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What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer

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Re: What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer

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Did anyone read "The end of Alzheimers" by Dr. Bredesen? In the book he claims to have the cure, but no one has really talked about his approach. Was it debunked? I'm confused.

I've read it. It's about healthy diet, exercise, and sleep. Even if Dr. Bredesen is wrong, having a healthy diet, exercise, and sleep program is still going to be good for you.

Re: What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer

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Tylenol

Acetaminophen has numerous well-known risks and is probably more dangerous than most people appreciate, and is overused, over-marketed, and too-readily available. BUT, like some other too-simple hypotheses on this thread, it isn't giving you Alzheimer's directly. It may be part of a complex network of causes. Or not.

Re: What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer

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Did anyone read "The end of Alzheimers" by Dr. Bredesen? In the book he claims to have the cure, but no one has really talked about his approach. Was it debunked? I'm confused.

No one talks about it because it’s too ridiculous to be taken seriously by anyone with credentials

What's ridiculous about it?

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In many scientific research projects the same dangerous theme keeps surfacing: monolithic thinking, with “no alternatives allowed”. I feel this is very detrimental to both scientific progress as well as to the broader society.

Welcome to market driven science.

This is driven by grant writing. That’s the literal opposite of market driven

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Probably because, barring completely antibiotic resistant bacteria or some super-virus, if you live in a high-income area, you are either looking at dying due to your heart giving out, or your brain. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-... “Deaths due to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias have increased, overtaking stroke to become the second leading cause in high-income countries, and be…

I think the third one is cancer. And I think there is quite a bit of press releases on new possible methods and drugs on it.

We’ve made an obscene amount of progress on cancer, and we’re getting better daily. We’ve made 0 progress on Alzheimer’s in ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY.

I would rather have AIDS and Ebola at the same time than Alzheimers.

Re: What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer

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You are probably right. How would a list look like? In no particular order, perhaps: Cancer ALS Alzheimer Diabetes Covid AIDS ?

You left out the biggest killer: heart disease.

That and covid deaths and a big chunk of cancer are all caused by obesity

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Has anyone noticed that Alzheimer’s research tend to hit the front page much more than other medical news? I’ve been wondering why for a while.

Because it's a particularly terrifying and relatively untreatable killer.

*completely untreatable killer

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I wish gyms were less expensive, and had places, even a table perhaps, that kids and tweens could use. It would make exercise more accessible for me and my lifestyle. In university, I had an indoor track I could use, it was fantastic and had plenty of room for families and people exercising.

Planet Fitness is like $10 a month and usually 24/7. I'm sure someone will criticize planet fitness because it doesn't have x,y,z...but I don't think you can get better value for an average person.

More likely people might criticize that Planet Fitness does not exist in every country. Or it might not be close enough to everyone. Where I live the cheapest gym membership is 24€/mo and that gym is shady as hell (really bad reviews everywhere).

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I hate this because I want to believe technology and AI and will result in modern medicine where everyone has long healthy lives. The reality that just eating right, sleeping and exercising is still our best health advice is humorous and disheartening.

If we prioritized walkable cities and outdoor time in our lives, would that be so bad? I find it American culture and decades of bad city planning to be a greater harm for living healthy than most other sources of not living healthy.

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