Beate Ritz's guest appearances

Beate Ritz

The Aware Show

KOPN Food Sleuth

Food Sleuth Radio

Air Health Our Health

Karuna Jaggar

Dana Gunders

Bettina Elias Siegel

Andrew Smith

David Thomas

Rebecca Scritchfield

Maya Shetreat

Brad Lancaster

Melanie Joy

Robert Lustig

Stephen Ritz

Will Harris

Chris Smith

Dave Chapman

Gail Hansen

OwlTail

 Can pesticides cause diseases such as Parkinson’s? Today’s guest is Dr. Beate Ritz who will help answer this question during today’s interview.  Dr. Ritz has been investigating the connection between exposure to pesticides and the incidence of Parkinson’s disease for more than 15 years. She Professor and Vice Chair of the Epidemiology Department and holds co-appointments in the Environmental Health department at the UCLA School of Public Health and in Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine; she is a member of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), the Southern California Environmental Health Science Center (SCEHSC) and co-directs the NIEHS-funded UCLA Center for Gene-Environment Studies of Parkinson’s disease.  She has spent the past 15 years investigating the long-term effects of pesticide exposures on Parkinson’s disease and cancers and is currently conducting a project to implement a Parkinson’s disease registry required by a new law in California. Her research focuses on the health effects of occupational and environmental toxins such as pesticides, ionizing radiation, and air pollution on chronic diseases including neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders (Parkinson's disease, autism cognition), cancers, and adverse birth outcomes and asthma. She previously investigated the causes of cancer in chemical toxin and radiation exposed workers and assessed the impact of ergonomic work-place factors on musculo-skeletal disorders. For more than two decades, she studied the effects of air pollution on adverse birth outcomes as well as asthma, autism, and cancers in children in Southern California.

Can pesticides cause diseases such as Parkinson’s? Today’s guest is Dr. Beate Ritz who will help answer this question during today’s interview.  Dr. Ritz has been investigating the connection between exposure to pesticides and the incidence of Parkinson’s disease for more than 15 years. She Professor and Vice Chair of the Epidemiology Department and holds co-appointments in the Environmental Health department at the UCLA School of Public Health and in Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine; she is a member of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), the Southern California Environmental Health Science Center (SCEHSC) and co-directs the NIEHS-funded UCLA Center for Gene-Environment Studies of Parkinson’s disease.  She has spent the past 15 years investigating the long-term effects of pesticide exposures on Parkinson’s disease and cancers and is currently conducting a project to implement a Parkinson’s disease registry required by a new law in California. Her research focuses on the health effects of occupational and environmental toxins such as pesticides, ionizing radiation, and air pollution on chronic diseases including neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders (Parkinson's disease, autism cognition), cancers, and adverse birth outcomes and asthma. She previously investigated the causes of cancer in chemical toxin and radiation exposed workers and assessed the impact of ergonomic work-place factors on musculo-skeletal disorders. For more than two decades, she studied the effects of air pollution on adverse birth outcomes as well as asthma, autism, and cancers in children in Southern California.

Best of The Aware Show with Dr Beate Ritz: Can Pesticides Cause Parkinson’s Disease? 

Dr. Beate Ritz, MD, PhD became interested in air pollution and its effects on pregnancy when she was pregnant herself. She has a wide-ranging career, but over the last several decades has helped us understand more about the impacts of every day transportation-related air pollution on pregnant women and their children. Listen and learn! As always, for links to the studies, please be sure to visit the website. Professor Ritz also contributed to this video for a summary of pollution effects on newborns. What can you do? 1- Be considerate about flying. Save money and air quality! Can you schedule that business meeting over video conferencing? Can you take a local vacation? Save up your flights for the truly important trips, like those to visit family or particularly extraordinary or important experiences. 2- Ask your community and local airport to be thoughtful about the total burden of air pollution being brought in. Consider actions like zero or low emissions airport shuttles and transportation, increased public transportation service to the airport, etc, to offset the burden of jet fuel in the area while we hope for future, cleaner air travel. 3- Donate to those working for healthier air and to keep a public health lens on the transportation sector. Consider a donation to the Air Health Our Health fundraiser for the ALA- link here! 4- Spread the word about health air by being a billboard! Check out the Air Health Our Health shop for options. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit blog post for more information, or go to airhealthourhealth.org. Follow and comment on Facebook page and Instagram. Record a question or comment on the Anchor podcast site or send an e-mail via the website.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/airhealthourhealth/message

<a href="https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/ritz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Beate Ritz, MD, PhD</a> became interested in air pollution and its effects on pregnancy when she was pregnant herself. She has a wide-ranging career, but over the last several decades has helped us understand more about the impacts of every day transportation-related air pollution on pregnant women and their children. Listen and learn! As always, for links to the studies, please be sure to visit the website. Professor Ritz also contributed to this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNyOd_BZRAE&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a> for a summary of pollution effects on newborns. What can you do? 1- Be considerate about flying. Save money and air quality! Can you schedule that business meeting over video conferencing? Can you take a local vacation? Save up your flights for the truly important trips, like those to visit family or particularly extraordinary or important experiences. 2- Ask your community and local airport to be thoughtful about the total burden of air pollution being brought in. Consider actions like zero or low emissions airport shuttles and transportation, increased public transportation service to the airport, etc, to offset the burden of jet fuel in the area while we hope for future, cleaner air travel. 3- Donate to those working for healthier air and to keep a public health lens on the transportation sector. Consider a donation to the Air Health Our Health fundraiser for the ALA- <a href="https://action.lung.org/site/TR;jsessionid=00000000.app326a?pg=fund&amp;fr_id=1080&amp;pxfid=159908&amp;NONCE_TOKEN=7BF633101406B7A4D56CD0B5C72BA187" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link here</a>! 4- Spread the word about health air by being a <a href="https://airhealthourhealth.org/stuff/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">billboard</a>! Check out the Air Health Our Health <a href="https://shop.spreadshirt.com/AirHealthOurHealth/fire+is+bad+for+lungs-A5f2ed4cf2051767a2a94f710?productType=347&amp;sellable=dYpkBB2dRRtZdDD87kLw-347-8&amp;appearance=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">shop</a> for options. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit <a href="https://airhealthourhealth.org/pregnancyplanes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog post </a>for more information, or go to <a href="https://airhealthourhealth.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">airhealthourhealth.org</a>. Follow and comment on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AirHealthOurHealth/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/airhealthourhealth/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. Record a question or comment on the <a href="https://anchor.fm/airhealthourhealth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anchor podcast site</a> or send an e-mail via the <a href="https://airhealthourhealth.org/get-in-touch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a>.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/airhealthourhealth/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/airhealthourhealth/message</a>

Pregnancy, Planes & Pollution with Dr. Beate Ritz

Guest Beate Ritz, M.D., Ph.D., reports on her research showing how common pesticide exposure increases risk for Parkinson\'s DiseasePAN North America

Guest Beate Ritz, M.D., Ph.D., reports on her research showing how common pesticide exposure increases risk for Parkinson\'s Disease <a href="http://www.panna.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PAN North America</a>

Beate Ritz Interview