@atsugi, probably i wasnt clear. i do not think of why people get als, but what they are supposed to do when they became aware of fact that they have it. i think that percentage of pals which are in military service is higher by chance. there are three kinds of lies: ordinary lie, dirty lie and statistics. i was in war, not just pasive in military service. i got ak47, 60 bullets and i've been told: you're on your own. as you can read, i survived. in my country percentage of soldiers with als is lower than it is presented in media. i know two ladies, friends and coleagues, worked in a same company, both suffered from als, both passed away. weird? they were in sarajevo. bosnia and hecegovina, republic, has totaly 35 pals. diagnosed, missdiagnosed and undiagnosed, god knows. in a (town) place in bosnia which has 46000 people, there are 12 pals or more...
@romeosc your case tells that als is in fact the big umbrella, which hides bunch of diseases that have same mechanism, attack same things and look the same. now we can try to differ field called als. is it something wrong with metabolism of carbohydrates that cause damage of mytochondria in neurons, lypoprotein involucre is damaged so whole motor neuron is affected, something third or thirtythird, god knows. i strongly believe that ALS in medical vocabulary will disappear and it will be divided into many diseases as soon as medicine find out something radically. hence, als is nothing but bunch of very simmilar diseases. als is diagnosed by negative sellection, so it is called "professional charlatanism". i can not believe that 100 pals have 100 clinical signs and that is about one disease. that is why is impossible to find one pill for all diseases. here immunity plays main role, cause it doesnt ask "who attacks my body?", but sharpen its spears and swords to deffend it. term ALS is used as medical impotency to describe or reveal mechanism of such diseases. i belive in inner cure, i.e. stem cells. some people live 3 years, some 20. same disease? i dont believe. you can say "everyone is different", but i will say "every disease is different, except some who look almost the same."
when you have high temperature, it can be million diseases. this is simplified.
@tedstehr i wrote almost the same you wrote in one sentence, but my comp got frozen while i wrote. in a meantime you posted. sigature to every your word.