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From the article: "Despite patients showing no trace of any known prion diseases, it hasn't been completely ruled out as a cause, he says. Another theory is c
by r721 6y ago
From the article:
"Despite patients showing no trace of any known prion diseases, it hasn't been completely ruled out as a cause, he says.
Another theory is chronic exposure to what's called an "excitotoxin" like domoic acid, which was linked to a 1987 food poisoning incident from mussels contaminated with the toxin from the nearby province of Prince Edward Island.
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Dr Cashman says they are also looking at another toxin - beta-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) - which has been implicated as an environmental risk in the development of diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
BMAA is produced by cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae."
- dmix 6y agoYou 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.
- GordonS 6y agoI hadn't heard this claim about MSG before. I did a quick search on Google, but didn't find anything that looked remotely reputable. I did a quick search on Google Scholar, and everything seemed to be refuting the claim. Do you have any sources you can share?
- arpa 6y agoYeah, the grandparent is talking out of their rear-end. MSG is well researched and relatively safe. There have been numerous studies refuting the existence of "Chinese restaurant syndrome" and/or attributing the symptoms to allergy to MSG. "Syndrome" was originally a self-reported case study and none subsequent studies with n>10 have been able to replicate the case.
- M2Ys4U 6y agoThe original MSG/CRS "paper" was a hoax. Hell, it wasn't even a paper. It was more along the lines of a letter to the editor, IIRC. But a mixture of sinophobia and alt-med woo spread it far and wide.
- dmix 6y agoApologies for posting this I wish I could delete it
- kossTKR 6y agoPlease 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.
- dmix 6y agohttps://www.honeycolony.com/article/excitotoxins-fda-approved-damage-brain/ 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.
- shawnz 6y agoDo you mean to say MSG itself is an excitotoxin? It doesn't make sense to say there are excitotoxins in it. It's just a single compound.