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About This Podcast
Climate change is doing more than raising sea levels and intensifying storms. It's quietly reshaping the chemical environment we live in, increasing our exposure to compounds that may damage the brain over decades. This episode explores a surprising connection: how warming waters spawn toxic algal blooms, how heat drives increased pesticide use, and how extreme weather spreads microplastics, all converging on the same cellular mechanisms that drive Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and A.L.S. We walk through three distinct pathways from environmental change to neurodegeneration, explain why different toxins cause similar brain damage, and discuss what rising dementia rates in Asia Pacific regions might reveal about rapid environmental shifts. The science suggests our changing climate isn't just an ecological crisis, it may be a neurological one too.
Source Article
- Title
- Climate Change, the Exposome and the Rising Burden of Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Review
- Authors
- Published
- 2025
- Journal
- Earth Environmental Sustainability
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.53941/eesus.2025.100006