As a teenager, EenVandaag Radio reporter Laura Kors peeled tulip bulbs in West Frisia, summer after summer. When she meets Parkinson’s patient Ger Geurts during a radio broadcast, who probably owes her illness to exposure to agricultural poisons, Laura’s alarm bell goes off. Could she now have Parkinson’s disease too? And what about her, her family, her friends and her fellow villagers? In the new podcast AVROTROS and NPO Radio 1 Will I have Parkinson’s? Laura tries to get an answer to this question, among other things.
Leading neurologist Bas Bloem of Radboud University Nijmegen says he cannot take away Laura’s concerns. This is the beginning of research into the risks of pesticide exposure. Is there a way to know for sure that you are getting Parkinson’s disease? Or is it some kind of lottery, one you don’t want to win?
Laura looks at what is known about the link between Parkinson’s and pesticides. Why aren’t they completely banned? And what if you really get Parkinson’s disease?
The 5-part podcast series Will I Have Parkinson’s? is not only the story of Laura’s personal research into the risks, but also tells the experiences of people who deal with the disease on a daily basis and the sometimes profound effects of the treatment they choose. Laura travels to the region where she was born and raised. She there she also speaks to farmers who regularly get the middle finger from passersby when they sit on their sprayers. What do they think about the health risks of their pesticide use? And last but not least, what was actually on the light bulbs when Laura herself worked there as a teenager?
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