ALS rarely begins the day someone receives the diagnosis

ALS rarely begins the day someone receives the diagnosis. It begins years earlier, while biology is quietly losing resilience. Last week I watched Last Words of Eric Dane. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that gradually causes loss of muscle function. Like many people, I found it heartbreaking. The time weakness appears in the body, we have already missed years of opportunities to detect that something wasn’t right. Over the years I’ve worked with a small number of clients living with ALS. It isn’t my specialty. However, what struck me was that significant biological stress was often already present - environmental toxins, mitochondrial dysfunction, chronic inflammation, metabolic disruption and other measurable risk patterns. These will have been around often for a decade at least, detectable if anyone had bothered looking into them. Granted - none of those findings prove causation. And ALS is extraordinarily complex.