ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease Cause and Cure? 

I was debating to myself whether I should watch this video or not. My father passed away from ALS in 2012. Ironically we are from Two Rivers, Wi where that study took place (this is the first I have even heard of it). He was born and raised there. It breaks my heart thinking if we had known this, how that information could have varied his treatment plan and potentially saved or extended his life. Thank you for making incredibly science based and informative videos. I have recently begun a vegan lifestyle and videos like yours help me educate my friends and family better than any I have seen on RU-vid.

My dad died from ALS three years ago. I wish we could have known about this before, maybe he could have been saved. He fished all the time. :(

yeah, they cant make money off telling people to stop eating fish

What the what??? My Grandfather had ALS and passed away from complications after living several years paralyzed and on a ventilator. I've never heard of this correlation, thank you for the information!

ALS is a symptom diagnosed illness, not a caused based diagnosis. It has enough differences between people where there is not likely any one cause. I personally hate seafood. I always have. Rarely I will eat tuna, but usually no. My symptoms started in my hands and feet, and then moved up then now it is going for my throat. My type of ALS appears to be related to toxins, not to what you are talking about. I lived next to a cotton farm for many years. If you look into it, there is also a connection between toxins like agent Orange, and many diseases. ALS is supposedly not one according to the VA website, but there is enough people exposed to Agent Orange and other toxins that get ALS that it is hard not too see some relationship there. Getting back to me, in my case the M.D. that I am seeing linked mine most probably to toxins. Luckily we caught it early. I cut out all artificial colors, preservatives, and am trying to reduce the amount of food with Glyphosate. Oats have tons in them, as does wheat. I am not allowed oats anymore, even organic. I get heritage grain organic wheat from a local farm. It is very hard to do on my budget, but I am way obsessed with cutting out all chemicals I can. Yes, this has not included cutting out fish, but I never eat fish much anyways. Organic as much as possible, and beware of all cheaper meats. In my life, this is certainly not a cure. The disease is still progressing, but far slower than it had been. My symptoms are 100% better. I cheated once with a few brownies and I was stiff and sore for days afterwards. If anyone is getting ALS that reads this, I would also immediately cut out ALL food that has high levels of Glyphosate or that has artificial colors or preservatives. Yes I personally know that is very hard, but I do that myself because it makes a night and day difference for me. Again, everyone may have different triggers, but there is NO good reason to eat artificial chemicals. Distilled water helps for me as well. It has no added fluoride, as many brands of water can (Even though it is not labelled). Fluoride is a neurotoxin, and not a nutrient. Much of the fluoride you get is not medical grade, but rather industrial waste grade anyways. Do what you will, but this works for me. Cut out artificial chemicals as immediately and drastically as you can. Also, check your environment. Do you live near a farm or some business that uses a lot of chemicals? Do you use a lot of weed killer or other chemicals yourself? These are important questions. Doctors will not admit the cause for the most part. It is up to us to be extra careful.

This is a cruel and devastating disease. My heart and soul breaks for anyone suffering from ALS. I'm so skeptical about this. It just seems too good to be true.

I have a friend who quit smoking pot and was diagnosed with ALS.. I thought that he should go back to smoking weed but he wanted to die sober. So he did. This was a Very sad loss of a great human being, a courageous Dad and good friend and artist.

My father has ALS. He has been a committed vegan yogi for over 30 years. He has spent a large part of his life following the healthiest approaches and still got the disease. I wish I could help but he already does not eat or follow any animal products and has even grow his own organic food. It’s taking over very fast.

My husband was diagnosed with ALS 15 years ago. We both went plant based three years ago. I wish I would have known all that I know now about the dangers of animal products. I have never heard of BMAA before this video. Thank you for this information. I’m going to discourage my adult kids from eating fish.

It’s called Motor Neuron Disease (MND) here in Australia. My mum died of it in 2006. She rarely if ever ate seafood, so unfortunately this video doesn’t do much to shed light on what caused it in her case.

So much value in this video!! Fantastic channel man. I'll be binge watching your videos. Life changing

The Bible specifically says not to eat any of these unclean animals including shrimp , crab , shellfish , bats , eels etc way before science found this link....

This is absolutely fascinating. I feel like it's not discussed nearly enough.

How the hell can something be called a non-profit if they are pocketing millions?

you should send your research to kip andersen for the new "what the health" documentary! I'm sure they're almost done with the research for the movie but you've done such huge amounts of research, might as well check if they can use it.

Amazing info. A great guitarist Jason Becker developed ALS at about 18. I wonder if he ate lots of those fish.

Very well done! Great job! I still haven't heard any earth shattering news that the ALS society has promoted not eating seafood in any meaningful way. It's 'Inconceivable!' said with reference to The Princess Bride

I have to disagree. I hate seafood, I don't eat it! Though I believe I got ALS from my time in the military as the vaccines are loaded with neurotoxins like mercury and aluminum, amongst the other insidious adjuncts they add to vaccines. Also, 60% of ALS patients are veterans irrespective of age, gender, length of service etc... I am curious to your thoughts on that?

Thank you for the information. My 24 year old daughter Dixie has ALS. Diagnosed 2018. So now I have loads of questions for her drs. and the ALS association. Mercury was not a problem for her. DNA test showed it's not hereditary. It has progressed very quickly. Dr. said it just happens.That's so hard to understand. Please keep spreading the research,thoughts never know what may be discovered.

Two of my sisters died of ALS😢. One ate a lot of sea fish and shell fish, crab and lobsters. My second sister didn't eat any.

Please help me sir I'm 35 year old I'm suffering ALS disses one year

I have ALS and I don't eat seafood and am allergic to shellfish

Sir please find the complete cure for ALS..I want to save my mother..

What does this mean for the consumption of spirulina (since it's a cyanobacteria)? thanks for the video mic!

I have been a vegetarian since 2005 but I have been diagnosed with ALS; now in 2017!

I complement you on your great work for the betterment of society. Thumbs up and subscribed. Impressed with the amount of source material you provide.

an interesting study would be of Orthodox Jews who do, by law, not consume shellfish, compared to a control group, who had the higher ALS rates?

Wow. This one hits close to home. My dad was a friend and occasional hunting buddy of the famous baseball player Jim “Catfish” Hunter who also died of ALS. Hunter spent all of his non-baseball life on the coast of North Carolina, eating a lot of seafood and also hunting and eating the animals (ducks especially) that survived by getting their water and food from that same coastal area. Makes sense now.

There goes my goal of going pescitarian(am full meateater atm) I have nerve inflammation and afraid of developing ALS of other neurological diseases. Herbal teas like sage give me huge relief from symptoms! Sage happens to be anti-bactarial ;)

One of my favorite vegan RU-vid channels!

how can anyone say there is a cure for this awful disease. It breaks my heart as an als sufferer and have watched others die from this that others are so careless and awful to NOT accept and help sufferers. NOBODY lives without dying so embrace death instead of running away from it..

Everyone should watch this

WHAT IF IT'S NOT SEA FOOD

thank you my father is ill in bed with this deseasse he used to work with shrimp boats liked seafood lives tuna and is crazy about pickles fkn!!!!

Very interesting information, thank you.

Thank you so much for this informative video. I will share it.

Why then Dr Wahl cure her MS on paleo type diet? She ate 9 cups veggies and some meat/fish, seaweed but no grains? Man thats Fish and seafood off my shopping list!!! How about SEAWEED?? I eat it to chelate mercury/lead etc but I wonder if it could be doing me more harm??

So what is the cure? You say stop eating fish meat etc but there are plenty of comments of people that never ate meat much less seafood and no dairy. So what there?

thanks so much for taking the time to make this video it helps a lot

Brilliant post-thank you! Keep all this great information coming. You rock!

Mic, where would a individual get testing done for BMMA ? Hair , serum any would be nice.

God tells us not to eat unclean food; some of which live in the ocean. We have got to mindful of what we eat, because of the likelihood of getting such terrible diseases. That on top of "people" wanting to destroy mankind... God Bless!

You must have a really high I.Q. If I was a zombie I'm heading right to your house lol.

This was absolutely riveting to watch--I felt as though I were getting a secret history. Also, I love how clearly geeked you are about getting the information across in your delivery. Thanks so much for doing the critical discovery work necessary for this post : )

Wow, great video! NutritionFacts brought me here. Your video came up after Dr. Gregor's on this issue. Subscribed to your channel :)

One problem: Lou Gehrig's brain was re-examined a few years ago using modern medical devices and the conclusion was that Lou Gehrig DID NOT have ALS but died of brain trauma due to injuries sustained from the ball hitting him in the head. After this conclusion the medical community however decided to continue using the name 'Lou Gehrig's disease' to refer to ALS due to it's already widespread use.

My mother died on this day last year, after suffering from this shitty disease for three years. She was a lifelong vegetarian.

Thank you for the info !!I m greaful still a life i have LAS for 4 years!

Mic, you're The Man... GOD Bless you brother.

bro.. have you ever considered sentience in viruses single celled organisms and everything is sentient .. sensed stored electrical waves. and it makes sense in how certain molecule 'trickily? what are they conscious of what they are doing or...? disguise themselves as other molecules.. or do you think the disguising which iv heard many times for many molecules, is happenstance ?

Perhaps you are right. But the only reason why I don’t eat animals is because it is cruel.I don’t care for any other reason. Thanks for sharing.I hope people stop eating animals for the right reason. Not because they afraid of getting a disease. How selfish this sounds!

Why does this video only have 20k views?!?!

Wow, thank you so much for your research and for putting this info out for the world!!

This video doesn't explain why millions and millions of people all over the world eat Fish on a daily basis and do not develop ALS. Strictly opinion of a Vegan who is against eating fish and meat and he says that at the end of the video. Enjoy the ignorant ramblings of someone who is probably very annoying to be around in life.

I plan on bringing this to my neurologist for ALS.

Thank you so much. This makes a lot of sense. My brother has ALS and he was eating so much sea food.

once again, the best, informative and useful videos, have the the least views...hmmmm

how do we get the BMAA out? eat greens, seaweed,? what herb, what vegan foods will chelate and remove it ?the problem is from the blue green algae....the solution is maybe in the ocean too.....like with arthritis, swamps, willow bark.

Does this mean blue green algae or Spirulina are NOT safe??!

I’m waiting to be tested and this info was so helpful.

Good info. Will have to investigate more. I'm showing both upper and lower motor neuron symptoms. I'm a very big seafood eater. More in the last 5-10 years of my life than the rest. Maybe there is a genetic predisposition if this is part of the cause. Otherwise we'd have a lot more people than just 30,000 out of 320,000,000+. I'm studying Nervous System Introduction through Khan Academy to help put this all into perspective. If you're going through this and searching for answers, I highly recommend this. It's really helpful understanding what's going on on a cellular level.

why didn't the bats get it?

I think they know. They do not want to make the fish industry mad at them along with not wanting to lose their jobs because of what you suggest. I will go to the organization though and let them know. This was great. I have a close relative that has just come down with what appears to be als or some similar neurological disease. This person has been to three neurologists and many other doctors and no one, I repeat, not a one, has mention the connection. I also think some of them must know. I cannot bring up the subject because this person and his/her relatives do not want to hear me speak any more about whole food plant based eating.

You do realize, you will have literally cured people by sharing this information. Thank you so much, keep up with lengthy informative vids like these.

Woah, had no idea about this. Thanks for your amazing research!

This is all true - as per studies by researchers/MDs at Dartmouth and Harvard.

Wow! Keep up the good work, my best wishes.

I have ALS. I have always disliked seafood, and have eaten very little. Interesting video though. The questions are, 1) how does one flush the BMAA out of the brain, and 2) will doing so reverse the damage already done to the motorneurons? If not, your claim that this is a "cure" is patently false. My personal experience with the ALS Association has been excellent, including going to research panels. They do not want to give anyone false hopes, which you obviously have no qualms about.

Hello micthevegan, my dad is diagnosed with ALS two weeks ago. What do you recommend for a cure?

I understand criticizing how much *any individual at a non profit makes. But running a large non profit isn't easy. You need intelligent individuals running these non profits. They are the reason that people are able to get help. How can you criticize the Association without having ever worked or received aid from them yourself? Have you spent a day in the lives of one of their lives? They work with individuals with ALS every day; they educate them, give them free medical equipment, host support groups, go to their doctors office and advocate for them. It could easily be a 100 hour work week. But they do it because they care- it is't a pretty job and pretty money, contrary to what you have purported. They care about their patients with ALS and if they don't, they quit.

God bless you! I've got someone with ALS. Anything newer to know?

Thank you for this video!

Just seen this shout out in "The Vegan Revolution"'s latest video. Great job on this video! I learned a lot!

Is there a hereditary component? My grandfather died of ALS, and my 63 year-old father (who is fairly healthy as far as meat-eaters go - no blood pressure issues, good weight, no diabetes or cholesterol problems) eats a lot of fish and seafood being a resident of California for many years. I wonder if should mention to him??

Great video. On a related note, do algae-based omega-3 supplements contain BMAA? Or seaweeds? Or blue-green algae?

Another really great video. I'm sharing. I have family members that eat seafood.

I am guessing this advice works for motor neuron disease too? thanks for all you do.

coworker was diagnosed about 8 years ago --- he was 40 then and died about 4 years later and I do not recall this topic ever coming up though we talked a lot over those last few years. I do not recall if he ate a lot of seafood etc. though he was in the navy for many years I suppose he could have been in the position to eat more when he was at port etc . Also anyone who was ever in to salt water / reef tank husbandry will tell you as I was until about 10 years ago that Cyano was the arch enemy of a healthy tank! We generally called it Red Slime and once you got it well you had better take drastic steps to rid your tank of it quickly before it took over the tank.... I had a 300 gallon tank and got it once and ended up doing massive daily water changes for a month (which is not cheap when you throw in the cost of salt and the hour plus a day spent vacuuming out every spec of it that appeared before it spread) ....There were for sure toxins in there that would kill things that ate it pretty quickly (within weeks) as well as it taking over any coral.... So I for one have no doubt this is a candidate for sure as to root cause or at least a contributor to ALS

Thank you so much for this information! You may have saved at least one life with it. My cousin's dad and his dad both died from ALS (there must also be some genetic element to it) and of course we worry he may end up with it too. Oddly enough, we are Chamorro (Guamanian) on our mom's side of the family.

Hey Mic, a friend of my mom's was recently diagnosed with ALS. She only speaks Finnish but I would love for this important information to reach her. Would it be somehow possible to caption this video? I'd provide the translation!

The ultimate goal of any non-profit should be to put itself out of business. If they do their jobs effectively, there won’t be a need for them. The fact that there is so much profit motivation behind “non profit” organizations is obscene.

Very well researched video as always. Love this channel.

Fascinating video and definitely seems like a pretty solid theory.... I wouldn't be drinking spirulina either. If it came out that seafood was a cause for even 10 percent of als cases, it would destroy the seafood industry and there is no way they would let that happen.

What is the treatment please tell me als mnd

Nice work! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for information 👍❤️

What about BMAA's in algae products like microalgae Omega-3 fats and spirulina??

God bless you!

I researching all I can for my mom she's been diagnosed with ALS/ motor neuron desease.I'm trying so much to help her she's 72.I know from my own experience diet maybe can help her.

Excellent video! Thank you!

Great video.

Why did they fail. to tell when they had millions of dollars.Also ant biotics cause als.But isn't vegees covered in pesticides?And organic vegees have pesticide over spray.

Very informative thank you very much.

Hi Mic, A quick question; i wanted to buy BCAAs, but heard that they can cause ALS, is that true? did some research, but i cant read studies correctly and cant distinguish between good and bad designed studies. Thanks

Hi Mic, after learning that most cyanobacteria produce BMAA, I am very worried that my B12 supplements could be introducing unsafe levels of BMAA into my body-- owing to the fact that cyanocobalamin and others are harvested from bacteria and it begins with "cyano." I'm not sure if the bacteria that produce cyanocobalamin and methylcobalmin also produce BMAA. Could B12 supplements pose a risk, especially the cyanocobalamin kind? I'm very troubled over this as I've stopped taking my B12 supplement for now, but I don't want to become deficient either. 😕 I know you said water laced with cyanobacteria probably isn't posing a harm and that it's the meat that is the real source of BMAA, but could the B12 vitamins have higher concentrations than plain water that's been contaminated?

I became concered with cyanocobalamin (b12). Maybe better to have methyl?

What about Chorella? Are 2 serving sizes of that unhealthy?

I worry for my best friend who has brain fog, weakness.... and LOVES crabs, shellfish, seafood.

I am vegan, so no worries, but I do have the C9orf72 gene mutation for ALS with frontotemporal dementia. The BMAA only addresses the sporadic cases of ALS, which are the majority of cases.

What about bluegreen algae? Chlorella, spirulina?