Anyone worried about prion diseases from impure peptides?

[Gigantic]

Things generally don't happen against the laws of thermodynamics and I don't wish to exploit my clients by pretending to protect them from something that I don't find likely at all.

And how can we take your word for it that peptides we buy aren’t comprised of polypeptides, and don’t contain any prions?

I’m really just playing the devil’s advocate here. I also think it’s unlikely… but people will have questions that they want answered.

 

[janoshik]

And how can we take your word for it that peptides we buy aren’t comprised of polypeptides, and don’t contain any prions?

I’m really just playing the devil’s advocate here. I also think it’s unlikely… but people will have questions that they want answered.

Well, the same ridiculous logic could be applied to Arsenic in peptides. HIV in peptides etc.

Of course, you don't have to take my word for it.

 

[Gigantic]

Well, the same ridiculous logic could be applied to Arsenic in peptides. HIV in peptides etc.

Of course, you don't have to take my word for it.

Please explain how the law of thermodynamics comes into play here with peptide and polypeptide chains. That response makes zero sense to me.

 

[shartking]

No one is worried about it

 

[janoshik]

Please explain how the law of thermodynamics comes into play here with peptide and polypeptide chains. That response makes zero sense to me.

Molecules and everything spontaneously fall into lower energy levels. Forming a new peptide bond requires energy.

Saying it might happen is the same as saying a stone might fall up the hill spontaneously.

 

[gynoflareup]

Well I couldn’t afford to lose my job and vaccine seemed safe at the time. I have no bad effects from it except for the reaction following the injection. Did you ever get it?

I worked with a guy that sucked out the vaccine with a snake bite kit in his car in the parking lot after his covid shot. He could've just ate the 200 dollar per annum penalty but thought that was a better idea

 

[defdaz]

Chill bro. Most peptides are very short chains - zero chance of being a prion. Even the infected meat BSE scare in the UK in the 80s turned out to be nothing but a damp squib - they expected millions to develop CJD in the 2000s but nothing happened. And that was with widespread proof of infection. There are more important things to worry about bro.

 

[BBC3]

I stumbled on this topic today and have just two questions. First I always thought prions formed in nature, or at least via a foreign source not qualifiable?? Second I heard it takes like 20 years for prions to damage a brain to the point it reports, and then another 10 for a doc with enough brain power to know to diagnose it.??

 

[Northfortuly]

No, but I am now lol