ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease): Fishing for Answers
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2016-03-05

The neurotoxin BMAA is found in seafood and the brains of Alzheimer’s and ALS victims. Might dietary changes help prevent amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?

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Maybe the ice bucket challenge should be to not serve seafood in them. The story continues in my next video Diet and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-and-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-als) .  

Diet may also play a role in other neurodegenerative disorders:
• Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-alzheimers-disease-with-diet)
• Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease With Plants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Preventing-Alzheimer%E2%80%99s-Disease-With-Plants)
• Alzheimer’s Disease: Grain Brain or Meathead? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-disease-grain-brain-or-meathead/)
• Reducing Glycotoxin Intake to Prevent Alzheimers (http://nutrititionfacts.org/video/Reducing-Glycotoxin-Intake-to-Prevent-Alzheimers)
• Preventing Parkinson’s Disease With Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-parkinsons-disease-with-diet/)
• Treating Parkinson’s Disease With Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/2013/08/29/treating-parkinsons-disease-with-diet/)
• Treating Multiple Sclerosis With the Swank MS Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/treating-multiple-sclerosis-with-the-swank-ms-diet/)

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