Prion Disease Goes Unwind Your(protein)self
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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Prevention: Avoiding practices of cannibalism
Wow ok. Not very inclusive then smh
Millennials have killed the cannibalism industry 🤬
Cancel culture comes for cannibalism!
Cannibalizing cannibalism? No one wants to work anymore!
Corpses of family members were often buried for days, then exhumed once the corpses were colonized by insect larvae, at which point the corpse would be dismembered and served with the larvae as a side dish
Nope nope nope nope nope nope
a 196 classic:
Why does it have a ballsack mouth?
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All I'm hearing is ballsack mouth
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Prion disease is a terrible way to die, stay away from brains folks
Baby brains are much less likely to have any prions.
Yea it would’ve cost nothing for you to not write that
Yeah but then I wouldn't have known I was safe.
Which one?That's like saying virus is a bad way to die
All of them. Every prion disease affects the same protein in the brain. They’re all 100% fatal degenerative encephalitis diseases and they just plain suck.
Everyone here saying "cannibalism bad", yet no one is answering the question smh my head
Would eating human brain make your own brain go weeeeeeeeeee?
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: Prions make your brain melt.
I get that eating human brains can give you a deadly disease, but what I wanna know is why didn't the brain owner die from that same disease?
It's because an essential protein got misfolded while the body decays, these misfolded proteins can misfold other protein and suddenly your brain is full of useless molecules instead of what it needs.
Some prion diseases, including essentially all those known to affect humans, take decades to cause symptoms. If they hadn't died of something else, they would have eventually died of the disease.
Cannibalism isn't, speaking societally, dangerous because it gives you the disease. If you get it and die, whatever, that doesn't endanger anyone else. The problem is that cannibalism is usually a group affair, and that means one person with a prion disease can pass it on to many people at once, who won't show symptoms for essentially half a lifetime, and they might also be eaten when they die, spreading it to more people, etcetera.
hunter s thompson is known for making shit up for an interestin story and now a bunch of shit heads think adrenochrome is extracted from the spine and you can get high off it
Prion disease is a terrible way to die, stay away from brains folks
zombie outbreak, but the zombies aren't undead, just a bunch of drug-addicted cannibals
that's not how it works
I only eat premium kuru brains. Their spongy texture absorbs sauces so well.