Thank you for pinging me to this. The thought that diet could assist in preventing these difficult diseases will give hope to those that have parents that are slowly slipping away.
We have about 160 very active FReepers engaged in a distributed computing project called Folding@Home. It actually grew out from the older Genome@Home project of the '90s.
Folding@Home is dedicated to learning about how the body folds and unfolds proteins to metabolise in a cell. Absolutely fascinating to be able to potentially cure such debilitating diseases as Parkinson's, BSE and Alzheimers.
If anyone is interested in joining our merry band of folders please check out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1676728/posts?page=1 I've pinged our folders to your thread.