what is als disease
als disease is a degenerative condition that affects the brain and the spinal cord not a lot of people are familiar with als disease chances are they have never heard of it before and if they had they might have seen it on television featuring a touching story of a person suffering from alshe cells affected in this condition are located in the spinal cord and in the brain thus affecting voluntary muscle control the name lou gehrig was the name of the first person diagnosed of the condition the origin of als is not very clear