Amnesic Seafood Poisoning
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-05-23

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DESCRIPTION:There's a rare toxin called domoic acid that can turn up in tuna and other seafood and cause anterograde amnesia, the loss of short-term memory popularized in the movie Memento. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/amnesic-seafood-poisoning/ and I'll try to answer it! This video is about natural toxins that bioaccumulate up the food chain, but the same happens with industrial pollutants. See, for example, Xenoestrogens & Sperm Counts (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/xenoestrogens-sperm-counts/) and Fish Intake Biomarker (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-intake-biomarker/). Some of the other unusual conditions to strike fish consumers are profiled in Sexually Transmitted Fish Toxin (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sexually-transmitted-fish-toxin/), New Corpse Smell (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/new-corpse-smell/), Allergenic Fish Worms (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/allergenic-fish-worms/), Fish Fog (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-fog/) and Greasy Orange Rectal Leakage (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/greasy-orange-rectal-leakage/). There are about 50 videos on fish (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/fish/) and hundreds more on more than a thousand other topics (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/).

Image Credit: John A Beal, PhD via Wikimedia Commons, and Jonathan Ehrich and jetheriot via Flickr.

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