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Fucking prions, man. Scarier than most diseases. Remember kids: in a survival situation it's okay to eat most of a Long Pig or a cow but don't eat the brain. You just never know.
I'll eat the brain and nothing else. Don't tell me what to djsbrhrjdhrb3jurhdbdudbjeje.........
Can someone explain this plz?
Imagine a fundamental building block of life as a gear. Now imagine your brain as a clockwork clock. Now take the diseased prion gear and throw it into your clockwork mind.
Suddenly, that mismatched gear smashes into the other gears. This strips the gears and makes them like the foreign gear and now your mind no longer keeps track of time and many other things.
Great analogy!
Two Hunters from the Same Lodge Afflicted with Sporadic CJD: Is Chronic Wasting Disease to Blame? (P7-13.002) https://www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1212/WNL.0000000000204407
Deer Are Beta-Testing a Nightmare Disease https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/02/deer-chronic-wasting-disease-prions-spillover-people/677307/ https://archive.is/ryj69
If i remember right a simplified explanation would be: A protein is a long chain of amino-acids that folds into a specific structure to achieve a certain task(for example stuff like cut a certain bond in a certain molecule). Prion is the exact same chain of amino-acids but it has folded in a wrong configuration thus cannot complete the original function, and even worse it can refold other proteins with the same amino-acid chain to the prion configuration slowly spreading through the body infecting more and more proteins ultimately depriving the body of the ability to do a specific fuction
Pls someone correct me if im wrong because my source is a vague memory of likely a video i dont remember possibly years ago.
Prions ,as explained on a different comment above
Cannibalism bad.
Depends on the task. Higher intellects tend to dismiss the simpler work, leaving it for the misfolded ones to work at