Alzheimer’s breakthrough: British scientists pave way for simple pill to cure disease
Ping!
Alzheimer’s is horrible. It doesn’t kill; it just turns a person into someone no one has ever met.
IF patients remember to take it.
Let me guess. Obamacare’s new Alzheimer’s treatment. Cyanide.
The Brits quoted in this publication need to step away from the bar stool and sober up. The last time I looked, a rodent model of prion disease was a Scrapie infection that has nothing to do with the human model of Alzheimer’s. Almost all of the big pharmas have already abandoned the amyloid hypothesis as a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer’s. Many believe that the amyloid is a protective cofactor. The big pharmas have already succeeded in preventing and removing the amyloid without having any significant influence in stopping or reversing the progression of the underlying Alzheimer’s pathology.
It needs more research.
They’re saying that the problem is that the brain goes on the attact when it senses a build up of proteins. And this new drug blocks that attack from happening. But what if nothing fights that build up? Did they follow the mice to see if they had some kind of brain hemmorhage a few months into treatment? There’s gotta be a reason nature wants to fight these proteins.
But its something.
One thing one should do is to cut processed sugar from one’s diet which would go a long way in prevention.
If I were facing Alzheimer’s, I would not mind weight loss and mild diabetes. The weight loss would actually be a benefit.
The primary side effect is that rather than dying brain cells continue to live and new brain cells grow resulting in the brain issuing through an ear canal
Thanks for the ping.
Just received this today.
http://www.futurity.org/can-peanut-butter-smell-test-confirm-alzheimers/