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We May Finally Know What Causes Alzheimer's -- and How To Stop It (newscientist.com)
We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of Alzheimer's disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease. New Scientist: That's bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. But the good news is that a drug that blocks the main toxins of P. gingivalis is entering major clinical trials this year, and research published Wednesday shows it might stop and even reverse Alzheimer's. There could even be a vaccine. Alzheimer's is one of the biggest mysteries in medicine. As populations have aged, dementia has skyrocketed to become the fifth biggest cause of death worldwide. Alzheimer's constitutes some 70 per cent of these cases and yet, we don't know what causes it.
I thought the president is already suffering from dementia.
I am not trying to troll.
But we have the nations oldest president, who seems to be getting much of its advice not from experts but from TV Political Pundents, who seems angry and bitter all the time, seems to be fearing everyone around him and with a lot of attitudes regression a lot like a child.
There is a good chance we are dealing with early onset Dementia with the president.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
until you factor in the inevitable greed variable from the Pharmaceutical Cartel.
You know as well as I what they're going to do.
They'll buy it up, crank the price to the point of sheer lunacy and charge folks something like $100,000+ for the treatment.
Even if we have cures for all the diseases that ever existed, until someone regulates the GD Pharmaceutical industry, it will only be an option for the super-rich.
( I'm not about to hand over my entire life's savings to be ' cured ' only to live in financial misery the rest of my life. I'd rather die and give that money to my family. )
I remember twenty/thirty plus years ago when researchers found aluminum ions in the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers and there was the suggestion that cooking without aluminum pots and pans would prevent Alzheimer's. It seems that the aluminum ions were a symptom of Alzheimer's and not a cause - but on the plus side it gave steel cookware a good boost.
If it's true that this bacteria causes Alzheimer's, then it's good news as it should be fairly easy to eradicate.
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Aaaaaand we have the perfect slashcomment. Experts say X, someone stops in here, says it's false, provides no links, no proof, just an unflinching assertion.
"If borne out in clinical testing, COR388 could represent a wholly new approach to addressing a disease estimated to affect more than 5.4 million people in the United States." - Business Wire article
I really hope this turns out to be a breakthrough. But as the debunked Buzzfeed story showed us, something prefixed with "if true" isn't necessarily true.
Maybe this will prompt changes to include dental coverage in with medical and not some half covered separate insurance with limited payout.
Diet is so important to your health, but getting damaged teeth fixed is expensive and mostly out of pocket. So you end up eating pre-processed crap that is bad for your health.
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I thought the president is already suffering from dementia. I am not trying to troll.
Of course you are trolling. Trump's mental status is not a question here, he's just fine in that regard. I fear some mistake Trump's lack of political sharpness as a mental problem, but it's really not.
Trump's problem is he's unskilled in political speak, which starts with controlling what comes out of your mouth and the substituting the proper focus group tested catch phrases instead. He just says what comes to mind, which is often something which is ill advised. He's learning to not do this, but his first instincts about what to say are not tempered in the political correctness of the day.
Also, Trump isn't taking guff off of anybody, politically, personally or otherwise. When he's attacked, he responds. Again, this is lack of political experience and caring for political correctness and is often seen as petty and vindictive. This is unusual behavior for political figures, but it's understandable.
None of the above reflect on his mental status, but are personality traits. So you are trolling. Trump's mental status is just fine.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Political leaders are usually narcissists as are CEO's and executive officers of large successful companies. It kind of runs with the territory.
But the question really is if that's a problem for a president to be one? I don't think so.
I was raised by a narcissist, so I'm quite familiar with their personality traits. Where I don't envy the folks who work for them, they tend to burn folks up with their demands, they can be very effective managers and good leaders at times.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
There's a reason they call Alzheimer's Diabetes 3.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Even when the things he says are obviously, demonstrably, and repeatedly incorrect? Don't you expect more from your leaders? I sure as hell do.