Infuse Your Water. Choose a mix of herbs and use about five or six stalks or leaves in a large six-cup water pitcher. I like to use basil, mint, lavender, and lemon peel most of the time. For more savory flavors, go with oregano, sage, thyme, and rosemary and perhaps add a lemon slice to round out the taste. Experiment with using different herbs and see which ones you like. Place the herbs either in an infuser or just into the water pitcher and let them soak at least eight hours. Enjoy for two or three days for a flavor-rich, low-cost, highly nutritious beverage. I love serving mine over ice, but you could easily warm this up to make a tea as well.
The study therefore describes a major cause of familial ALS in the Finland located on chromosome 9p21. Furthermore, the overlap with the risk haplotype (a combination of DNA sequences) recently also reported for frontotemporal dementia provides further evidence of a shared genetic cause for these two neurodegenerative diseases.
Sporadic and Familial ALS. Most cases of ALS are âsporadic,â meaning they are due to no known cause. Approximately 5-10% of cases are due to known genetic mutations. In most of those cases, another family member also has ALS or a related disease (see C9ORF72 below).9ORF72. This gene, discovered in 2011, is the most common genetic cause of ALS. (Its name refers to the position of an âopen reading frameâ on chromosome 9). Mutations in this gene account for between 25% and 40% of all familial ALS cases (depending on the population), and also approximately 4% to 6% of sporadic cases.