I know someone in their early 40s experiencing dementia-type symptoms (consistent with frontotemporal dementia). It is early but is quickly getting worse. It's heartbreaking to see how this is affecting his spouse and children. So far, they don't have a diagnosis. They are still running tests. It has to be quite frustrating not to be able to point to a root cause. So little can be known without direct access to the brain.
Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
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You get plenty of excitotoxins from eating MSG which may be causing diseases too. The amount of msg in commercial food has doubled the last decade apparently. So much we don’t know about the body and what we put in it.
Please source the MSG claim. Asians eat huge amounts of MSG and as far as i know there isn't any pandemic like mystery diseases floating around over there. Highly advanced surveillance systems in South Korea, Japan etc. would be more than able to pick up such things.
https://www.honeycolony.com/article/excitotoxins-fda-approve...
For some reason my edit immediately after making the post didn’t make it but I meant to include this with a statement “I have no idea about the veracity of this claim or website”.
I’m not looking to defending this with one hard but it could be right.
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#113Prion diseases terrify me. Especially having been in the UK eating beef at the time of the BSE outbreaks in the 1990s. I wonder if there have been studies on the scale of potential latent vCJD/Prion disease in the population?
I skimmed through it but my understanding is that this is not a prion outbreak. At least the relevant tests come back negative. Did I get it wrong?
It's not a known prion, like CJD. It could still possibly be an unknown prion. Or any number of other things.
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Prions terrify me as well because it seems like there's no stopping them.. > In 2015, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston found that plants can be a vector for prions. When researchers fed hamsters grass that grew on ground where a deer that died with chronic wasting disease (CWD) was buried, the hamsters became ill with CWD, suggesting that prions can bind to plants, which then ta…
>It is thus possible that there is a progressively accumulating number of prions in the environment I really need to grow my own food.
Make sure to keep the deer out!
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#115The forests of New Brunswick are routinely sprayed with large amounts of glyphosphate herbicide.
Is it possible that this is the cause, instead of prions?
[1] https://www.conservationcouncil.ca/where-our-forest-is-being...
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/liberals-greens...
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I don't think there were any reports online until December 31st.
I journal daily and like to capture the news among my daily record. The first time I found COVID/Coronavirus mentioned by BBC News was January 3rd 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50984025 . It is of course possible I missed a story but before January 3rd there was little to no mainstream news coverage. It is quite frustrating to find accurate articles now as many sites are falsely returned in date rang…
The BBC were definitely covering it in late December 2019 - I distinctly remember the TV coverage on New Years Eve.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I journal daily and like to capture the news among my daily record. The first time I found COVID/Coronavirus mentioned by BBC News was January 3rd 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50984025 . It is of course possible I missed a story but before January 3rd there was little to no mainstream news coverage. It is quite frustrating to find accurate articles now as many sites are falsely returned in date rang…
The BBC were definitely covering it in late December 2019 - I distinctly remember the TV coverage on New Years Eve.
If you have any links to articles or news reports I would be very grateful.
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Agree that cooking is not an option. You can actually get that 1000C down to 600C if you also soak the tissue in acid prior to burning.
That pretty much describes how I cook my steaks, a nice H2SO4 marinade followed by ten minutes in a bonfire
As long as you don't put ketchup on it.
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I would generally agree, except in wonder what the aquifers/groundwater looks like in that region and also the sea water along that coast (likely more of a biological source than an industrial one in that case, I think).
My bet is on either bacterial or agricultural source contaminating well water.
Why do you think that, and what do you mean by "agricultural source"?