![]() ![]() Until it is better understood, I will limit/eliminate my consumption of Annonaceae fruits. While it is an extremely tasty fruit (as I also expect the Pawpaw also to be), there are other fruits that are very good without the same potential risk. And they are all pretty happy with their lives. Most people on this forum, I would wager have never tasted one. In the case of custard apple: the benefit (atleast to me) is much more limited. ![]() i.e: crossing the street that in most people’s minds far outweighs the cost of not doing so. In each of the above cases, there is a clear benefit. In each case, one has to make an evaluation of the cost/benefit of performing an action, such as consuming a fruit.Ĭrossing a street could result in your being involved in an accident, so should you avoid crossing the street? Similarly going out in the sun could cause melanoma, would you avoid going out in the sun? In the case of other fruits, there is far less of a connection linking their consumption to something as severe as Parkinsons. In the case of Pawpaws, there is direct evidence linking consumption of its relative: the custard apple to onset of Parkinsons. This is hearing horse hoofs and looking for not zebras but for some rare bird.Īs several have pointed out many plants do have toxins so does it make sense to stop consuming them? We need confirmation of illness, a health and family history, extensive medical testing, a study of large numbers of paw paw eaters, medical professional analysis of all this information, statistically significant causation proofs (not just correlation) and more. I don’t think we can watch a few minute video of a man we know nothing about and use that to suggest he is sick and that the cause of his sickness is paw paw consumption. I have much respect and admiration of you and your helpful posts in the past, so let me state one more time that I’m just respectfully stating on opinion on this one topic that differs from your view and your use of Neal’s video as possible evidence paw paws are bad-no more or no less. Or that he has a nerve problem, brain tumor, or any of a long list of known and more common causes of those symptoms than paw paw consumption. I suspect parkinsons itself is a far, far more common cause of his symptoms than paw paw poisoning, so it seems to me that it would be more natural to watch the video and conclude he has parkinson with the same origins as all parkinsons patients. The experience of one paw paw eater just isn’t a large enough sample size to draw even a suspicion. I don’t think that proves paw paws are safe any more than Neal’s condition, if any, should be presented as evidence that they are unsafe. There are some people right here in this site who have consumed large amounts of paw paws for many years and don’t have any ill-effects. If he doesn’t, I’d think there would be a very long list of possible causes that would be more likely than paw paw poisoning. And perhaps he has no idea what the cause of his problem is-if there is one. But maybe Neal thinks his health is no one else’s business. I understand your position and as I said, nothing wrong with you stating your own opinion- that’s what I’m doing. I just also wanted to say that I don’t think watching someone in a video who may or may not have health problems of some kind (perhaps he is taking medication for some other illness that has a side effect) and then suggesting that those health problems are paw-paw related seems to be putting the cart about 2 miles before the horse. Like I think there is nothing wrong with telling people about this concern so I promise I am in no way condemning anyone for the post or thread- heck, we are here to learn about fruit and this is how we do that. Seems like it would be good to know if more than one person who eats a lot of paw paws is showing similar symptoms. People often criticize health studies of hundreds of patients as having too small a sample size, but to suggest or infer that Neil Peterson is sick because of Paw Paws is using a sample size of exactly ONE. More importantly, these kinds of inferences that seem to suggest that IF (a huge if) he has some kind of parkinson-type disease that it was caused by consuming paw-paws is an even bigger leap. ![]() We know nothing about his health history, that of his parents, whether he may even know the cause of his symptoms (which he may), or what of a million possible illnesses (if any) he may have or what causes them. But making inferences that seem to suggest that anyone can observe Neil Peterson for a few minutes and then diagnose him with Parkinson or “parkinson-like” problems seems absurd. ![]() I have no idea whether or not paw paws are a potential health problem. ![]()
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