Environmental Chemicals, Your Genes, and Neuro-Inflammation

Often we blame genetics for our health challenges.

We do have susceptibility to certain things, what we do & are exposed to determine what happens. You can learn a little more about this, epigenetics here.

In this case, a small sample of 976 chemicals tested for effects on brain inflammation finds five of these common chemicals caused brain inflammation.

They used a zebra fish model because they could test for reactions that are also associated with similar processes in human brains and obviously it’s unethical to use people…

Although you could make a case that this experiment is exactly what’s happening on a larger scale with untold hundreds of thousands of chemicals we’re exposed to regularly in our food, air, water, and environment.




Reference:
https://neurosciencenews.com/environment-neurology-10592/