From the responses, the team learned that the ALS patients were not the only mushroom foragers in town, but they shared an affinity for a particular species that local interviewees without ALS said they never touched: the false morel.
From the responses, the team learned that the ALS patients were not the only mushroom foragers in town, but they shared an affinity for a particular species that local interviewees without ALS said they never touched: the false morel.
I’d be surprised if this was the case, but:
Does this mean that ALS is entirely caused by external factors like the chemicals found in these mushrooms?
Better still, is it entirely caused by these mushrooms?
If so, that’s amazing news for humanity.
Definitely not 100% external. A chunk of cases are known to be genetic.
And these people were eating a mushroom known to be mildly poisonous.