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Before people start eating extreme low protein diets, that should be "Blocking a protein".
by jonhendry18 7y ago
Before people start eating extreme low protein diets, that should be "Blocking a protein".
- notadev 7y agoI would probably have been one of those people. Thank for you clarifying.
- thrower123 7y agoAlso, there is the whole "in mice" bit. One of the more valuable science twitter accounts to follow is the one that that just retweets every sensationally misleading pop-sci headline that ends up being based on rodent studies with an all-caps IN MICE! comment.
- pazimzadeh 7y agoTrendy, yes. Valuable, not sure. Maybe to keep track of the bleeding edge of basic research. This is much better news than the headline "Nothing we do seems to affect memory loss in mice." It means we're starting to understand how memory works at a molecular level in mammals.
- thrower123 7y agoRight, it's good that we have the very beginnings of an understanding of how the process might work. In mice. Applications to humans are, if previous track records are anything to go on, five to twenty years out and uncertain. Meanwhile, gullible people with poor reading comprehension will see the headline, or hear the badly interpreted third-hand reporting on the study during the science puff piece section of the nightly news. Some fraction of the hypochondriatic will take it up as gospel, and begin preaching it, and the sum total is a contribution to the mountain of medical misinformation that is floating around in the popular consciousness.
- dang 7y agoOk, we put an "a" and a "study" in the title above.
- newnewpdro 7y agoI agree the title was misleading. But wanted to mention that protein consumption and the associated IGF-1 hormone have been linked with increased cancer rates among other age-related ailments. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988204/