Up to half of the world's population is infected by toxoplasmosis, but have no symptoms.[7] In the United States, about 23% are affected.
What is though? Its parasitic disease people get from their cats among other things. It can cause people to do risky thing they otherwise wouldn't.
And some people think it might control your political views or make you gay. Share whatever info you've got and I'll share/respond back. I really think this could be something
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Bump.
toxoplasmosis has been found to affect a large number of people who ride motorcycles (and die riding them).
source: a vague memory from college.
I've heard that too on Joe Rogen's podcast.
another one
These are from rationalwiki btw. Mainstream sources seem to say the same shit but without the gay/NWO stuff
Jannies and SP0W got the basedbug too.
another interesting parasite is Schistocephalus solidus.
it affects the minds of fish. normally an uninfected fish will seek shelter when the shadow of a bird appears (under a leaf or rock or something), but a fish infected with Schistocephalus solidus will stand in the open and allow itself to be eaten. the parasite then completes its life cycle inside of the bird, and it gets shit out back into the water to be consumed by fish and repeat the cycle.
my point? its not too far out there to think that a parasite could control or affect human behavior.
I grew up with lots of cats in our house. I am as straight as a ruler and a full 1488 nazbol.
i think the most interesting parasite i learned about was tapeworms that cause cysts in moose, elk, deer, etc. the animals eat the grass, take in the tape worm, the tape worm forms a cyst near their lung/heart. the cyst makes them weak and unable to run. they get killed by wolves. parasite completes its life cycle inside the wolf. wolf shits out the tape worm. another deer/elk/moose eats the tape worm, and the cycle repeats.
>its not too far out there to think that a parasite could control or affect human behavior.
I think its kind of crazy we're not talking about this more.
How you feel about traps?
Why the fuck did you reply my bump, whigger?
Toxo is a wild ride. Starts with rat cysts, goes to cats, which we then bring into our homes, women get the disease and pass it onto their sons. But to what end?
Because those were just little infograbs also meant to bump this thread.
Btw this one is from a peer reviewed journal, faggot
i dont think it has a purpose other than to continue its life. its not like its sentient. its just a self replicating "program."
mice have similar genetic traits to humans. toxoplasmosis just does its thang. it wants to kill its host so it can get into a cat body to complete its life cycle, but it is oblivious (because its not sentient) to what its hosts do...
Do you think it's the cause of homosexuality to humans? or Nah
retard
That pic is from Uworld!
260+ Step 1 master race reporting in.
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kys faggot (and i hope the cats eat you)
Is anyone on board with the toxo new world order theory? Somebody give me a redpill.
>get rid of cats to avoid toxoplasmosis
>get the Black Death instead
watch from 00:12:30 mark
So you are saying I get free increased dopamine if I get a cat?
Possibly, but at what cost?
What are the legitimate possible effects?
Is it easy to test for?
robert sapolsky says the us military is/was interested in toxo for its effects on "courage."
i wonder if us soldiers got toxo tests what the results would be...
the effects fall into two categories. What fridge scientists claim and what mainstream medical science admits to.
We can all agree it makes you take more risks, makes you careless, could make you schizo, suicidal etc.
And on the other side of the coin it might be the prime deciding factor of whether or not you're gay. And it could very well be a literal hive mind growing within our society.
never heard anything about toxo and homosexuality. going to need a sauce on that one.
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Start with this. Theres no concrete shit i've found. Was hoping somebody would come into the thread with better research
I found ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This says it actually increases testosterone to lower host immune response. It's also more prevalent in rural areas
you must be a university student? I cant access the sagepub article.
>Thus, the men were more likely to disregard rules and were more expedient, suspicious, jealous, and dogmatic. The personality of infected women, by contrast, showed higher warmth and higher superego strength (factors A and G on Cattell's 16PF), suggesting that they were more warm hearted, outgoing, conscientious, persistent, and moralistic. Both men and women had significantly higher apprehension (factor O) compared with the uninfected controls.
>In general, differences in personality factors were greater in subjects in older age groups.
>The composite behavioral factors Self-Control and Clothes Tidiness, analogous to Cattell factors Q3 (perfectionism) and G (superego strength), showed a significant effect of the toxoplasmosis–gender interaction, with infected men scoring significantly lower than uninfected men and a trend in the opposite direction for women.
>Those with latent infection performed significantly more poorly (analysis of covariance, P = 0.011) and appeared to lose their concentration more quickly, although the effect of the infection was modest and explained less than 10% of the variability in performance.12 Similar results were recently obtained in 2 (unpublished) studies performed on 439 blood donors and 623 military servicemen.
>The studies reviewed suggest that T. gondii may have subtle effects on personality and psychomotor performance. If so, this would be consistent with the effects of T. gondii on rodent behavior
interesting read. thanks for the link.
So basically it possibly increases dopamine and testosterone, subsequently making one more, "courageous" but with the tradeoff that TG effects your perception sexual attraction and lowers individualistic thinking patterns?
yes, your cat made you a faggot
np. Been starting to read a lot of medical studies and journals recently. biology is interesting as fuck
sexual attraction? I don't recall reading anything like that. Did someone find a source for this gay insinuation thing?
only AIDS fags die from Toxo, Toxo is the ultimate anti-gay solution
I dont know, but I'm just asking that it's possible? I cant even imagine how that'd work
How can you check how much t Gondi you have or are hosting??
the articles you linked dont suggest that. but they do suggest a strong link between toxo and being schizo
that's neat but no journal or academic would dare publish anything saying not opposing migrants/islam is self destructive behavior.
found it boyos, this is weird
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>One Less.png
>not "One Fewer"
Dis nigga serious?
>journals.sagepub.com
screenshot and post, nigger. i cant log in to that shit.
you don't need to log in dude
> The infected subjects expressed a lower tendency toward sexual dominance, tattoo and piercing, watching pornography, group sex, and they are less often engaged in activities that include Bondage, Discipline and Sado-Masochism (BDSM). However, they expressed higher attraction to bondage, violence, zoophilia, fetishism, and, in men, also to masochism, and raping and being raped.
Basically sums it up to my understanding.
hmmm.... lots of hedge words in that conclusion. seems very uncertain.
i'd honestly say the topic deserves more research. but the findings so far are interesting to say the least.
Toxoplasma probably only slightly increases the tendencies of infected subjects to be sexually aroused by BDSM stimuli and especially by sexual submissiveness, one’s own fear, and one’s own pain in male subjects. It could hardly by fully responsible for humans’ sexual arousal by BDSM stimuli, as the Toxoplasma infection explained only relatively small part of the between-subjects variability in BDSM-related traits. In its natural hosts, the rodents, even a small effect of infection on attractiveness of a smell of dangerous feline predators could result in the fatal attraction phenomenon, and by this, it can increase the chance of the parasite’s transmission from intermediate to definitive host by predation.
Seems relativity benign
Didn't think of that makes sense.
Has any cure for TPG been found?
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Interesting article linking TG and business behaviors
...
>Seems relativity benign
Unless its affecting the way we vote.
23% of Americans user, maybe more
You a cat or a dog person?
read moar
It was a joke. Clearly u have a brain parasite
toxoplasma gondii is why I don't eat pork (and stay away from cats). call me a muslim or a jew or whatever, but I don't want parasites running my brain. well I probably already do, but you should at least keep the number down.
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The results here showed an odd change of the personality traits of positive individuals, they were more varied and didn't have a strong mean compared to the control. Kind of a weird result
>So you are saying I get free increased dopamine if I get a cat?
How could you not???
>u have a brain parasite
just autism, and maybe toxo (i have two cats)
how can you not love these kitties?
if you get too much dopamine you'll end up with amphetamine psychosis or schizophrenia
Could toxoplasma gondii be the reason some people claim not to have an inner monologue? They have it.
I remember reading a study about how large amounts of serotonin is corrosive to the tpg in your brain. the amount of serotonin required tho is close to a serotonin syndrome/OD level. mdma vs tpg is worth looking into
Funny you post that when there is a link to autism and GMOs
>GMO foods irritate the gut
>pesticides made specifically for GMOs are designed to kill bacteria but be safe for humans
>probiotics in the gut are killed by the pesticides
>low probiotics has been linked to higher anxiety, depression, weight issues,
>probiotics are even the source of key chemicals used in the brain.
>children with autism test lower in these key chemicals in their brain.
TL;DR: You autists and asshats with assburgers might just of been born with a digestive system disorder.
this almost makes me want to infect myself if i'm not infected already.
>was hitler infected with toxo?
Risk taking entrepreneurs with high test are NPCs?
Hitler was a dog person, probably not lmfao
Now I know why I love kitties so much
I don't think thats how it works. I think a woman gets it and then passes it on to her son.
Maybe.
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Check this out. I want to know why it's so oddly correlated with epilepsy that makes no sense
I don't care. Cats are cute.
I am beginning to think that the full reality of TG is purposefully not being reported on
look at the fractal, toxo isn't just a parasite
it's fucking PEOPLE. fake whites are
whom i speak of, those with cains blood
they're toxo.
i guess my detraction to the whole "it causes homosexuality and liberalism" thing is, its not like toxo just suddenly appeared on earth. we have likely had high exposure since cats were domesticated. so why would society only show symptoms now?
doesnt really make a cohesive argument.
Nevermind, this meta-analysis cleared it up. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BRAIN SCARS
Well for starters, I'm not disagreeing with you but the effects of the infection increase slowly over time of exposure
The only concrete thing known about how it affects humans is that we don't know how it affects humans. All studies done haven't turned up much of anything.
The main source of infection by far is undercooked meat, not cats.
Aye? Society has always had symptoms. E.g Ancient mediterranean culture, cat worship and butt-fucking little boys was common throughout.
There is no better feeling than when a cat climbs on your chest while you're lying down and starts purring.
Society has always shown symptoms.
Looking at history, it seems to be that almost all eras include in some way slow but sure social change which could be linked to social pressures caused by the TG effecting human brains.
I'm just saying it doesnt seem improbable
based fin
>butt-fucking little boys was common throughout.
Only in modern nuhistory
not calling you liars, but thats a stretch.
now i kind of want a government to dump a few million on research of toxo presence (if it can be done) in ancient human remains.
Hmm, it's a stretch to suggest that the same effects that it is possibly having today could have happened in the past? It might look a bit different, considering any particular era's technology and social norms
Humans sacrifice was pretty common bronze age activity, you think they went eww yuck at homosexuality?
Not saying toxoplasmosis caused it, but to think humans have been any different in the other era is naiive. Successful empires have always bred degeneracy.
Not sure you could do it on ancients, maybe those medieval bog mummies?
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If only we had a study about schizophrenic behavior / rates and thoughts in liberals
just now finding out about the cat jew?
>he said the magic (((word)))
Redpill pls
I'll be sure to thoroughly cook my cats henceforth.