I was worried about this. Don’t assume Alzheimer’s is simple. It is anything but. B3 might be part of it, but don’t look for a miracle anything. Here is some tantalizing trivia.
Schizophrenics commonly have an overabundance of nitrous oxide gases in their blood. Some is common and natural, but they have a lot. However, Alzheimer patients have almost none. Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s seem to be mutually exclusive. An individual will either have one or the other, not both.
Schizophrenia also has great exclusivity with paranoia. With the exception of another class of psychiatric illness, the paranoid-schizophrenics. But in most cases, again, individuals are either schizophrenic or they are paranoid.
Alzheimer’s also seems to have a viral component, a genetic component, and an environmental component.
That is, just within the last few days, a correlation has been found between ordinary Herpes Simplex virus, which typically causes cold sores, of about 60% with Alzheimer’s. The virus was found to be creating the damaging plaque common with Alzheimer’s. This suggests it may be a long term reemergence of the disease, as is found with chicken pox, polio, and other viral diseases.
There has even been a suggestion that Alzheimer’s might be a prion disease, like Mad Cow. Prions are defective proteins capable of altering the perfect form of their protein, to make it defective as well. They are very hard to destroy, and are communicable.
Alzheimer’s also has a strong correlation within families, but not always. And several contaminants and pollutants have been found in many Alzheimer’s sufferers, such as some metals, yet they do not seem to cause Alzheimer’s in the lab.
Alzheimer’s is a terribly frustrating disease.
And I forgot the last D?