The authors said it was 'important to stress' that 'most people who undertake vigorous exercise do not develop MND'
The findings, published in the journal EBioMedicine, "show a causal relationship between exercise and MND, with high-intensity physical activity likely to contribute to motor neurone injury, but only in individuals with a predisposing genetic profile," said the study by a team at the University of Sheffield.
High-profile sportsmen to have developed MND include Scotland rugby international Doddie Weir, soccer player Stephen Darby and late South African Rugby World Cup winner Joost van der Westhuizen.
"We have suspected for some time that exercise was a risk factor for MND, but until now this link was considered controversial," said Johnathan Cooper-Knock of the University of Sheffield.
"This study confirms that in some people, frequent strenuous exercise leads to an increase in the risk of MND.
"It is important to stress that we know that most people who undertake vigorous exercise do not develop MND.
"The next step is to identify which individuals specifically are at risk of MND if they exercise frequently and intensively, and how much exercise increases that risk," he added.
The neurodegenerative condition hinders messages sent from the brain to muscles in the body, causing them to waste away.
Around 10% of cases are inherited, "but the remaining 90% are caused by complex genetic and environmental interactions which are not well-understood," according to the study.
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A research scientist I know spent the last decade studying the fungicide fludioxonil (made by Syngenta) to understand how exactly it kills fungus and nothing else. Well, his research concluded that it began with a false premise, that fludioxonil doesn't kill everything else. What they discovered is that the chemical kills fungus by causing mitochondrial dysfunction, and that it isn't isolated to fungus. It causes the same dysfunction in every living thing it touches, and we've been spraying it on our foods since the late 80s, early 90s. About as long as we've been seeing a massive increase in autism diagnoses. Just correlation? Maybe. But most people forget about the CDC scientist who wrote a paper that specified that vaccines can cause autism in the " rare " instance of children with - you guessed it - mitochondrial dysfunction.
The university stopped his research after he published and he's now desperately trying to get it started back up again. Here's a presser somewhere in between abstract and layman's terms. [Link]
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In that light, it could be the beginning of an influence campaign to discourage people from activity, turning us into this: [Link]
Of course it is! Chalk this article up to preparing people for a host of 'rare' diseases becoming not-so-rare because of the eugenics jab. The next article will 'explain' the increased frequency as people getting excited to work out after being released from Covid restrictions. Just like this New York Times article preparing people for an increase in deaths [Link]
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