When testing for the HABs toxins, it may become important to include N-BMAA. Recent research about BMAA toxin becoming nitrosated to N-BMAA, resulting in a higher level of neurotoxic effect, may now cause a higher level of concern. BMAA research is emerging as a suggested neurotoxin associated with ALS increased occurrence in Guam, and by extension is being investigated as potentially additive or even possible causative in several neurologic diseases. Much of the early research has been inconclusive on the whole, but remains a troubling possibility for public health. The December 2017 research on N-BMAA may raise even higher interest in further research.
Published by Ray Kinney
When testing for the HABs toxins, it may become important to include N-BMAA. Recent research about BMAA toxin becoming nitrosated to N-BMAA, resulting in a higher level of neurotoxic effect, may now cause a higher level of concern. BMAA research is emerging as a suggested neurotoxin associated with ALS increased occurrence in Guam, and by extension is being investigated as potentially additive or even possible causative in several neurologic diseases. Much of the early research has been inconclusive on the whole, but remains a troubling possibility for public health. The December 2017 research on N-BMAA may raise even higher interest in further research.