504: How Pesticides, Air Pollution, and Industrial Toxins Are Fueling a Parkinson’s Epidemic | Ray Dorsey, MD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Dr. Ray Dorsey is a professor of neurology at the University of Rochester and a leading authority on the preventable environmental causes of Parkinson’s disease, and the co-author of The Parkinson’s Plan: A New Path to Prevention and Treatment, which lays out actionable steps to halt the world’s fastest-growing brain disease.
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| 0:30.7 | It's episode 504 of the genius life. |
| 0:34.3 | Let's go. |
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| 0:54.0 | What up, What up, everybody? I'm your host, Max Lugavirir, and welcome back to The Genius Life, a show where we talk about how to live longer, think sharper, and protect your most valuable asset, your brain. And yes, I'm still holding out hope for a day when future med students have to Google Parkinson's disease because it no longer exists. And that brings me to our guest today, and that is Dr. Ray |
| 1:12.7 | Dorsey. He's a professor of neurology at the University of Rochester and one of the world's |
| 1:16.9 | leading voices on the preventable environmental drivers of brain disease. Parkinson's disease, |
| 1:23.0 | now the fastest growing brain disease in the world, affects over 10 million people globally, |
| 1:27.6 | with cases projected to double in the coming decades. Dr. Dorsey's work makes a compelling case |
| 1:32.7 | that Parkinson's, dementia with louis bodies, ALS, even Alzheimer's are not just random acts of |
| 1:39.2 | biology. They're largely man-made, and that means they're preventable. This conversation will absolutely change |
| 1:45.8 | how you think about what's in your food, water, and air. We cover shocking new data linking |
| 1:50.3 | pesticides to Parkinson's, why living near a golf course could double your risk, how chemicals |
| 1:55.4 | like DDT and TCE linger for decades inside the body, and why 87% of Parkinson's cases have nothing to do with genetics. |
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