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Strenuous lifestyle may increase ALS susceptibility

Agnes Gonzalez, a research nurse at an ALS center in Montpellier, France, described her team’s study, in which preliminary results suggest that consistent strenuous activity over decades may increase one’s risk of developing ALS.

When Gonzalez and her colleagues studied 51 ALS patients and 40 people with other neurologic diseases, matched with respect to age and gender, they found that those with ALS had expended significantly more energy in their daily lives over the course of three decades, starting at age 20.

Gonzalez said it appears that regular and intense daily activity is a more common way of life for people who develop ALS than for those who don’t. She said it wasn’t possible at this stage to determine why this may be so, but that decades of heavy work or other strenuous exercise could create a deficit of blood flow or oxygen in relation to nerve cells’ demands. She also emphasized that these results reflect an interim analysis and that a final analysis will include many more people with and without ALS.

I took the above from Lisa's post. Sometimes I really wonder where and why they keep studying all of these subjects and wasting the monies needed for the more pressing studies.

My father was just about the laziest man you could meet. Oh he never missed a days work until he developed Als and even then must have worked a few years not knowing he had it. Hr didn't have a stressfull job either.

He would come home and after television cameinto our lives sit and watch and read the newspapers and then eat and watch tv again till he went to bed. He never wasted his time talking to anyone and seemed now as I look back to have lived in his own world.

My brother lived life on a day to day existence that saw him periodically work and vacation. No excess energy there wasted, no excess energy ever displayed.

My grandson the same.

So take those three and include them in the test and what does it say then.

I sometimes think that we were better off back a few years when science and research was done on a scale that nowhere could meet todays standards.

You all know, back when we were looking for treatments or cures and not the garbage that we waste our time on now.

Well look for some more upbeat happy go lucky postings from me when I come back. I have a semi-permanent catheter in my arm and it is giving me trouble so I will be gone a day or two to fix it.

Over the last 4 months I have been privy to so much information that all I can say is don't give up.

The cure is coming!

One good indication of that is they have found nerves in the spine that travel up and down and can regenerate. I will look for that and post if Bobby hasn't got it.

If you do have will you post it here please Bob.

See you all in a day or two.