Do
Pesticides cause harm to human health?
And if so,what are the harmful effects
of pesticides to human health?
The answer is coming up next, so stick around.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Welcome back. I'm Dr Joe of TheDrJoe.com
Right, the question is: do pesticides pose a threat to human health?
The answer to that question is:
Yes, they do! They do pose a threat to human health.
Se we're talking about
The harmful effects of pesticides to human health
 
So, let's go
First thing you should know is pesticides are designed to kill
That's the name of the game
The only thing is: they are not designed to kill humans, they are designed to kill pests
 
So, any harm to human health is
a collateral damage. It's unintended
But it mustn't be ignored because
it is real
I have a story. I've had a personal experience with this. I used to buy
a particular product
I was using it for about 6 months or thereabout
and I discovered that
I was having this Jabbing pain on my left arm. Jabbing pain
and I also had
loss of sensation to a certain nerve distribution area
Doctors will know what I am talking about
on my left arm as well
And i couldn't figure out what the problem was
But I suspected that it was a particular food that I was eating
and I
did all sorts of things. Nothing worked
and my suspicion grew and in the end
I decided to eliminate that food
and within 4 weeks, it took a while
within about 4 weeks
the symptoms were completely gone. they were gone
You might say, maybe it was just a coincidence
Well, I thought so too. So, I re-introduced the food
back into my diet and what happened?
The symptoms were back within 2 weeks
of re-starting the food, so, it was obvious that
some of the pesticides in that food were causing the problem
because they were causing me a neurological problem
and in the end I stopped using that food product and
that's it, I've not had any problems with it again
So, that's just one proof
Now, in actual fact, the WHO, World Heath Organisation
actually estimates that; there are 3 million cases of
pesticide poisoning a year
in the world
3 million cases of pesticide poisoning in a year all over the world
Indeed WHO also thinks
that there are 18,000 deaths annually
as a result of pesticide poisoning
or pesticide use, as it were
all over the world. Okay, so it is
not a joke. It's for real
Now, who is at risk? The question is: who's at risk?
Everyone, everyone
We all eat, don't we?
So, everyone is at risk
However,
Children in particular are more at risk
Why is this? It's because kids are smaller in size
they consume the same things that we eat
relatively in terms of size
and volume
the pesticide will be concentrated in children
compared to an adult because of their small size
So, that's the background to what I'm going to talk about
So the next thing we're going to talk about now is:
What are the actual symptoms
and some of the harmful effects that you actually experience
if you are having a
pesticide-related issue
I've just given you an example of my own experience
so, I'm going to talk about what
happens in the general population. That's next
So what are the harmful effects of pesticides to human health?
well, it's a laundry list
a laundry list but these are some of the symptoms  that
I will just mention in this video
Memory loss, okay, memory loss
Sometimes you might have problems with your memory. It might be due to
the use of pesticides
Altered mood, alright. You may be having problems with depression,
anxiety or you just feel
generally low for no reason. You have to
think about pesticides that are in your food
Poor concentration, poor concentration.
that's another. Problems with your vision,
problems with your vision. You might have problems with your vision
and also poor co-ordination
That's another symptom that you may
experience when you use
food produce with lots of pesticides in them
Then the more serious conditions
will include things like Asthma
Allergies. You know sometimes people develop allergies for no reason
It's probably because they've been eating foods contaminated
with pesticides
Hormonal disturbance, hormonal disturbance
alright
under-active thyroid. Some of these pesticides may interfere with
thyroid function
Fertility problems
In particular in men
What happens is that; pesticides can cause a reduction
in Sperm count
Reduction in sperm count as well
as abnormal sperms. So, you have a huge
concentration of  abnormal sperms because of
consumption of pesticides in your
food.
And what happens as a result of all of these
Birth defects
You can have children with
birth defects
Now, the more serious one
This is the one that concerns
us, the most and that is
It's been implicated. Cancer, alright ,cancer
It could be a problem. In particular, blood cancers
Lymphomas and Leukemias
These are the more serious ones
Yes, some people will argue that there's no definite causal relationship between
the use of pesticides and some of these conditions that I mentioned
Well, that may be true but we're never gonna get there
because you cannot have
Randomised Controlled Trials that you give one group
food produce loaded with pesicides
then another group food produce without pesticides
That would be unethical to do, so we're never gonna get studies like that
So, we'll have to make do with observational studies
The link is there
The next question is; what can you do to reduce your risk
or your exposure to pesticides
You might talk about buying organic produce but the problem  with organic  produce
is that; they are not always available
sometimes when you want them
and also as you know they're very expensive
and more importantly
if you watch my video where we talked about "The Dirty Dozen"
The Environmental Working Group actually pointed out
that in some of the organic produce,
there were pesticides in them
So, you're not exactly escaping
pesticide use when you buy organic produce
But I have a little trick
It's in one of my next videos
It talks about a little trick
a little technique that I use to
reduce my exposure
You may need to watch it if you're interested and also
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