Glimmers of hope are showing. In animal models, a treatment with naturally occurring nerve growth factors has arrested the disease. Human tests have started. A disease in Guam resembles ALS and may be a slow poisoning from an amino acid in the false Sago plant seeds. Another similar disease lathyrism is due to toxicity from chickling peas.
Electric shock can cause a similar disease or working in the leather industry.
Different insults to the nervous system may singly or together lead to ALS, suggesting that your environment can kill you. The disease is no longer neglected. There is hope. All rights reserved.