t;). Still seventy years later we are unsure of what causes most cases. "We can look at autopsy samples and see what's happened in the end," Dr. Lucie Bruijn of the ALS Association said. "But in living people, it's difficult to figure out what the beginning looks like" (Schaffer).
             The most shocking part of the illness is located within the brain, our most powerful organ. Here we have complete function; remaining unharmed, patients watch their own bodies diminish. Researchers try to explain its origin, conducting reasons such as poor immune systems, toxic elements, poor diets, and chemical imbalances. Although it is not yet determined what triggers ALS there is one treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: riluzole, made with a molecule capable to slow down the release of harmful chemicals that damage our motor neurons (Aebischer). This breakthrough was made in 1993, when it w
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