LONGECITY

So I was reading about T. gondii, and it looks like they're using a GMO version for for a potential cancer therapy. Cats lick themselves and we rub our faces on them or eat with the hands that we pet them with... What do you think?

 

http://medicalxpress...ine.html#ajTabs

Because of the interesting life cycle and effects on mice, t. gondii has been discussed a few times at LongeCity,

 

in regards to dopamine

 

in regards to psychology/culture

 

It would be nice if it had an anti-cancer effect, I kind-of doubt it though. More likely, having pets is a social activity and being socially engaged (even with non-humans), seems to confer a life extension benefit.

Edited by Mind, 20 July 2014 - 11:48 AM.

Hm.. long time ago I heard that cats can feel ill people (for example someone having cancer), so they choose to stay near you or right in bed with you much more time than they would normally do. It's still a vague theory, but according to what you guys said, maybe cats know that they can cure cancer if they would only be left alone to mind their own business and take care of the patient. Pretty much yea... doctor cats everywhere. Just give it 30 years and you will see all hospital's staff being replaced by cats.

Hmmm.. I lived through acute psychosis secondary to toxoplasma infection I got from a mangy stray cat I wanted to heal. Oh what a trip that was! Glad to have survived to tell the story. Supposedly I'm immune now.

It looks like you can get alot of diseases from pets. Pets of any kind should probably require a license so owners can be taught about this kind of thing.

A licence to own a pet? Sure, let's let the state decide who may or may not have a cat or dog. NO THANKS.

It looks like you can get alot of diseases from pets. Pets of any kind should probably require a license so owners can be taught about this kind of thing.

 

There is no lack of stray animals roaming around my city and we have a license program like you are wanting. I guess we could have drug laws preventing people from taking hard drugs like meth, but there are meth users nearly at every corner(per the local police department). But I guess we should stop the flow of drugs from Mexico to the US, have some kind of war on drugs, so to speak, seems to be a normal thing coming through the border, interesting. Hell, lets just have a full war on terrorism and go overseas to stop it. 

 

See what I did there? 

Edited by redFishBlueFish, 03 August 2014 - 06:39 AM.

When I see the funny cat behaviors, it made me laugh and reduces stress. I'm not sure that make me live longer or not.

I'm pretty sure it's because cats reduce stress and lower blood pressure through petting and bonding with them. 

Hmmm.. I lived through acute psychosis secondary to toxoplasma infection I got from a mangy stray cat I wanted to heal. Oh what a trip that was! Glad to have survived to tell the story. Supposedly I'm immune now.

 
oops.. had the toxo test done recently. Turned out, I never had it. Plus the doc said that psychosis due to toxoplasma happens only in people with AIDS, and that only in chronic toxo and never in acute, new infection. So I wonder what I picked up from that stray cat that two days later caused me to go raving mad for the whole week  

 

Hmmm.. I lived through acute psychosis secondary to toxoplasma infection I got from a mangy stray cat I wanted to heal. Oh what a trip that was! Glad to have survived to tell the story. Supposedly I'm immune now.

 
oops.. had the toxo test done recently. Turned out, I never had it. Plus the doc said that psychosis due to toxoplasma happens only in people with AIDS, and that only in chronic toxo and never in acute, new infection. So I wonder what I picked up from that stray cat that two days later caused me to go raving mad for the whole week  

 

 

Rabies.  Do you have an aversion to sunlight?

lol come think of it, I could not drink water (it tasted like gasoline), I did not eat nor slept but had tremendous energy that must have come from raging adrenaline due to acute paranoia. (I could not decide whether I was abducted by invisible aliens, who sort of remote-controlled me and the people around me, or I had died and was in the purgatory, which only on the surface looked like normal planet Earth -- see, when you go mad, I discovered, what changes is the underlying idea of things, the one in which light we interpret the world; we are not aware of it until it is gone and is replaced with something else)

Don't recall being afraid of sunlight specifically, though all things I remember did go on in the car (which I wrecked), at night or indoors. There was a scary episode a la B-rated horror movie, with cops who tried to subdue me. They were big guys, over 100 kilos each, and imagine, I thought to myself, I don't wanna hurt them, and then all I did was shake my arms just once (as if they were wet) and the cops flew across the room into the wall. I swear to god! Having seen this, I decided to play dead from then on, lest I kill someone inadvertently or get myself killed (and I did just that until they finally brought me to the hospital -- no drugs were found in my system).

So, rabies? hmmm... now I know what vampires amazing fits are based on    (I think it's sheer adrenaline, guys)

Edited by xEva, 20 March 2015 - 04:29 AM.

Maybe be. Cats are good beings and help us in depresions =)