Posted on 09/14/2017 5:55:32 AM PDT by Enlightened1
About a third of the world’s population is chronically infected with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggest that about 11% of the U.S. population aged 6 years and over is infected with the parasite, while in other countries the infection rate has been shown to be up to 95%.
Researchers from 16 institutions across the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, and Australia have now analyzed genetic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data from infected individuals, and from studies in cell cultures, to link T. gondii infection with a number of brain disorders, including epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and even some cancers. "This study is a paradigm shifter," stated co-author Dennis Steindler, Ph.D., director of the Neuroscience and Aging Lab at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. "We now have to insert infectious disease into the equation of neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, and neural cancers. At the same time, we have to translate aspects of this study into preventive treatments that include everything from drugs to diet to lifestyle, in order to delay disease onset and progression."
Most people with a healthy immune system will develop no symptoms from infection with T. gondii. Individuals with compromised immune systems, however, are at risk from potentially far more serious complications of the infection that can affect the eyes, brain, and other organs. A pregnant mother who becomes infected can also pass the parasite to her unborn child, with severe, potentially fatal consequences.
Prior research has indicated that T. gondii infection in rodents and in primates can cause subtle behavior changes, including loss of the animals’ aversion to the smell of the urine of their natural predators. Some epidemiological studies in humans have linked T. gondii infection with neurological...
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Well that sucks !
I been telling people for years that in the future they will have associated almost all auto-immune diseases and cancers with microorganisms. I’m not a doctor. No one listens. Not that it makes a difference.
I think some researchers and experts have also known this, but no one in the scientific field goes on record without research and corroboration... as well as the fact that people tend to give hypotheses like this (paradigm shifting) close to the vest for their own gain.
bkmk
Yet again we learn that cats are evil creatures of darkness - they carry this parasite.
While it’s not mentioned in the article T. Gondi is the parasite associated with cats, I think.
Do you think that frequent and extreme weather events in the future will change the minds of even the most intractable global warming deniers?
With crap like that how are you supposed to take anything else on their site seriously?
In other words, "Do you think future bad weather will make your imaginary negative stereotypes of other people more like you?"
Crazy cat ladies and assorted other Democrats explained. It’s pathological. We all knew it.
For later.
So is there an easy test for it and an easy cure?
Wow! This is interesting and explains a lot. Thanks for posting.
We have and had several friends/relatives with Parkinson’s and alzheimer’s. Zero of these patients have had any signs of impaired immune systems before their diagnosis were made.
They have ended up in PT programs for patients with Parkinson’s, take their meds, eat healthy Paleo diets and continue fish, kayak, run, walk or whatever they did before they were diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Many have added weight lifting to their exercise/PT programs.
Hopefully, this is not a scam to get funding as funding is going to get tighter.
Go confess yer sins at the DMV, and make a check out to Algae.
My parents both had / have Alzheimer’s. They never had a cat.
I’ve always had a cat but never tested positive for toxoplasmosis (they test you when youre pregnant).
All this research is very interesting but no one seems to nail a cause.
Bkmrk.
There is a test.
http://www.healthline.com/health/toxoplasma-test#overview1
FWIW, I think it’s worth researching. Even if the parasite isn’t responsible for most cases. We’ve had three cases of dementia in the family. One Alzheimers, one vascular, one undetermined. One of the family members afflicted is a recovering crazy cat guy. We’ll be discussing the parasite with his doc at his checkup in a couple of weeks.
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