mad-as-a-marine-biologist: Shark fin + Soup = Degenerative Brain Disease Conservationists have long reasoned that bioaccumulation of toxins would occur in apex predators including sharks and cautioned on possible human health risks to consumption of any part of the shark. New research has analysed shark fins from Florida waters found high concentrations of β-N-methylamino-L-alanine, or BMAA, a neurotoxin that has been linked to Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease. The researchers tested seven species of shark for the study: blacknose, blacktip, bonnethead, bull, great hammerhead, lemon and nurse sharks. The scientists clipped tiny fin samples off of living animals so as not to harm their subjects. Reporting in the journal Marine Drugs, the authors found BMAA concentrations ranging from 144 to 1,838 nanograms per milligram levels which are similar to those found in the brains of Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease patients. We have a choice here. Are you going to choose degenerative brain disease? Source

mad-as-a-marine-biologist:

Shark fin + Soup = Degenerative Brain Disease

Conservationists have long reasoned that bioaccumulation of toxins would occur in apex predators including sharks and cautioned on possible human health risks to consumption of any part of the shark.

New research has analysed shark fins from Florida waters found high concentrations of β-N-methylamino-L-alanine, or BMAA, a neurotoxin that has been linked to Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease. The researchers tested seven species of shark for the study: blacknose, blacktip, bonnethead, bull, great hammerhead, lemon and nurse sharks. The scientists clipped tiny fin samples off of living animals so as not to harm their subjects.

Reporting in the journal Marine Drugs, the authors found BMAA concentrations ranging from 144 to 1,838 nanograms per milligram levels which are similar to those found in the brains of Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease patients.

We have a choice here. Are you going to choose degenerative brain disease?

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    being fancy. getting rid...shit like soup, Thank...for...