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Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s

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Re: Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s

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Post by bflesch »

StudentStuff wrote: post #28
bflesch wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I think it makes more sense to monitor and gather data on what comes out of your body instead of monitoring what goes into it(e.g. all smartwatches/diets). I'd like to one day have a room-sized analysis unit which screens feces/urine of all attached toilets and performs various tests on it. Analysis results could be assigned to individuals based on the DNA footprint. It could immediately tell you that your sugar…

It'd be great to be able to pull glucose, hydration and more out of urine samples real time, so long as we stay away from say live telemetry to insurers or something like SmartPipe[1] it'd be enormously beneficial. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

In health this would be massively beneficial. Imagine a digital hospital where you monitor excrements for every patient during their stay. When my father was in the stroke unit recently they had him drink a shitload of water and they monitored water intake by making him write down how much he drank and when.

Stupid thing is I need a 100M exit first to sponsor this kind of thing.

Re: Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s

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Post by Chris2048 »

pmelendez wrote: post #16
Filligree wrote: post #15

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The reason doesn't really matter, this is still incredibly valuable work. Death is terrible, and should be eradicated, but Alzheimer's is a few steps above that. There's nothing worse than seeing a loved one be slowly destroyed by that horrific disease, and I'm so glad there are people willing to work on it.

"Death is terrible, and should be eradicated" We are sensitive to death but it is the only mechanism I know that would control overconsumption of natural resources. If nobody dies, then we would deplete the resources in a few decades.

On the other had, technological progress is also proportional to population, so not necessarily so..

Re: Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s

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Post by Angostura »

madshiva wrote: post #23

no need to have Alzheimer to see these poor old guy / women that can't do anything. We should die sooner, waste less resource and enjoy more.

There are some people would would like to die. There are many who get true enjoyment from life well into their 90s.

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Post by humanrebar »

pmelendez wrote: post #16
Filligree wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason doesn't really matter, this is still incredibly valuable work. Death is terrible, and should be eradicated, but Alzheimer's is a few steps above that. There's nothing worse than seeing a loved one be slowly destroyed by that horrific disease, and I'm so glad there are people willing to work on it.

"Death is terrible, and should be eradicated" We are sensitive to death but it is the only mechanism I know that would control overconsumption of natural resources. If nobody dies, then we would deplete the resources in a few decades.

> We are sensitive to death but it is the only mechanism I know that would control overconsumption of natural resources.

Also prices. New kinds of mining are invented to circumvent cost restrictions. Otherwise, certain kinds of metals and gasses would stay forever buried as unusable junk.

Also note that fish that are significantly easier to eat (not a lot of bones, easy to farm, etc.) are more utilized. "Trash fish" are usually just full of bones or too much work to prepare to eat in a tasty way.

Re: Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s

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Post by Beltiras »

_Marak_ wrote: post #11

It's interesting to note that tetrahydrocannabinol and other compounds found in marijuana may reduce the amount of beta amyloid in the brain. Beta amyloid is commonly thought to cause Alzheimer's disease. see: https://www.nature.com/articles/npjamd201612 Last I heard in the US, the Federal government was still making it difficult to run clinical trials for Alzheimer's using marijuana. I think any federally funded med…

It's more complex than just that. At CTAD just a couple of weeks ago there was a presentation on drugs that managed to reduce AB (biomarker was inferred by a PET scan) and it did not result in increased cognition.

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Post by aorth »

Jhsto wrote: post #36
arghwhat wrote: post #34

Heh, the blog fails to load in Firefox 57...

Same thing (the text does not appear) happens if you have Ghostery on blocking all the trackers.

I'm running Chrome + uBlock Origin here and text does not appear either. Same in Firefox 57 + uBlock Origin, although reader view shows the text.
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