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Posted on 06/14/2016 12:22:06 AM PDT by blueplum
The organism Toxoplasma gondii can harm people with weak immune systems, UCR research finds.
There’s a good chance you have a parasite living in your brain.
A UC Riverside scientist has just made a significant discovery on how it operates, when it becomes a problem and how the damage it causes might be controlled.
Emma Wilson is a professor of biomedical science with UCR’s School of Medicine. She has been studying Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite found in all mammals, for 15 years and just published a research paper in the online journal PLOS Pathogens, connecting the single-celled organism to brain dysfunction. [snip] Wilson’s study of infected mice showed that the parasite could create conditions in the brain that may be linked to such diseases as epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia.
She found that when Toxoplasma is present, the brain can release too much....
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provides a possible hypothesis for irrational msm coverage of trump.
:-)
A rational explanation for what I observe on a daily basis with women that collect felines.
Very interesting discovery. Hope they have great success with this treatment. It would also be a good reason to limit exposure to cats. My wife is allergic to them. Makes you wonder why it is the only animal that the parasite can sexually reproduce in.
bttt
We have 3 cats and my wife, who is giving birth on Friday, went a full 9 months without picking them up or petting them once.
“So our baby won’t be ‘tarded”, she said.
I did not question. I just do as I am told, especially during this delicate time.
smile
Would this have any effect on the Alien implant in my brain.
Who cleaned the cat box?
Wonder if it may also be related to Alzheimers?
For the last 9 months the cats have been outside cats. They poop, but I am pretty sure my dogs eat the poop, because to a dog, cat poop is jam packed with yummy goodness.
it might, reed13k
glutamate is suspect in Alzheimers, and according to the article, an excess of glutamate short-circuits neuron synapses. I don’t know how expensive ceftriaxone is, but I wish I’d known about this when Pops was first diagnosed - I’d have tried it.
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