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rimturseI saw a documentary just now about MS. I make sure to keep up to date on the lastest research and discoveries, so I didn't learn much new, but it was a compact, educational little program for the un-informed. More of those please.
So amiloride is being tested as a potential medication against MS. I knew that, but I've just looked it up aaaaand...it's on pill-form! Pill-form is goooood.
And people of viking descent are more likely to develop MS, because of our aggressive immune-systems (the aggressive immune system genes are found in 1 out of 4 Scandinavians, although just a few actually develop MS), also nothing new under the sun. My kind of immune-system is apparently terribly practical to have if you're fighting off the plague and other types of unpleasantness, so it's natural selection all over again. For some weird reason that is a comforting thought. I'm *evolved*.
Oh and the one new thing I learned? They're considering infecting MS-patients (and patients of other diseases cause by overly aggressive immune-systems) with worms. Whipworms to be more precise, because worms seem to dampen the immune-system *swallows*. I know it's illogical, but I find the thought of having MS a lot less distressing than the thought of regularly having to swallow worm eggs and have them hatch and grow in my gut.
So amiloride is being tested as a potential medication against MS. I knew that, but I've just looked it up aaaaand...it's on pill-form! Pill-form is goooood.
And people of viking descent are more likely to develop MS, because of our aggressive immune-systems (the aggressive immune system genes are found in 1 out of 4 Scandinavians, although just a few actually develop MS), also nothing new under the sun. My kind of immune-system is apparently terribly practical to have if you're fighting off the plague and other types of unpleasantness, so it's natural selection all over again. For some weird reason that is a comforting thought. I'm *evolved*.
Oh and the one new thing I learned? They're considering infecting MS-patients (and patients of other diseases cause by overly aggressive immune-systems) with worms. Whipworms to be more precise, because worms seem to dampen the immune-system *swallows*. I know it's illogical, but I find the thought of having MS a lot less distressing than the thought of regularly having to swallow worm eggs and have them hatch and grow in my gut.
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Date: 2007-11-29 11:47 pm (UTC)Would it not be better to find out why worms surpress the immune system and then find some nice chemical, that doesn't wiggle and do other unpleasant things, to do the same job? Beats for all idiots with stupid fixes.
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Date: 2007-11-30 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-30 01:52 am (UTC)I don't think it's illogical. I mean, there are reasons why we don't want to have parasites in us. . .
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