Posted on 11/23/2016 7:27:10 AM PST by RummyChick
An experimental Eli Lilly & Co. drug failed to significantly help Alzheimer’s disease patients in a closely watched clinical trial, dealing another blow to the pharmaceutical industry’s long quest to find a better treatment for the condition.
The disappointing outcome also may revive doubts about an entire branch of Alzheimer’s research that has dominated the industry’s efforts in the past decade. Lilly and other companies have developed drugs that try to stop the buildup of a sticky protein in the brain known as beta amyloid—believed by many to be the primary culprit in the disease. But none of these drugs has worked in a major patient study, and Lilly’s failure could spur efforts to pursue alternative drug targets.
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Try CQ10 and flax oil. (So says my neurologist.)
Maybe that’s not the culprit.
I am taking coconut oil pills but actual coconut oil would probably be better.
Or at least I think it failed
What we do know is that the human body, despite its extraordinary mending abilities (cuts, broken bones etc), will deteriorate with age. There is no escape.
Some of us are luckier than others. I'm 72 and our family has some good genes.
But for others...my heart aches and I make sure St. Jude gets a piece of my action.
Krill oil
It’s a nasty disease. Good for Lilly and all pharmas trying to beat this monster. Lilly has spent $3,000,000,000 in thirty years to find if not a cure at least a way to arrest the process.
Not safe or not effective I wonder. I suppose not effective from the wording. How does it get all the way to human trials before they find it doesn’t work?
Strong links to low-fat diets and Alzheimer’s. I tend to believe that obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s are all linked to low-fat. A minister in the UK health ministry said the UK should apologize for its now debunked and harmful advice to lower fat intake and increase consumption of “fat-free” foods.
How about this:
Alzheimer’s disease - a neurospirochetosis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2769347/posts
http://www.alzheimers.net/6-15-15-effects-of-medical-marijuana-on-alzheimers/
I saw this recently, sounds promising. But who would have ever thought that GOD might just have created the cure.
Fish oil...and cut sugar...some call alzheimers Diabetes 3
It was deemed not as efficacious as they defined in their primary clinical end point.
To your question as to how it "gets all the way to human trials..." how else would you determine if it worked, if you didn't test it in humans?
This my FRiend, is one of the reasons pharmaceutical products are more expensive and the prices continues to rise. It costs enormous amounts of money to conduct clinical trials. In these Alzheimer trials, the length of time on the drug to see results was substantial; the diagnostic tests were expensive; and the disease itself is not fully understood. You couldn't just rush into a quick clinical trial without fully understanding the results.
There is other Alzheimer's research ongoing at a number of different companies, but this was definitely a setback for all involved: pharma, patients, caregivers and the medical community.
Did it really fail or is this the Obami Regime’s outgoing damage unfolding ?
Did it really fail or is this the Obami Regime’s outgoing damage unfolding ?
It seems to run in families but I have also seen dementia appear in people who have brain injuries.
My aunt has it but her personality is the same. The greatest problem from the dementia is that she refuses to believe she has it. That causes a lot of problems.
She lost most analytical facilities (i.e. she can’t figure out how to work the date or time or money). She can’t make change. She can’t figure out her meds.
I agree, and the book Grain Brain is really helpful. I try to eat blueberries and walnuts everyday, and exercise.
I figure the likelihood of an Alzheimer’s preventative, much less treatment drug in my time span is low.
Anecdotally, my mom has Alzheimer’s and she is a sugar-holic!
Also phosphatidyserene, helps the brain clean out. Mackerel contains a lot of phosphatidyserene. You can just get the supplement at a health food store if you hate organ meats and fish.
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