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STUMBLED UPON: Do We Have A Cure For Lou Gehrig's Disease? (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Bill SardiResearchers writing in the Annual Review of Biochemistry have been investigating SOD1—superoxide dismutase 1 – an internally made enzymatic antioxidant and ALS. When the human body is biologically stressed SOD-1 is produced from copper-zinc precursors. Somehow in the development of ALS zinc-copper SOD1 becomes toxic, destroying motor neurons (nerves used for movement).
In a more recent report published in Neurobiology of Disease we learn that the provision of copper lengthens the lifespan of ALS mice by 25%.
Then, apparently on the cusp of a cure, researcher Stephen Byer indicates a zinc/copper drug is being tested and winks his eye to say, if you read between the lines, that maybe ALS patients ought to be taking copper and zinc supplements.
1 Comments in Response to STUMBLED UPON: Do We Have A Cure For Lou Gehrig's Disease? (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
Thank you for posting this article. A friend of my wife in China has ALS and these simple supplements of Zinc and Copper might help. I will let her know. Peace Steve Watkins