TOXIN FOUND IN SEAFOOD AND BLUE-GREEN ALGAE MAY CAUSE ALZHEIMER'S - The same algae can kill pets minutes after contact with its BMAA neurotoxin. - READ about studies showing how Alzheimers can be contagious, its link with Mad Cow Disease, and how anesthesia contributes to senility

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Blue green algae growing on rocks in Cornwall ocean waters.

The following article mentions age as the top cause of Alzheimer's disease, and adds better diagnostics as a factor in its statistical increase.  But age causes SENILITY, not Alzherimer's.  Senility used to be the normal result of aging:   a little loss of memory and a bit of silliness was part of getting old.

 

Alzheimers, however, is a disease that can affect people in their forties.   

 

Also, the article on blue-green algae toxins causing Alzheimer's does not mention meat consumption as a major risk in acquiring this disease. 

 

The meat industry has succeeded in silencing the fact that cattle that may be contaminated with Mad Cow Disease can end up at slaughterhouses as long as it does not show symptoms.  It's only animals who are basically collapsing that are taking off the meat processing plant, and not at every site.

 

Due to the high costs of monitoring the health of the millions of animals arriving at meat processing plants, shortcuts must be implemented.  And so the public may end up eating contaminated beef.

 

Further on this page please see outline and web link to fascinating article on how prions, that cause brain disease, pass from the urine or feces of a sick wild animal to grass which absorbs them, to the cow that grazes on it - and then to the consumer who eats that meat.   These prions are basically indestructible.  They cannot be killed by any known sterilizing method. 

 

Also read article that exposes how Alzheimer's can be transmitted from one person to another through the use of surgical and dental instruments, and blood transfusions. 

 

And now to the latest suspect:  The BMAA toxin found in seafood and blue green algae.

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Poisonous algae found in UK freshwater lakes and reservoirs could be fuelling Alzheimer's and dementia epidemic afflicting one million people

Toxin also found in seafood
such as OYSTERS

It is the first direct evidence that a chemical, produced by algae, might be linked to devastating brain conditions

Scientists have discovered the toxin in seafood and plants, through which it is feared it is entering the food chain

Researchers highlighted a growing body of evidence that the toxin, named BMAA, could trigger brain diseases

If confirmed, the chemical would be the first major environmental factor linked to increasing rates of Alzheimer’s 

 

Continue reading, including articles on how the blue green algae toxin kills pets by contact, on the links between Mad Cow Disease and Alzheimers, on how Alzheimers can be contagious, how anesthesia contributes to senility, the link between aluminum and Alzheimer's, and how prions that cause neurological disease can travel from wild animal to cow through grass, and end up in the human meat eater.

THE MYSTERIOUS SLIME TAKING OVER RIVERS ALL OVER THE WORLD - It is a type of algae also known as DIDYMO and GREEN SNOT - It spreads through human activity in rivers and streams

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It began with a few small strange patches of slime, clinging to the rocks of the Heber River in Canada.

Close-up photograph of a stalked
Didymosphenia geminata frustule 

 

Within a year, the patches had become thick, blooming mats. Within a few years the mats had grown into a giant brownish-yellow snot.

 

And within a few decades this snot had spread around the world, clogging up rivers as far away as South America, Europe and Australasia.

This snot, which is still flourishing today, is caused by a microscopic alga, a diatom that goes by its scientific name Didymosphenia geminata.

 

It has become so notorious it has its own moniker, Didymo. People have been blamed for the sudden, global explosion of this tiny organism, unwittingly carrying the algae from river to river on fishing gear, boats and kayaks.

 

The huge snots it forms have wreaked havoc in waterways, forcing governments and environmental organisations to initiate huge and costly clean-up operations.

A strange story


 Didymosphenia mats forming in
 the Stamp River, Vancouver Island

But underlying the snots’ strange appearance is an even stranger story. About Didymo itself, about what it is, and how it behaves.

 

Scientists are now discovering that the sudden appearance of Didymo may not have been so sudden after all.

Its blooms aren’t really blooms – instead they are more of an elixir-induced metamorphosis. And Didymo seems to ignore the usual rules followed by invasive species.

 

It even appears likely that this little diatom may not even be a significant problem itself; instead the brownish-yellow snot it forms may be a symptom of greater changes underway in freshwater systems around the world.

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