When a mysterious gastrointestinal illness starts turning into a dangerous neurologic disease accompanied by green tongues in post WWII Japan, researches scramble to find out why people are becoming sick. We'll do a deep dive on this one to figure out the cause.
Sources:
-https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-cure-is-cause-180967666/
-https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15152488/
-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC478909/?page=1
-https://newint.org/features/1981/01/01/devils
-https://www.medchemexpress.com/biology-dictionary/subacute-myelo-optico-neuropathy-smon.html?locale=ja-JP (How Clioquinol causes green tongue and urine)
-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6571072/ (Clioquinol deep dive)
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Meade (Dr Who Wrote the 1970’s paper)
-https://www.byuradio.org/ea2808e3-db19-4656-878c-f4804984ffc2/constant-wonder-dirty-hands--green-tongues?playhead=1844&autoplay=true (Radio interview with author)
-https://www.nature.com/articles/sc201068 (Imaging findings in SMON)
-https://molmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/BF03401927 (Possible Clioquinol Toxicity Mechanism)
-https://shizuka.com.au/the-health-benefits-of-a-japanese-diet/ (Japanese diet and Zinc)
-https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/yoken1952/24/4/24_4_195/_pdf/-char/en (Kono paper)
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