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Parkinson's: How Pesticides Damage Brain Cells

6 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube lecture by Paul Savage MD explaining how exposure to pesticides can damage neurons relevant to Parkinson's disease: pesticides impair mitochondrial function, which reduces energy for vacuoles (autophagic/lysosomal degradation), allowing alpha-synuclein to accumulate inside neurons and cause neuronal damage.

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