New important discovery: Found protein (ubiquilin2) is cause of all ALS
Major breakthrough as researchers discover common cause of all forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Here is another simple answer:
Basically proteins are large molecules that do work (they are essential for living life). Proteins assemble themselves to do work (this is called protein folding). There are variable that can effect the protein folding process (bonds, temperature, trajectories...
I was never worried about the snapping finger. In a few weeks it will have been a year since ive had it on my right arm. I just mentioned it *incase* it was related. Some people live over 10 years with this, and I thought may I just had a very slow progression or something. Figured it was worth...
Hmmm interesting. Right now problems are always there in my left hand, but things definitely get worse then back to normal after "working out".
What I find weird is my foot pain in the morning... Im even starting to notice it during the day sometimes now, or at night when ive been lying in bed...
If you check out there site, they give lots of good info: Folding@home - Main
OR here is an executive summary: http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/FoldingFAQ.pdf
Here is a quote from that summary:
What folding@home simulate this folding to try to understand how and why it works...
what happened to my post?
It was here earlier...
to summarize: folding is 100% legit and has gotten many awards.
Your post was removed because the links didn't work. Read above this post.
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I did a search on the forum and did not find any post on this....
Ive been folding for several years. Basically you install software on your PC and it runs proteins folding simulations to try to under stand why proteins misfold. Thousands (or tens of thousands now) of people run these...
well ive been paying a lot closer attention to myself and ive noticed a few things, so I got a few questions I hope a few can answer (the more the opinions the better).
1# With ALS did you (or do you still) find symptoms get worse after exercising? example: stiffness in only one hand for 2 days...
THe hand thing never bothered me. I was hesitant to mention it to my doctor and I was hesitant to mention it here (because it does not sound like ALS)... Like ive said, it hasnt really gotten worse. And its not making a fist, I can move my pinky as slowly as humanly possible and it still snaps...
sorry for long post, I made both a short and long version.
Longer version
Almost a year ago I started noticing anytime I wake up and clinch my right hand into a first my pinky would "snap" always at the same spot and very quickly move about 1". Since then this has started happening to my left...
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