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Ancient disease has potential to regenerate livers, study finds (Leprosy infection benefits livers)
Medical Xpress / University of Edinburgh / Cell Reports Medicine ^ | Nov. 15, 2022 | Anura Rambukkana et al

Posted on 11/15/2022 3:27:54 PM PST by ConservativeMind

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This appears to be your garden-variety leprosy, which is in most armadillos.

Don’t touch anyone for about 20 years, and you will still need six months to a year of antibiotics to cure the infection, but at least you have an enhanced, even over-sized enhanced, younger liver, this study would appear to show.

Pretty extreme potential fix, but easy to try…

No, please don’t do it.

1 posted on 11/15/2022 3:27:54 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 11/15/2022 3:28:31 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Please don’t inform Anthony Fauci. Please!


3 posted on 11/15/2022 3:29:46 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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4 posted on 11/15/2022 3:31:30 PM PST by packagingguy
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The liver regenerates itself if you don’t poison it too bad.


5 posted on 11/15/2022 3:31:38 PM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: ConservativeMind

I never expected to read this.


6 posted on 11/15/2022 3:37:49 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: ConservativeMind

OK lets all go get leprosy. 😮


7 posted on 11/15/2022 3:39:43 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ConservativeMind

I’ll take Milk Thistle, eat healthy, exercise, and no “Grandpa’s cough medicine “…


8 posted on 11/15/2022 3:41:56 PM PST by EEGator
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I picked up an armadillo while intoxicated.

I figured the leprosy and booze canceled each other out.


9 posted on 11/15/2022 3:43:21 PM PST by EEGator
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To: ConservativeMind

Well, induced botulism is used to treat certain nervoe-muscle disorders. Nature can be amazing.


10 posted on 11/15/2022 3:43:47 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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So, the UN or some such organization raised alarms over the prospect of the 8th billion human being born today. They claim (Bill Gates, et al) that the world is over populated. They sponsor a vaccine that kill people to depopulate the world.

And, these other idiots want to enhance human livers to extend lives.

Or, am I seeing this through jaundiced eyes?

11 posted on 11/15/2022 3:44:30 PM PST by Parmy
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Gee, I wonder why livers might need regenerating...🤔

Anyway, an interesting paper...

Kynurenines in the Pathogenesis of Peripheral Neuropathy During Leprosy and COVID-19

12 posted on 11/15/2022 3:48:25 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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“Ancient disease has potential to regenerate livers, study finds (Leprosy infection benefits livers)”

Unfortunately, leprosy rots out the rest of your body.


13 posted on 11/15/2022 3:49:17 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Livers regenerate on their own. One big problem is when damaged and dead and sclerosed liver cells block regenerating cells from proliferating to their normal anatomical position.. Gotta get the scar tissue to dissolve.

This finding may explain why extra tissue growths (nodules) occur on the bodies of untreated lepers.


14 posted on 11/15/2022 3:57:52 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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There is a genetic disease that causes overproduction in the liver of, Alpha-1 proteinase. Alpha-1 causes irreparible lung damage. Basically, the enzyme is like scrubbing bubbles that never stop scrubbing and so tears the lungs up. There is no cure for this ‘genetic COPD’ although there is a somewhat controversial treatment, prolastin, that costs thousands of dollars through “speciality pharmacies” that requires weekly infusions. It would certainly be an astounding breakthrough if an off switch could be more cheaply produced from lab-rat ‘rejuvinated’ livers that could actually cure this genetic anomoly and eliminate the cost and need for weekly transfusions.


15 posted on 11/15/2022 4:07:04 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Bonemaker; ConservativeMind
Unfortunately, leprosy rots out the rest of your body.

In most cases leprosy is easily cured or at worst controlled with common anti-biotics.

One problem with this treatment maybe that the number of people susceptible to leprosy is rather small outside of the Middle East

If you can’t be infected how can the bacteria do their work to grow your liver.

16 posted on 11/15/2022 4:13:08 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritIq)
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To: ConservativeMind

My liver is great. Unfortunately I’m missing and ear and a nose.


17 posted on 11/15/2022 4:45:21 PM PST by Revel
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I picked up an armadillo while intoxicated.

I figured the leprosy and booze canceled each other out.

Yay! Gotta liver little!

18 posted on 11/15/2022 5:03:20 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man. )
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This was in 2002, so I’m all good.

Apparently, the little ones are blind?
Walked right up to my golf cart...


19 posted on 11/15/2022 5:05:04 PM PST by EEGator
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Apparently, the little ones are blind?
Walked right up to my golf cart...

A classic!

😊

20 posted on 11/15/2022 5:18:42 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man. )
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