Brain Disease Summary

How a history of eating human brains protected this tribe from brain disease, article written by Sarah Kaplan

A very interesting article, the article written by Sarah and is about a tribe that perform in the most often seen taboo way of cannibalism. But this taboo thing as Sarah has said is what is actually saving this tribe from dying from a disease that is often seen in cows as mad cows disease is what is seen in some of the people dying after indulging in this cannibalism. But some as she says are not dieing and she goes along a way of this is the reason why. After some of the people had did this more then once they in a sense adapted to the disease. Humans and others had an amino acid called glycine but the tribe people had a different

amino acid called valine. And this valine protected them from the deadly disease, that resulted from the cannibalism. The main message in this video is on Darwin’s theory of evolution. The tribe people unknowingly adapted on the genetic level and adapted an amino acid to counter the disease. They evolved to survive and continue reproducing and surviving.
I myself thought the article very interesting and educational. The idea of that actually eating the brains was bad but then good is kind of twisted in its own way. It brought forth studies that could one day help with things that are degenerative diseases like the author said. And it wouldn’t of been found out without this taboo way of cannibalism. As it brought forth in the article I could only think of linking the area of where we learned about evolution of genes in class. But this article brought forth more, it brought this article that was in the real world something interesting and makes such a good example to use and relates so well to evolution. I learned of the tribe that cannibalism there dead ones but also how the cannibalism saved them at the same time.
Though I don’t agree with the idea of cannibalism everyone’s culture and beliefs are different, it was a interesting and educational article and I enjoyed reading it. Would love to read another like it. It helped science and I love science.