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“The nagging question after these studies was whether we had a true finding versus a spurious one due to ‘the healthy survivor effect,’ also called ‘the healthy vaccinee effect’,” Schulz told MNT.
This is the key bit — the new study rules out most influences of the healthy survivor effect.
So all these connections to nutrition and a healthier lifestyle were survivor effects? Viral has an actual effect?
Environment always trumps health activities. Jogging in New York City along traffic is equivalent to smoking a pack a day of cigarettes.
Most of the modern maladies we have come from toxic environments and viruses.
Yup
HCMV could also be contributing to Alzheimer's as well.... crazy times we're living in
Edit:
Study from the article posted
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.14401
Results were of cadaver cells in a petri dish, however the damage to neurons was consistent with other Alzheimer's studies. However, this is not to say that if you have HCMV you will get Alzheimer's. More research is needed, but it's a possible marker that vaccines could help to ameliorate Alzheimer's in the general population.
From the study
An alternative is that these mechanisms reflect a viral manipulation of host biology and could thus warrant therapeutic modulation. HCMV IgG seroprevalence is common and varies by age and comorbidity, present in 79% of 85-year-olds
I feel like as we keep learning more and more, that a lot of things we catch over our lives really do have longer term bad outcomes. That it happens is nothing new, like chicken pox and shingles, but its probably way worse than we currently know.