{"id":14375,"date":"2025-05-17T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14375"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:53:17","slug":"parkinsons-disease-surging-causes-environmental-risk-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/parkinsons-disease-surging-causes-environmental-risk-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Parkinson\u2019s Cases Are Surging\u2014and What\u2019s Causing It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What\u2019s Causing the Parkinson\u2019s Belt?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q9vo_UUoGjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Parkinson&#8217;s disease cases have more than doubled in the last 25 years, raising concerns beyond aging and genetics. Researchers are now pointing to environmental factors, especially pollution and pesticide exposure, as key contributors. Hotspots like the U.S. Rust Belt and military bases highlight the impact of air toxins and chemicals, offering a clearer link between environmental contamination and rising disease rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parkinson\u2019s cases are soaring worldwide, and mounting evidence points to pollution, pesticides, and industrial toxins, not just aging, as key drivers behind the surge.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/19995390\/pexels-photo-19995390\/free-photo-of-elderly-woman-walking-with-a-rollator-walker.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=1260&h=750&dpr=2","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[9902,9920,9906,9905,9918,9919,9913,9921,9924,9907,9909,9908,9915,9910,9925,9901,9917,9912,9904,9916,9922,9914,9903,341,9923,9911,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-14375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earth","8":"category-health-and-body","9":"tag-air-pollution-and-parkinsons","10":"tag-camp-lejeune-parkinsons-tce","11":"tag-dopamine-neuron-damage-pollution","12":"tag-environmental-causes-parkinsons","13":"tag-geographic-patterns-parkinsons","14":"tag-industrial-legacy-disease-risk","15":"tag-mitochondrial-dysfunction-parkinsons","16":"tag-netherlands-pollution-parkinsons-decline","17":"tag-neurotoxic-pollutants-parkinsons","18":"tag-nitrogen-oxides-brain-health","19":"tag-paraquat-pesticide-parkinsons-risk","20":"tag-parkinsons-disease-and-ozone","21":"tag-parkinsons-disease-epidemiology","22":"tag-parkinsons-disease-hotspots-usa","23":"tag-parkinsons-disease-public-health","24":"tag-parkinsons-disease-surge","25":"tag-parkinsons-environmental-risk-factors","26":"tag-parkinsons-prevention-air-quality","27":"tag-particulate-matter-neurodegeneration","28":"tag-pesticide-exposure-and-neurodegeneration","29":"tag-pollution-linked-neurological-disorders","30":"tag-rotenone-neurotoxin-effects","31":"tag-rust-belt-parkinsons-hotspot","32":"tag-scishow","33":"tag-toxic-chemicals-and-neurological-disease","34":"tag-trichloroethylene-and-brain-health","35":"tag-youtube","36":"post_format-post-format-video","37":"cs-entry","38":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14376,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions\/14376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}