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Re: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

tcoff91 wrote: post #107
geomark wrote: post #101

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Is it a regional thing? Because I grew up in Southern California and lived there many years. Also lived in Arizona and northern California for a few years. Always shoes in the house everywhere I went and everyone I knew.

I definitely think it's regional. I think that it's more common in very dry climates like california/arizona. I mean honestly, my shoes are almost never visibly dirty when entering the house. It's not like there's mud everywhere in southern california. I wear shoes in the house all the time and my carpet looks fine. Until covid-19 I never thought twice about it.

I think you're right about the regional thing, although when you think about it wearing the shoes in the house is a pretty weird thing to do. Probably also not good for foot/ankle development given all the support most shoes give you.

Re: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

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Post by carlmr »

_s6ue wrote: post #98
geomark wrote: post #96

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Yeah, shaming is counterproductive. But I have to disagree with one of your points: changing social norms. Changing social norms can be have huge benefits. Very timely example is that social norms are likely a major reason so many Asian countries have much lower Covid-19 infection rates than western countries. If only Americans could get over themselves and stop shaking hands and wearing their shoes in the house. I s…

... Americans wear their shoes in the house? I'm a (non-white) American and this is news to me. Whenever someone comes to my house, or I go to someone else's house, people leave their shoes at the door. I thought this was something that pretty much everyone from every part of the world did.

A lot of Europeans, too. Usually when I have a lot of guests I'll tell them they can leave the shoes on. I'll just wash the carpets afterwards and clean the house anyway.

If it's only a few friends I usually ask them to take their shoes off.

But I know many people who always wear shoes inside. I think it's also due to the cold. In Northern Europe you don't want to walk around barefoot, so keeping on the shoes is comfortable.

Re: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

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Post by pixelpoet »

x3n0ph3n3 wrote: post #109
pixelpoet wrote: post #102

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I'm not sure if anecdotes are allowed or welcomed, hope this is okay: Around 2003 I learnt about lysine having something to do with preventing HSV-1, so I got some and took some large doses until the bottle was finished. Haven't had a cold sore since, and I was getting them ~yearly before. Sometimes I can feel the tingling and think shiiit, here it comes again finally, but I never really had a proper breakout. Also,…

> Sometimes I can feel the tingling That's the viral shedding.

Correct. In case it was unclear, I didn't mean to imply that I'm "cured", only that I've never had an outbreak since then.

Re: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

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Post by petargyurov »

mylons wrote: post #5
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #4

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It means you’re not getting enough lysine at those times.

Source on info? Can you supplement with lysine?

Here is a nice round up of the known evidence: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419779/

TLDR: "Longer duration controlled studies of daily lysine doses exceeding 1.2 g/d are required to definitively test its role in herpes simplex prophylaxis"

EDIT: After reading through the provided table, to me it seems that most studies show little to no evidence that Lysine doses help against the virus. It looks like it's mostly placebo. (Disclaimer, I am not a virologist, this is my take on the paper.)

Re: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

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Post by jeremyspurz »

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Re: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

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Post by DocG »

velosol wrote: post #44
DocG wrote: post #18

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There is correlation between zoster vaccine and herpes simplex. This has correlation to lesser the outbreaks or make them stop altogether. I can attest to that. This is what some specialist doctors recommend for patient with bad herpes outbreaks. I guess this would be already good starting point. Example source (pdf): https://proceedings.med.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/...

Have you intentionally exposed yourself to your previous triggers (assuming you had them)? How long has it been since you had the zoster vaccine? Were you of an on-label age for the zoster vaccine at receipt or was it off-label usage? Put another way did you receive Varivax or Zostavax dosing and were you in the on-label group (1-50 for Varivax and 50+ for Zostavax)? The data isn't great but there's a fair bit of ane…

I've had outbreaks but they were way less severe after that.

I'm under 30. This recommendation came from doctor who specializes in herpes. She did warn me it might not work, but she has seen overall good results -outbreaks are less severe, rarer, or dissapear altogether.

I think it's been around five years.

There was a paper also on that, but couldn't find.

Re: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

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Post by igravious »

Swannie wrote: post #88
igravious wrote: post #76

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Came here to say this. Didn't that connection sweep through here a while back? I just checked. Turns out the herpes connection has been made before too: (1) Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication (2 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094 (2) Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s (2 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265115 (3) Resear…

From my skimming of the OP, which references some of this research, I think these prior findings demonstrated strong correlation, but this is the first study that demonstrates some causal relationship.

Sweet, thanks – haven't had time to even skim yet!

Re: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

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Post by a_imho »

_s6ue wrote: post #98
geomark wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, shaming is counterproductive. But I have to disagree with one of your points: changing social norms. Changing social norms can be have huge benefits. Very timely example is that social norms are likely a major reason so many Asian countries have much lower Covid-19 infection rates than western countries. If only Americans could get over themselves and stop shaking hands and wearing their shoes in the house. I s…

... Americans wear their shoes in the house? I'm a (non-white) American and this is news to me. Whenever someone comes to my house, or I go to someone else's house, people leave their shoes at the door. I thought this was something that pretty much everyone from every part of the world did.

It is seen in American movies all the time, people jumping on the sofa/bed with their shoes on.

Re: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

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Post by lm28469 »

benibela wrote: post #70
hombre_fatal wrote: post #55

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What's your gameplan for the rest of your life? You're never going to kiss anyone or share a cup or a smoke or any of the thousands of ways that have infected the vast majority of humanity? You can even get it passing through your mom's birth canal. Your two examples of transmission are so specific that I'm not sure you know how it spreads. Just extended family members kissing or sharing cups with your kids? What? He…

>You're never going to kiss anyone or share a cup or a smoke or any of the thousands of ways that have infected the vast majority of humanity? Sounds reasonable I am 30 and have never kissed anyone, and no plans to change that soon. Although I had some shared cups. I probably should get tested. But there is a good change I have avoided all herpes, even EBV. I hope they can find a vaccine soon.

I mean, yeah, I guess if we avoid all physical contacts during our entire life until the world pop drops to 0 we could get rid of herpes. /s
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