Camp Lejeune Water Strongly Linked To Parkinson's Disease

Marines and sailors who were exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune, N.C., are much more likely to suffer from Parkinson's disease than their counterparts who were stationed elsewhere, according to a study published Monday. From a report: Troops stationed at Camp Lejeune for even just a few months during the years 1975-85 are 70% more likely to suffer from Parkinson's disease than troops who were at Camp Pendleton, Calif., according to findings from researchers who accounted for other factors in making their determination. Their report was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Department of Veterans Affairs-funded study was led by Dr. Samuel Goldman, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School and a staff physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have acknowledged for years that troops based at Camp Lejeune and other North Carolina facilities from the early 1950s until the mid-1980s were exposed to a number of harmful chemicals in the drinking water, including the solvents benzene and trichloroethylene, which are linked to Parkinson's. Water processed for the base was contaminated by improper chemical-disposal procedures from an off-base dry cleaner, leaky underground storage tanks, industrial spills and other problems for decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A million veterans and family members have been potentially affected, according to the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Tragedy

[felixrising]

What a huge tragedy, all due to inadequate controls on industry and insufficient water testing to safeguard health.

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[bugs2squash]

I presume the water tasted awful, so presumably they knew about it pretty quickly and did nothing

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[e3m4n]

I was there for a while. I never noticed. When you are hot, and dehydrated, even mineral tasting water tastes good.

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[RitchCraft]

I was there a few times in 87 and 88 for training exercises. I can verify this statement. Thirsty work.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like you want to blame the victims.

Or you have never tasted coastal North Carolina water.

Re: Tragedy

[Kobun]

Replace did nothing with actively covered it up and you have the size of it.

Drinking water should be distilled.

[Brain-Fu]

I live in an area that has hard water, and so I have a countertop water still that I use to distill all my drinking water. I find distilled water delicious, and have been drinking more water ever since I started doing this.

There is debate online about whether or not drinking distilled water is healthy, and a whole lot of ignorance on both sides. I will go ahead and set the record straight here and now, but I am not going to cite sources since this is unpaid volunteer work on my part, and anyone who is actually interested can do their own research.

Distilled water is very bad for babies. But so is tap water. Babies should get formula or breast milk only until after 6 months of age.

Distilled water is perfectly healthy for children and adults. It does not alter the PH of our bodies and it does not leech minerals out from our bones or organs. These false beliefs are based on a gross misunderstanding of orders of magnitude, and a few one-off studies in which nutrient-deprived animals were given excess amounts of distilled water, and wound up with mineral loss.

Distilled water has a perfectly neutral PH. But once exposed to air, it naturally absorbs some carbon dioxide and becomes mildly acidic. This freaks out people who don't realize that PH is measured on a logarithmic scale. By way of comparison, a banana is more acidic than air-exposed distilled water. Apple juice even more so. Soda pop is thousands of times more acidic than distilled water. Your body can handle it just fine.

Distilled water does not leach minerals. But it does not replace them either. You lose minerals due to sweating and other normal processes. You gain minerals by eating food. The minerals in tap water are trace amounts and in a form that carries low bio-availability. Simply put: you cannot rely on tap water to get your minerals. A single bite for broccoli has more minerals in it than a gallon of tap water. The mineral loss here is ONLY a concern for people running a marathon, or suffering an illness, and in all such cases tap water is just as bad as distilled water; they need oral rehydration salts added to the water either way.

So, distilled water is simply not dangerous, and is a totally viable alternative to tap water. It is better than tap water in that it does not carry pollutants (as per the present article, though all tap water is at risk of carrying whatever pollutants the filtration process didn't remove, since tap water is not distilled).

Now you know.

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[laughing_badger]

All correct, but there is a body of evidence that drinking hard water has a beneficial effect on heart health, so the best solution, if achievable, is to drink naturally occurring hard water that is free from pollutants - not always easy to achieve depending on where in the world you are.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... [nih.gov]

Re: Drinking water should be distilled.

[azcoyote]

Thanks! I was wondering why people say not to drink distilled water.

North Carolina water affects the brain?

[93 Escort Wagon]

Now a lot of things we've seen coming from that state are starting to make more sense...

Re: North Carolina water affects the brain?

[e3m4n]

Such as the Biltmores?

Replacing the Mesothelioma commercials

[sysrammer]

Anyone who watches warporn channels is familiar with this. The lawyers are circling and smelling blood.

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[kellin]

They've been blasting Camp Lejeune legal council commercials for at least six months now on the digital airwave channels. Sokolov Law.

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[will_die]

Saw a lot of the commercials for this but never knew that 'Impractical Jokers' was warporn.

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[sysrammer]

I think I heard about that. Something about them reconstituting the "Inglorious Basterds" detachment as the "Impractical Jokers". R. Lee Ermey had a segment on it.

So whats new?

[Deathlizard]

Only reason I'm asking is because you can't escape ads from various ambulance chasing law firms regarding Camp LeJeune and Parkinsons Disease settlements on Cable, Streaming, or Radio for almost a year now.

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[buzz_mccool]

> I worked at Camp Pendleton in the late 90's. ...
BTW, thank you dot com boom for rescuing me from an absolute dead-end nightmare job at that place!
The Marine Corps was looking for a few good men, actually as it turned out a few good "yes" men, and that turned out to be a real problem for me.

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[Joe_Dragon]

but did you order the code red

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[DamnOregonian]

You're goddamn right I did!

Damn you. Now I need to go watch it again.

disorder

[CarlStromes]

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