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I thought the culprit was metal, aluminum specifically from pots, un-coated aluminum cans, etc.,
that found its way into the brain.

No. This was debunked long ago.

Myths about Alzheimers

Do you think that any of the following will change some minds?

• went beyond their duties as a lawyer to defend a first-degree rape of a 12 year old
• smeared and destroyed the lives of Bill Clinton's rape victims
• helped Russia gain control of 20% of all U.S. uranium and then support war with them
• has Parkinson's disease, which can include dementia, which includes changes in memory, concentration & judgment, delusions, especially paranoid ideas, depression, irritability and anxiety
• runs an international money laundering scheme
• uses the immoral 13 Rules for Radicals that will defeat any opponent regardless of political positions
• used the Benghazi scandal as distraction from the national security breach on her insecure e-mail server
• corrupted the FBI and other government agencies to avoid jail
• part of a campaign that conspires to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry, demeans government, and drops civics
• is very angry and hard on her staff, including the Secret Service agents that protect her
• treats public employees as servants and hates them
• is racist and continues to run a racist campaign
• circulated a picture of Obama dressed as a Somali elder in an effort to gin up racial fears
• ripped off Haitians in their time of need in order to spend donated money on her friends
• wants to go along with a plan to destroy Western democracies so her donors can make a profit
• is preferred by established Republicans because they prefer a Bush-Clinton dynasty

Because you want a Bush-Clinton dynasty run by a person who

• went beyond their duties as a lawyer to defend a first-degree rape of a 12 year old
• smeared and destroyed the lives of Bill Clinton's rape victims
• helped Russia gain control of 20% of all U.S. uranium and then support war with them
• has Parkinson's disease, which can include dementia, which includes changes in memory, concentration & judgment, delusions, especially paranoid ideas, depression, irritability and anxiety
• Runs an international money laundering scheme
• uses the immoral 13 Rules for Radicals that will defeat any opponent regardless of political positions
• used the Benghazi scandal as distraction from the national security breach on her insecure e-mail server
• corrupted the FBI and other government agencies to avoid jail
• part of a campaign that conspires to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry, demeans government, and drops civics
• is very angry and hard on her staff, including the Secret Service agents that protect her
• treats public employees as servants and hates them
• is racist and continues to run a racist campaign
• circulated a picture of Obama dressed as a Somali elder in an effort to gin up racial fears
• ripped off Haitians in their time of need in order to spend donated money on her friends
• wants to go along with a plan to destroy Western democracies so her donors can make a profit

Good thing you're not solving real problems. What. A. Fucking. Waste.

This a thousand times over. Run this equipment with World Community Grid or Folding@Home, might lead to curing cancer or AIDS. Fuck, just donate it to some medical research effort and maybe in 20 years a cure will come out and save your ass.

Bitcoin? Megawattage flushed down the entropy hole. Wouldn't it suck for all the bitcoiners if a talented mathematician found a way to trivially circumvent the bitcoin exchange system or if someone came up with a new cryptocurrency that people just liked better (I think both are just a matter of time), leaving Bitcoiners with worthless data stored on hard drives. Maybe all that fine computing equipment won't end up in the landfill, but that's a lot of heat and fossil fuel gone for nothing.

I'd guess that cynical or distrustful people end up with lesser social connections to other people, a factor which has already been linked to dementia.

I'd guess that the cynicism is an early manifestation of dementia in the people who manifest dementia!

How do we tell who is right in proper peer-reviewed fashion?

I'd guess that cynical or distrustful people end up with lesser social connections to other people, a factor which has already been linked to dementia.

This was replaced with an aluminum compound, and aluminum is correlated with diseases like Alzheimer’s. Of course, we have no evidence that aluminum accumlation causes Alzheimer’s; it could just as well accumulate as a side-effect. Still, it’s cause for investigation. .

No it isn't. And the best current theory on what causes autism is that is developmental disruption of the cortex during pregnancy, not "toxins".

No, absolutely false. Most deaths by disease are heart disease and cancer. 7th leading cause of geezer death. Most people are lucky to get old enough to get Alzheimer's, which seldom strikes before the late 70s.

Suicide helps nobody but yourself.

1) How is it being selfish if you kill yourself before you start becoming more trouble than you're worth? If you kill yourself cleanly and quickly you cause far fewer problems than if you linger around for years or even decades with alzheimers. Have you ever seen people with late stage alzheimers? A once polite person could go around molesting or attacking people. http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_stages_of_alzheimers.asp
2) Some insurance companies have policies that will pay out on suicides as long as the suicide is after the designated period. http://www.ehow.com/facts_6371163_life-paid-out-after-suicide_.html

Is it really so selfish if you suicide before Stage 6? It seems more selfish to not to. By that time even if someone comes up with treatments it's probably too late - too many brain cells would have already died.

> aluminum hydroxide which, apart from helping us with our stomach ulcers, may be linked to brain disease

Are you talking the Alzheimer's link? I thought that that was found to be a non causal link quite some time ago.

Here's a link that pretty much flat out says it's not an issue:
  http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_myths_about_alzheimers.asp

There are a lot of websites that talk about it as being a problem, but they all seem a little woo woo.

The work was announced at the ICAD 2008 conference in Chicago.

Here's the ICAD press release that mentions Rember:
http://www.alz.org/icad/_release_icad_072908_130pm_trials.asp

Those are actually pretty serious numbers and far higher than I thought.

One of the lowest rates of Alzheimer's appears in Indian villages,
with only 1% of people 65 and older having the condition.

The specific ingredient has been narrowed down to tumeric, the
spice often used in spicy mustard .

A recent study suggests that the reason might be a diet high in curcumin,
a compound found in turmeric which is used in curry, which has long been
used as an herbal treatment in that country.

http://www.alz.org/News/04Q4/122304.asp

Once again nature provides, I wonder what other cures simple grow in the ground
that we don't know about yet .

Ex-MislTech

A great actor who will be missed by all. So sad that such an extrodinary human suffered the indignity of dying through Alzheimers.

I recommend all Slashdotters honour his memory by donating to the Alzheimer's Association so we can find a cure for this disease.