WHAT is A PRION?? and, HOW DOES IT AFFECT ME??
WANT THE BOTTOM LINE??
Why not!!!! - Well, here it is. (I always read the last chapter first - so the facts that follow can only be summarized in this way - and don't say I didn't say that it was not important!!) This topic is so vital, that it affects us all - anyone who really understands what a prion is - how hard they are to destroy - how they are now in our environment - and, hence our food chain..... will PROBABLY BECAME A VEGAN!!!
"Prions are simply proteins, not living organisms, and they can survive almost anything, even hundreds of degrees of heat. Placing infected tissue in a landfill simply removes it, but scientists worry that the prions can leach through soil and groundwater, and spread.
Incineration is possible, but it isn't as easy as burning the carcass in a fire. Temperatures of more than 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit — sometimes up to 1,800 degrees — are required to effectively neutralize prions. Unlike most bacteria, regular cooking won't help at all."
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Now, some of the details:
Why not!!!! - Well, here it is. (I always read the last chapter first - so the facts that follow can only be summarized in this way - and don't say I didn't say that it was not important!!) This topic is so vital, that it affects us all - anyone who really understands what a prion is - how hard they are to destroy - how they are now in our environment - and, hence our food chain..... will PROBABLY BECAME A VEGAN!!!
"Prions are simply proteins, not living organisms, and they can survive almost anything, even hundreds of degrees of heat. Placing infected tissue in a landfill simply removes it, but scientists worry that the prions can leach through soil and groundwater, and spread.
Incineration is possible, but it isn't as easy as burning the carcass in a fire. Temperatures of more than 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit — sometimes up to 1,800 degrees — are required to effectively neutralize prions. Unlike most bacteria, regular cooking won't help at all."
FROM:
How deadly prions are destroyed - TODAY Health - TODAY.com
Now, some of the details:
PRION
A prion in the Scrapie form (PrPSc)
i/ is an infectious agent composed of
protein in a misfolded form. (prion – Google).
Another definition: Prion: A small proteinaceous infectious disease-causing agent that is
believed to be the smallest infectious particle. A prion is neither bacterial
nor fungal nor viral and contains no genetic material. Prions have been held
responsible for a number of degenerative brain diseases, including mad cow
disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, kuru, and an
unusual form of hereditary dementia known as Gertsmann-Straeussler-Scheinker
disease. (Med. dict.)
Prions were discovered when
investigating why cannibals died sooner……….
The bottom line , for me, was to
discover that anyone who REALLY understands prions, often becomes a VEGAN – and
wonders why they did not do it sooner!! (if
not a vegan, a vegetarian, Or, if eating meat – to choose from the old classic
of ‘clean meat’).’
Symptoms and pathology of mad cow disease
Mad cow disease is a fatal condition affecting the nervous
system of cattle. In an affected animal, the brain develops tiny holes. The
animal loses control over its movements and its behaviour changes – so it seems
mad.
The tiny holes in the brain are areas where brain cells have
degenerated or died. Because of all these holes, the brain of an animal with
mad cow disease looks like a sponge – hence the clinical name of the disease,
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
The first diagnosis was in 1986
It is very similar to scrapie, a well-known disease in sheep
that has been recorded for more than 200 years. Scrapie is also a spongiform encephalopathy
and is always fatal.
Why did mad cow disease suddenly appear?
Mad cow disease started in Britain after cattle were fed
meat-and-bone meal, a protein supplement made from offal from cattle and sheep.
This practice had been going on for some time before BSE appeared, but in the
early 1980s the way in which offal was processed changed – the high
temperatures and the quantities of chemical solvents used to sterilise the
material were reduced slightly. This may have allowed the disease agent, which
is very resistant to all forms of sterilisation, to survive.
Kuru – a human disease with similar
symptoms and a similar cause
In 1957, D. Carleton Gajdusek (United States National
Institutes of Health) and Vincent Zigas (Australian Public Health Service)
described a strange disease among the Fore highlanders of Papua New Guinea.
Victims of the condition showed a gradual loss of coordination, which
progressed to complete motor incapacity and death. The course of the disease
lasted 12 months on average and was always fatal. It affected all ages and both
sexes, but it was most common in adult women.
Related site: Press release: The 1976 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine
Summarises the research of Baruch Blumberg and Carleton Gajdusek
that won the Nobel prize. (Nobelprize.org, Sweden)
Smart scientific detective work showed that the disease,
called kuru, was caused by something that was passed on during ritual
endocannibalism, when the brains of recently deceased people were eaten. This
work involved inoculating chimpanzees with material from the brains of people
who had died of kuru and was carried out by Caleton Gajdusek and his colleagues
Joseph Gibbs and Michael Alpers. In 1976, Dr Gajdusek was awarded a Nobel prize
for his work on kuru. Solving the puzzle of kuru also required detailed
knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease and the mortuary practices and
social behaviour of the Fore people.
Kuru began to disappear from Papua New Guinea after
cannibalism was outlawed. However, it has not yet gone altogether: Remarkably,
a few cases are still occurring in the early 2000s with incubation periods of
up to 50 years. (ref: - Google..)
There is much more information on the
net -
just look up ‘prion’’
There are some good books on the
topic: e.g.:
“The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow,
Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases”, go to:
And, many many more…….
While you are at Amazon, look at the
list of books…….. (Also, type
any topic into the search bar – they have some really cool stuff………..)
In terms of helping our bodies, please look at:
GOJI: - really good - http://mhlnk.com/393C96C9 and
RESVERATROL:
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(these really help!!)
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that info link again:
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
You may have noticed that I have not asked you for your email......
I do not send pesty repeat emails to try & get you to buy........
(I personally find them annoying - and I don't do it to you.........)
In return, may I ask a favor??
If you would care to reconsider the information above, and purchase something - it would make us both happy!!
enjoy...................
that info link again:
http://4-my-best-life.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/making-choices.html
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