Savitz, Julie Blatt, Melissa L. Bondy, Joseph P. Neglia, Brad H. Pollock, Susan L. Cohn, A. Thomas Look, Robert C. Seeger, Robert P. Castleberry A study of 3,827 Florida pesticide applicators employed for 20 or more years found they had nearly 3 times the risk for developing lung cancer. There is a about a 10-15 foot line of trees and brush between the corn field and this property - pretty thick in some spots, kind of open in others. During phase 2 (days 6 to 10) - children ate only organic foods. (Astrocytomas are in the family of "glioma" cancers which begin in the glial tissue (glial tissue are the cells which hold the other brain cells together). Kidney Cancer (Wilms' Tumor) Higher for Children, SOURCE: British Journal of Cancer, 77(5):825-829, March 1998 EPA estimates that 4.6 million pounds of MCPA are used each year in agricultural and residential applications. This study was conducted to investigate the link between exposure to environmental pesticides and childhood obesity. Farmers facing standing cornfields should know their risks. 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