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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • This is going to sound like a joke, but I’m serious: I hope Michael J Fox tries this out and reports back some positive results.

    This is a very simple treatment that is universally available, can be done at home, and at the very least is preventative. He is a huge public figure in the Parkinson’s world, and any potential upside to him for this would be enough to get a lot of people to also get the same if they have a risk, or are early-stage.

    The article doesn’t go into if this can still help late-stage Patients, but it would track that it could at least stop symptom progression, being a simple vitamin deficiency and all. A more fully formed treatment could also include fecal transplants to replace aged or missing colonies of these gut bacteria if a late-stage progression means these colonies have just died off.

    Sadly, since Parkinson’s ultimately is about neuron damage or death, I don’t think any of this is expected to repair any damage already done.






  • Okay, so hear me out here before shouting me down:

    This is just kind of thinking “around” the lack of observable Dark Matter, the fact that we haven’t detected any massive gravitational oddities when relating to mass, and the Einstein Field Equations. So it’s just kind of replacing the ‘m’ in the equation, but wouldn’t we be detecting this sort of thing literally everywhere by now? How would this justify something observable like Gravitational Redshift, because it would seem we would have noticed something like this for as long as we’ve had deep space telescopes, no?