The bad guys finally got Bruce Willis. They dropped him in plain sight. We all watched them do it and we didn’t see a thing. They walked right up to him. Tough and smart as Bruce is, he didn’t see it coming either. He didn’t even put up a fight. If fact, he made it easy for them. He took the gun, said thanks, put it to his head, deadpanned yippie kai yay motherfucker, and pulled the trigger. Over and over.
Like millions of people, Bruce smoked a lot of cigarettes in his life. And now he’s dying from a terrible form of dementia. So lots of people probably see what’s happening to Bruce and say “Well, it was the smoking.” And that’s enough for everybody – heavy smoking musta done it.
That’s how the bad guys get away with murder for profit – every time, with Bruce and with every other person whose mind and body they slowly destroy, bleeding them for every last dollar. They get away with it because everybody, including the victim, assumes they know what’s going on and because they’ve been trained to think it’s OK for that to happen, then it’s OK. Sad, but OK. He brought it on himself because he smoked. It’s harsh, but he deserved it, and tough guy that he is, he would admit it too. And he would be terribly, tragically wrong, along with everyone else. He didn’t deserve it because he had no idea what he was smoking. Nobody does.
So here’s the thing – what we’re all missing. It wasn’t smoking or tobacco that took Bruce Willis’s mind.
He didn’t know it, and nobody knows it, because the FDA keeps it a secret, but every one of those cigarettes he smoked was heavily contaminated with a neurotoxic cocktail of insecticides and fungicides that attack and degrade the human brain and nervous system.
Relevant to Bruce Willis – chronic exposure to pesticides, like inhaling them daily by smoking cigarettes loaded with them, is strongly linked by impeccable research to the development and progression of Alzheimer’s and Dementia. I’m going to give you links to that science, but first, check out the hard data on what Bruce was inhaling for all those years. I don’t know if he specifically smoked one of these brands, but every commercial brand is equally contaminated.
Linking pesticide exposure and dementia: what is the evidence?
“At the cellular and molecular level, the mechanism of action of many classes of pesticides suggests that these compounds could be, at least partly, accountable for the neurodegeneration accompanying AD and other dementias.”
Pesticide exposure and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
“Evidence suggests that lifelong cumulative exposure to pesticides may generate lasting toxic effects on the central nervous system and contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A number of reports indicate a potential association between long-term/low-dose pesticide exposure and AD, but the results are inconsistent. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis to clarify this association.“
“Subgroup analyses revealed that high-quality studies tended to show significant relationships. The present meta-analysis suggested a positive association between pesticide exposure and AD, confirming the hypothesis that pesticide exposure is a risk factor for AD.“
Can Pesticide Exposure Lead To Dementia?
“Depending on genetics, some people will be more likely to store pesticides in their brain tissue. Individuals can differ in their ability to breakdown the pesticides in the body, and some of these breakdown products are themselves toxic. The age of exposure may also play a role in one’s vulnerability to a particular health effect. For example, the child of a pregnant woman exposed to pesticides may experience a greater impact on brain function relative to the mother. As a result, the threshold for pesticide exposure-related toxicity to the brain will vary from person to person.”
Neuropathological Mechanisms Associated with Pesticides in Alzheimer’s Disease
“In the past 5 years, the link between pesticide exposure and AD has been considerably strengthened, while basic understanding of pesticide-associated neuropathology has improved.”
Pesticides and Development of Alzheimer’s Disease — New Evidence
Although further research is warranted, the mechanistic explanation of why pesticide exposure (DDT/DDE) would increase AD risk is rooted in their propensity to increase amyloid precursor protein.
Elevated serum pesticide levels and risk for Alzheimer disease
“Serum levels of DDE were highly correlated with brain levels of DDE (ρ = 0.95). Exposure of human neuroblastoma cells to DDT or DDE increased levels of amyloid precursor protein. Both DDT and DDE increase amyloid precursor protein levels, providing mechanistic plausibility for the association of DDE exposure with AD. Identifying people who have elevated levels of DDE and carry an APOE ε4 allele may lead to early identification of some cases of AD.“
NOW FOR SOME REALLY BAD NEWS
DDT and all the other organochlorine pesticides, a very long list, were heavy contaminants of all cigarette brands from the 1950s through the 1970s – the very age groups of smokers in whom population-wide Alzheimer’s first began showing up in the 1990s. Check this 2022 CDC document showing clear institutional awareness of DDT on Tobacco products. People who smoked in the 50s-70s, and their children, are at high risk for development of Dementia and Alzheimer’s.
Here’s a document published by CDC to demonstrate that DDT is no longer a problem in tobacco products – inadvertently giving us firm evidence of the levels of DDT contamination in tobacco products during those years 1960-1990, and without meaning to, pointing to the epidemic of Dementia and Alzheimer’s today.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2022. Toxicological Profile for DDT, DDE, DDD . Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Toxicological Profile for DDT, DDE, and DDD
“Djordjevic et al. (1995) assessed the chlorinated pesticide residues in U.S. and foreign cigarettes manufactured from the 1960s to the 1990s. Since 1970, the concentration of DDT analogues decreased by >98%. Concentration ranges of DDT-related compounds in samples of cigarettes manufactured between 1961 and 1979 and between 1983 and 1994 were:
p,p’-DDD,
(1961–1979 levels) 1,540–30,100 ng/g (Ed. note: 30,100 ng/g isapproximately equal to 30.1 ppm.)
(1983–1994 levels) 12.6–99.7 ng/g;
o,p’-DDD,
(1961–1979 levels) 396–7,150 ng/g,
(1983–1994 levels) ND-19.0 ng/g;
p,p’-DDT,
(1961–1979 levels) 720–13,390 ng/g, (Ed. note: 13,390 ng/g is approximately equal to 13.99 ppm)
(1983–1994 levels) 19.7–145 ng/g;
o,p’-DDT,
(1961–1979 levels) 105–1,940 ng/g;
(1983–1994 levels) ND-88 ng/g;
p,p’-DDE,
(1961–1979 levels) 58– 959 ng/g,
(1983–1994 levels) 6.6–15.8 ng/g;
p,p’-DDMU (1-chloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene),
(1961–1979 levels) 92.7–2,110 ng/g,
(1983–1994 levels) ND–27.5 ng/g.
“The transfer rate from tobacco into mainstream smoke amounts to 22% for DDD, 19% for DDT, and 27% for DDE.” (p. 332)
And then to summarize their findings, FDA says: “Until 1970, tobacco smoke contributed significantly to the intake of DDT by humans, but since then, the amount of DDT in tobacco has dropped markedly.” Right – only a little in every puff. Great news! Except – the research above says otherwise.
It’s a shame that Bruce didn’t know about American Spirit organic tobacco cigarettes. They are pure tobacco with zero pesticides and there is zero evidence linking tobacco smoking itself to Alzheimer’s/Dementia. Bruce couldn’t have known about pesticide-free American Spirit organic cigarettes because FDA forced the manufacturer to say on the package that they are no safer than any other cigarettes just because they’re organic. Yes, they did that, deliberately and at great expense
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But the pesticides that were unregulated and in-inspected contaminants of Bruce’s cigarettes are, as you can see in the hard data above, strongly linked to the development of Bruce’s brain disease, and now he’s dying hard not because of smoking but because of those pesticides.
Why are the pesticides there in the first place? You can find the answer here.
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