Environmental Causes to Blame for Senior Mortality?
For decades, researchers have been blaming lifestyle and genetics for the onset of potentially fatal diseases such as Alzheimer’s or diabetes, but recently there’s been some indication that there are in fact environmental causes to blame.
In many seniors, death rates increased in seniors with Alzheimer’s and diabetes have had increased exposure to nitrates, nitrites and nitrosamines, which can cause damage to DNA and insulin resistance. So what are the culprits? Pesticides, and processed foods contain these potentially damaging substances that now seem to play a role in sending San Jose seniors to an early grave.
With access to the potential repercussions of exposure to these substances, generations can look to the future and try to avoid them – but for San Jose seniors who have gone through their lives unknowing of the potential repercussions, this information comes too little too late.
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