Humans: "If you eat a human brain, you'll die" ← Isn't this low-key scary?

どんな味するんやろ

It was like shirako

If you season it properly, it’s tasty

The World’s Strangest Diseases

Hin-na Hin-na

Do you know crab miso? 😅

>>7
It's not brain miso, lol

Dr. Lecter ate it

Basically, you won’t die
Only if you get prions, then you’re 100% dead

Is it Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

That’s what you call brain dead

Wait,
Not the one who got eaten, but the one who eats dies?

>>16
That’s right
Something about prions
I think it’s a disease common among cannibal tribes

>>23
It’s prions

Theoretically, if you cook it thoroughly, it should be fine

Was it Return of the Living Dead?
They used to show it a lot on TV

https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E7%97%85
Search for Kuru disease

Is it a mechanism to prevent cannibalism?

I guess it’s designed so we can’t do cannibalism

Is Kuru disease something different? Is it region-specific?

>>34
Prion disease is the general term
For humans, it’s Kuru disease, for cows, it’s mad cow disease

There was an X-Files episode where an immortal cannibal tribe all got sick and died

Isn’t it too risky for a species to not be able to do cannibalism?
Humans can manage, but wild animals might starve to extinction

>>42
It takes years to manifest, so it’s enough for generational turnover
Not sure about cultural inheritance

>>45
That Kuru disease tribe also starts getting it in their 40s, which is about the natural lifespan in the wild, so it should be fine

>>42
There are actually a lot of species that practice cannibalism
Crabs are like, “Ugh, parenting is tiring, let’s eat the babies, nom nom”

Even if humans could be eaten, the tastiest ones would be the young and healthy, so it’s not cost-effective

Actual brains aren’t as soft as you imagine
They’re like boiled egg whites

>>57
Well, if they were too mushy, headbanging would turn them into sauce

>>57
That’s still pretty soft
Feels like they’d tear apart with a sneeze

Prions have the properties of a fantasy evil substance
Abnormal proteins that, once ingested or inhaled, cause normal proteins to mutate in a chain reaction, turning the brain into a sponge and killing you in a few months
Irreversible changes with no cure, death guaranteed

The incident where everyone went crazy at the pig slaughterhouse is truly scary

>>69
Tell me more, you pig

>>74
https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/4064999/

>>78
Thanks, you pig

Well, prions are proteins, not bacteria or viruses, so the immune system doesn’t activate, leaving you to wait for death

What if they’re lying to prevent cannibalism, and eating brains actually transfers abilities?

>>126
Getting your mind taken over sounds scarier

If it’s protein, can’t you just cook it?

>>132
Prions are tough, so heat treatment doesn’t work

You can get infected by prions from other species if you’re unlucky
It’s hereditary too
It can even spontaneously occur in your own body
No countermeasures

There’s still a lot unknown about prions
Lots of Nobel Prize-worthy stuff waiting to be discovered

>>147
There are still people who don’t think it’s a pathogen

>>151
Then what are prions?

>>158
They’re abnormal protein variants

Brains have souls in them
When you eat them, they mix with yours
If you can’t overcome it, you get dementia or die

It’s weird that humans can live with something so dangerous in their brains