HOW LEAD MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO PSYCHOPATHY

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Psychopath Podcast, a podcast that discusses everything
about psychopathy. Here's your host, doctor Carlos.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, folks, yesterday I did a show on my YouTube channel,
the Doctor Carlos Show, which you can catch on YouTube.
I guess that's redundant, but anyway, if you want, you
can catch it. I did a show with doctor Frank
von Hipple and he led me into an interesting path,
which was the correlation between LED L E A D
lead levels in early childhood and criminal behavior. It also

(01:01):
made me think a little bit about psychopathy. So I'll
be doing this brief podcast on lead levels and childhood
and psychopathy as well as in criminal behavior, which is
actually kind of interesting. But you can catch our podcast.
We talked a lot about the history of chemicals and
how the impacted individuals history and how impact their wars

(01:26):
and famine. But enough of that. Let me get back
to this, but definitely go catch our show on that.
I think you probably find it very interesting. So science
has subsequently linked to neurological effects of airborne LED pollution
to rising rates of delinquency, violent crime, and unwed pregnancy
associated with exposed children becoming adults. Again, this came out

(01:50):
of that conversation we were having yesterday, which was quite fascinating.
But lead also has been associated. This is called the
lead crime hypothesis, which is the pose link between elevated
blood levels and children and increased rates of crime, recidivism,
and delinquency later in life. Lead is widely understood to
be highly toxic to multiple organs of the body, particularly

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the brain. Individuals exposed to lead at young ages were
more vulnerable to decreased IQs ADHD and problems with impulse control.
And these last two are traits that we commonly see
in delinquents or criminal behavior, all of which, of course
from negative negatively effect decision making and leading to the
commission of more crimes. Because children or adults or adolescens
will make bad decisions, especially decisions like violent crimes, no

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safe level of lead in the human bloods FREME really exists,
given that anything I can contribute to a deleterious health issue.
Proponents of the lead crime hypothesis argue that the removal
of lead additives from motor fuel and the consequent decline
in children's lid exposure explains the fall in crime rates
in the US beginning of the nineteen nineties. This hypothesis
also offers an explanation of the earlier rise in crime

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in the preceding decades as the result of increased leads exposure.
Lead exposure throughout the mid twentieth century. The lead crime
hypothesis is not mutually exclusive with other explanations of the
drop in US crime rates, such as the legalized abortion
and crime effect. Lead exposure during the years in question
correlated with exposure to urban poverty due to closed residential
or primary school proximity, with high density motor vehicle traffic,

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burning leaded gasoline, or from residing an older, poorly maintained
housing stock, much which contained high levels of lead in
the form of lead paint or lead pipes, and unfortunately,
cities with a low taxation base often continued to receive
drinking water via these degraded lead pipes rather than upgrading
to modern infrastructure. So it's a really interesting hypothesis and

(03:47):
it's amazing how strong the correlations are. But what about psychopathy. Well,
another study in Cincinnati looked at the effects of post
nail blood lead concentrations in early childhoods seventy eight months
on adult psychopathy, and results reveal that higher blood LED
concentrations in early childhood are associated with higher levels of

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psychopathic symptoms in adulthood. Controlling for the effects of gender, race,
mother's IQ, children's intellectual achievement, of the quality of the
home environment, childhood LED levels, predictive variation, the Macavelian ecocentricity,
social potency, impulsive nonconformity, and blame externalization. Overall, these results
implicate lead's exposure in the ideology or the cause of psychopathy.

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So there you go. I get interested in conversation about
environmental talks and lead and the world of crime. Thanks
for listening, everybody,