Dr Robert Sapolsky’s Stress Vaccine: A ‘Herpes Virus To Carry Engineered ‘Neuroprotective’ Genes Deep Into The Brain To Neutralize The Rogue Hormones Before They Can Cause Damage

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2. Aww, c’mon Sapolksy did not say that in that wired article. I searched the entire article for any of the words in that sentence as well as terms herpes and vaccine. And there none of those things were mentioned in that article.

   I did however, find this statement in another article: “There is a classic study (by Tversky and Kahneman) in which people are given two scenarios. You have a population in which there are two diseases; each disease accounts for 50% of the deaths. Scenario A: you come up with something which completely cures one of the diseases, without having any effect on the other. Scenario B: you come up with something which cuts the mortality rate in half for each disease. The two are equivalent: 1 x 50% = 2 x 25%. The vast majority of people prefer Scenario A, for the sense of closure that it gives. My temperament has always been more for Scenario B. Stress, all on its own, doesn’t directly kill people in the way that, say, cancer does. What it does is make lots and lots of different diseases 2% worse, 5% worse, whatever. Distributed impact. Going after that is much more to my taste as an intellectual problem (rather than, say, coming up with a vaccine or identifying a mutation that underlies a disease – those are Scenario A’s).”

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   • @ALICIA MOGOLLON,

     This is not about a Wired article.

     This is from the Daily Mail article (see clearly visible link):

     “After early setbacks, the Stanford team has adapted a herpes virus to carry engineered ‘neuroprotective’ genes deep into the brain to neutralise the rogue hormones before they can cause damage. The virus is now shown to work on rats.

     ‘To be honest, I’m still amazed that it works,’ Professor Sapolsky told Wired magazine recently.

     He warned that human trials are years away, but added: ‘We have proved that it’s possible. We can reduce the neural damage caused by stress.’

     Last week, a Stanford University colleague, who called the potential vaccine ‘the Sapolsky shot’, said: ‘In humans this engineered virus would short-circuit the neural feedback caused by stress, that lingering feeling of tension after a crisis has passed.

     ‘It would leave you fresher and ready to deal with another threat, so you can maintain your drive, but with more focused calm rather than bad temper and digestion.

     ‘This could change society.’ Professor Sapolsky’s preparatory work was published last October by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.”

     So ‘come on’ and read the article as long as it is still online.

     You know that MSM is changing its articles all of the time, do you?

     This article from CBS News has been removed!

     Best,
     Infinite Unknown

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3. Which one is the doctor?

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