Dr Atkins never realised the full side effects of his diet!
impairments could be detected in the ketogenic diet group. Measuring performance therefore provided a quantitative index of incapacitation that was largely predictive of mortality days prior to death.
The impact
Nerve agents tend to feature on most threat lists, either for civil or military environments. They have become a particular feature highlighting the extreme danger of super toxic substances, and the effects of their use, both real and psychosomatic, have been seen with the use in Tokyo. They feature as such a concern that medical countermeasures have been stockpiled, and are procured for EMS personnel. In the military domain, most countries, when concerned about the use of CBRN materials, deploy nerve agent countermeasures to every soldier,
including pre-treatment sets. These pre-treatment sets play an important part in giving the soldier the time to self-administer a countermeasure, and also to ensure efficacy against certain nerve agents. They aren’t a pleasant treatment, sometimes causing soldiers to experience some unpleasant side effects. If, under certain circumstances, the same benefits could be achieved with a nutritional supplement, or by isolating the metabolic process that confers these benefits, then it offers a much needed and less impacting alternative for soldiers.
While the use of nerve agents by rogue states or terrorists is fairly well profiled due to the amount of media it has received over the years, less well understood are the incidents of organophosphate (OP) poisoning and the numbers of people affected by it. The incidence of OP poisoning is
sobering and it can occur in several settings. Worldwide, there were approximately 3 million
organophosphate poisonings last year and approximately 200,000 people died according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). It is estimated that there could be as many as 25 million agricultural workers in the developing world suffering an episode of poisoning each year. The WHO figures appear to be an underestimate and a recent call was made for more reliable data to be collected. There have even been reports of mine/ordnance clearance teams and bomb disposal officers suffering from mild chronic effects of OP poisoning due to prolonged skin contact and inhalation when carrying out clearances. The American Association of Poison Control Centers reported 86,914 exposures to OP agents last year. One-
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