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DoorlessCarp🐭's avatar

If it's from the fungi you would expect acute toxicity, but an ALS diagnosis would be chronic and progressive.

Unless the cause is genetic there is ample study data pointing to autoimmune disregulation, and I suspect the breakdown products, metabolites from gyromytrin don't pass this test. But please correct me on this.

If this cluster of cases post dates 2020 I think we can highlight a very well known source of molecular mimicry.

Autoimmunity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Past and Present

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3150148/

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weedom1's avatar

The growing body of case reports of people with "auto immune diseases" obtaining permanent remissions by diet and lifestyle changes leads me to believe that the auto immune diagnosis is overdone, similar to that of ADHD and a numerous others.

What I noticed in those reports from the ALS cluster in France is that the patients had shared the characteristic of chronic exposure to the false morels. There are numerous homologs of gyromytrin, which vary in their molecular structures, lipophilicity and reactivity, and likely distribute and deposit themselves in the body to various degrees. This is a reason for belief that those little shrooms could be a significant factor in the development of the the neurological issues of the chronic users.

The extensive survey of the population in that area built a strong association between the patients shroom consumption habits and the incidence of the ALS diagnosis.

By the way, the ALS cluster predates 2019.

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DoorlessCarp🐭's avatar

Interesting thanks. Best keep away from eating these, it's a horrible prognosis.

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weedom1's avatar

Yaaa, and if this ALS had been popping up after 2019, instead of before, you know I’d be looking for different questions on the survey of those people. ;-)

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weedom1's avatar

I hear you. Takes all kinds to make a world.

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Copernicus's avatar

So why eat these toxic things? Seriously. Why would someone care to boil, cook, or otherwise detoxify these toxic things? It seems like quite a risk for very little reward, aside from the satisfaction of having done a risky thing and survived. Which, for some people, is a motivation.

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