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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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It's great to see more investment into this disease. When my grandma fought Alzheimer's over the span of a decade it was very striking to see that the effect of a lack of hydration and the disease itself kind of overlapped. When she had a particularly bad day we used to give her a saline IV and you could immediately notice how she cleared up and regained her brain powers after each IV. I'm not up to date on current r…

I think the toilet in general could use an upgrade... for how many years have they been built exactly the same way? Has anyone ever done a study of the flow as urine impacts the toilet and bounces back? Or as we learn more about the importance of stomach bacteria, can our toilet start to do more monitoring of the bacteria in our stomach? Love your idea of hydration monitoring and think the application is probably mor…

I saw a urinal in the new shopping centre that was an inspired piece of design, it had a curved blade in the centre pointing outwards, no matter which direction you hit it from it couldn't splash back (I tried).

Such a simple solution.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Same. And with nearly thirteen thousand lines in the source of the page you'd think the text would be there too. edit: oh, there it is, 25 lines beginning at line 8201.

> oh, there it is, 25 lines beginning at line 8201.

This comment made me laugh with the tragedy that is the modern web.

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