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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.
I don't think it's dementia. Paranoia certainly. Mild schizophrenia, he seems partially disconnected from reality, and narcissistic disorders are very likely. He's probably on the autism spectrum as shown by his rigid thinking and lack of empathy. I don't think he is suffering from dementia though.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
It's entirely plausible that he is suffering from some amount of dementia
Unlikely. Dementia is defined as a loss of cognitive functioning. But there is little evidence that Trump is getting worse. He has always been this way, even when he was in his 20s. You can't "lose" something you never had.