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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 08:51 AM Mar 2022

Does COVID neuter reptilian brain cells?

OK, here's a peculiar proposition. After 2 years we know for a fact that COVID and its variants do damage to the human sense of smell, and sometimes also the sense of taste.

As I understand it--and I'm at about the level of expertise of your average Mom's Basement Search-Engine Medical Researcher (LOL)--the classic triune brain conceptualization (which most real researchers now kiss off as dated, but which has some validity)--makes some basic points.

There's a lot of body parts involved in smelling, but eventually our sense of smell is registered in the brain. The "reptilian" and "paleomammalian" brain hunks are in on the action.

So here's what I'm wondering. COVID definitely damages smell and taste in many of the people who get sick with it. Does it also damage the reptilian and paleomammalian parts of the human brain?

If so, what kind of damage is it doing, and how can we treat it?





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Does COVID neuter reptilian brain cells? (Original Post) Achilleaze Mar 2022 OP
I learned on Ancient Aliens that people with doc03 Mar 2022 #1
I learned on Modern Earthlings that no one wants to smell Limberger Achilleaze Mar 2022 #4
I had never had Limberger. I always heard how bad it was doc03 Mar 2022 #7
From what I've read...... Lovie777 Mar 2022 #2
Hea, it's been well known for years slightlv Mar 2022 #3
Yes. We had a control group in this experiment, and the evidence is overwhelming Beastly Boy Mar 2022 #5
Did you faq chuck this with Q? Achilleaze Mar 2022 #6

doc03

(35,321 posts)
1. I learned on Ancient Aliens that people with
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 08:57 AM
Mar 2022

RH negative blood are reptilian. So that explains why I can't smell Limberger cheese anymore. But I haven't had COVID?

doc03

(35,321 posts)
7. I had never had Limberger. I always heard how bad it was
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 10:32 AM
Mar 2022

and how it smelled. I bought some a couple months ago just to try it. It tasted about like munster to me and I could not smell it at all. I think you lose your taste when you are older. I never liked hot food now I use a lot of Frank's Red Hot.

Beastly Boy

(9,276 posts)
5. Yes. We had a control group in this experiment, and the evidence is overwhelming
Sat Mar 12, 2022, 09:57 AM
Mar 2022

The brain cells of anti-vaxxers appear to be completely neutered compared to vaccinated reptilians.

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