ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease): Fishing for Answers

The neurotoxin BMAA is found in seafood and the brains of Alzheimer’s and ALS victims. Might dietary changes help prevent amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?



Diet may also play a role in other neurodegenerative disorders:

[MarkGardiner]

Amazing information as ever, thank you Dr. Greger.

[zukodude]

I didn't learn that from all those ice bucket challenges :/

[herbdaum]

Thank you for sharing this finding. When I first learned of ALS many years ago there was very little understanding of possible causes of the disease.

[veggiegiant]

I can not thank you enough for such tremendously informative vidoes. Your work has literally changed my life in a profound way. Major Kudos Dr. Greger!

[benopie]

Lou Gherig was known to love eating eels he would catch himself. His teammates even had a running joke that eating eels is what gave Lou his power and ability to hit It was an a 1929 New Yorker article.

[eightOfour]

Received your book today, Doc! Thanx for all your hard work! ;)

[donaldstanfield]

Fascinating and life saving information thank you so much for sharing this.

[jamesbennie]

Very well done! I also like the format style change--color to the first excerpts is nice.

[TheJadeFist]

If you can get samples from hair of people, maybe it can be used as an early screening measure to find people who are more likely to developed these diseases later on and intervene with a dietary changes to avoid further BMAA build up.

[enjoyperfecthealth]

I love your channel and you are my goto for nutritional info - with this my husband was diagnosed with ALS 2 years ago and I am trying to reverse or stop the progress of this cruel disease, however we have been full vegan for about 5 years and don't eat Seaford etc, so not sure where his ALS has surfaced from.

[rosiejase]

It's not just eating, it's breathing too. A few years back, I read an article that people who owned lake homes in New a specific lake that had blue-green algae blooms were getting diagnosed w/ ALS at an alarming rate. Scary!

[thevagabondcalamity]

Givin this info, should one take algea supplements for long chain omega 3s?

[bevlove]

Doctor, can you reply to let us know if we should not take spirulina and chlorella now???!! Because I just got some and need to send it back if we should avoid it.

[genetoile]

I really love this channel and the work of Dr. Greger, if you think of doing french captions I can translate! Let me know!

[TheSUPERHAPPY]

Is this also found in Seaweed and Nori? 🌿🐟🐠

[Shay-ygnm]

What about taking fish oil supplements??

[bren]

Yea for Oliver Sacks! He's amazing! As are you Dear Dr. G.

[gallectee]

what about seaweed? just got some wakame seaweeds from japan

[mjanavel]

My uncle was the only known ALS sufferer in our family. He was a first-generation Italian-American from a region in Italy where the disease is pretty much unknown. He lived in NC and then VA, and maybe he ate a lot of fish/seafood. Don't know.

[Armoondi]

First time hearing about biomagnification, interesting. The algae talked about in this video is fearsome.