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With all the hormones and whatnot inside. Dopamine, adrenaline, melatonin, whatever. Also, there's this Hunter S. Thompson bit on the.. pineal gland?

If it had an effect on you, wouldn't it be a really messed up high, all over the place? With uppers, downers etc mixed? (Not including the emotional implications of eating raw human brains.)

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 109 points 10 months ago

Not sure about that but it is a great way to get Kuru

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Often takes years or even decades for symptoms to appear after exposure

Oh jolly, everything about this resembles the Mad Cow Disease

[...]

The epidemic likely started when a villager developed sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and died. When villagers ate the brain, they contracted the disease and then spread it to other villagers who ate their infected brains.

Jolly

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

It's a prion disease. Mad Cow, Creutzfeldt-Jacob, Chronic Wasting (so far only seen in deer), and Scrapies (known of for a long time and so far limited to sheep and goats) all start with a misfolded protein and gradually break down the brain till it looks like a sponge.

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago

Specifically a spongiform encephalopathy. Completely incurable and universally fatal. If you contract a prion disease medical science can only ever prolong the inevitable, and it is extremely unlikely that will ever change barring some unknown hyper futuristic nano-machine technology.

[-] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in cervids such as deer, moose, and elk, which thankfully has not been shown to be transmissible to humans yet. Prions are the stuff of nightmares.

Oh, and Fatal Familial Insomnia.

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