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if i don’t eat collagen because i’m afraid of prions is that overkil?
by foolfoolz 3y ago
if i don’t eat collagen because i’m afraid of prions is that overkil?
- candiddevmike 3y agoBest not to walk barefoot outside or touch something barehanded either. You'd also need to sterilize everything you eat and drink.
- mromanuk 3y agoWe need to use a bubble, right?
- akiselev 3y agoYou’ll need to sterilize everything with a 50% solution of bleach. Not by spraying it like a domestic cleaning agent, mind you, but by submersing or covering it for five minutes. That should be enough to denature prions on the surfaces of everyday objects - but not tissue like food!
- kevviiinn 3y agoTime to boil food in bleach?
- deegles 3y agoJust buy glycine, it's cheaper and has the same effect. Up to 20g/day is safe.
- clumsysmurf 3y agoDo you have a link for the 20g/safe claim?
- LinuxBender 3y agoExamine.com has some data on this. [1] No toxicity with glycine supplementation has been observed with doses up to 0.8 g/kg body weight (64 grams per day for a 176 lb adult) [1] - https://examine.com/supplements/glycine/research/#KQek8l9-background-information-1 https://examine.com/supplements/glycine/research/#KQek8l9-ba...
- jcims 3y agoThis seems like one of those things that I don't want to google.
- el_benhameen 3y agoFrom someone who’s been down the rabbit hole: don’t.
- 7speter 3y agoI imagine you’d okay if you ate gelatin (whether in stock, or jello are the knox stuff added to whatever)?
- slashdev 3y agoStatistically, yes. There’s thousands of risks you don’t even consider that are more dangerous. So probably not rational to worry about collagen. There is no definite proof that gelatin can contain infectious prions, as long as it is manufactured according to industry standards. It’s theoretically possible. But your odds of getting struck by lightning are far higher in any given year. I wouldn’t worry about it.
- tandr 3y agoGreat comment, but... Now they will be afraid to go outside. ;)
- clumsysmurf 3y agoIf this concerns you, look into hydrolyzed collagen (aka collagen peptides). I assume since they are broken down its a bit different, but can't back up my assumption.
- nemo44x 3y agoA friend of mine got infected with prions. Well, it’s what the doctors believe since all other tests came up negative. They aren’t 100% sure but have documented it as that. It’s amazing how quickly he degenerated. He was feeling weird physically and mentally and went to a doctor. Within a few months he was a different person but could recognize friends. He needed assistance for living. Within a year he was completely mentally gone. Just a different person with no means of communicating or doing anything for himself. Just completely sad.
- bread90 3y agoHow’d he get it you think?
- radicaldreamer 3y agoHere's a case where they're pretty sure it was all the vitamins and supplements in collagen capsules that the patient consumed for years https://n.neurology.org/content/98/18_Supplement/3654 https://n.neurology.org/content/98/18_Supplement/3654
- nemo44x 3y agoNo one has any idea. He wasn’t exposed to anything that would be high risk for it, if that’s even a thing. As another person commented here, it sounds like it’s spontaneous in many cases. Or at least that’s our best answer.
- Auracle 3y agoYou can spontaneously misfold a protein yourself. After a quick look on Wikipedia for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: "An EU study determined that "87% of cases were sporadic, 8% genetic, 5% iatrogenic and less than 1% variant."[22]"
- m3kw9 3y agoEating steak can also get you that