ALS is a terrible disease with no cure. It leads to death within a few years after progressive neurodegeneration And, although it would be hard to find a person who has not heard of ALS after the Ice Bucket challenge a few years ago, it would be equally as hard to find a person who knows what causes it. That’s because 95 percent of ALS cases have no known cause (the other 5 percent have a genetic component.) This lack of answers opens the door for any news to gain traction simply because something, no matter how inane, is better than nothing......This post is being written one day after the article was published and there are already headlines such as “Pesticide exposure linked to increased risk of ALS” and “Pesticides, military service may be tied to ALS risk.” This publicity based on poor research highlights bad research which is not only distracting, but will dilute out the solid research that will, eventually, determine the cause(s) of ALS......To Read More....
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