Like a mask, the faceless form online reveals as much as it hides. May you find peace, Marc Remillard. :-)
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Originally Posted by The Godfather
Less of the ageing Rick. I have never had anyone guess me as being older than 35. Ron is old enough to be my Father.
I'm not a science fiction fan, so I don't know Marc Remillard. However, the persona somebody projects on the Internet is probably very different from how they actually are. The Internet is very deceptive in that respect. In the real world I am easy going and usually play the fool. It's only when it comes to medicine that I get serious, critical and contentious, because that's what medicine deserves. I have made the most ridiculous false assumptions myself about people on BT - wrongly guessing people's age, gender, nationality, personality. One person I had always assumed to be an old man, turned out to be a nice looking young woman - a real stereotype destroyer as far as PD is concerned.
I gave what Ron had written a serious appraisal. I thought that was what he wanted - unless maybe it was fom me ! I did it because I found the subject interesting. If it does suggest or even prove anything, then it may be that the function of the blood brain barrier tends to decline with age, and that this makes somebody more prone to the effects of toxicity. This would have implications for most medical disorders. There are about a dozen known toxic causes of PD. There are probably already studies in the scientific literature that deal with the relationship of some of these toxins to blood brain barrier function.
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