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Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals
Sciencealert ^ | 08/19/2024 | Donald Weaver

Posted on 08/21/2024 12:01:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies.

In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer's, may have been based on fabricated data.

One year earlier, in June 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration had approved aducanumab, an antibody-targeting beta-amyloid, as a treatment for Alzheimer's, even though the data supporting its use were incomplete and contradictory.

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: alzheimers; brain; disease; reveals
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I always thought it was neurological.
1 posted on 08/21/2024 12:01:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

like that fuzzy pictures on the old tvs...it needs to be tuned...but how??


2 posted on 08/21/2024 12:04:26 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ve heard it referred to as “Type 3 Diabetes”.


3 posted on 08/21/2024 12:08:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease

Actually, it's true.

In Dr. Alzheimer's lecture on the new disease discovered by him, the word "kropf" was misheard by students and reporters as "kopf" and the disease was thought to relate to the head ever since.

The word "kropf" is the German word for goiter. Alzheimer's is actually a thyroid disease.

4 posted on 08/21/2024 12:11:03 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Sacajaweau

Well if the analogy holds, we can just hang the side of their heads.


5 posted on 08/21/2024 12:17:30 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Hang =bang


6 posted on 08/21/2024 12:18:02 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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I suppose that depends on the location of one’s brain


7 posted on 08/21/2024 12:20:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well let’s ask Dr Jill. See what she thinks.


8 posted on 08/21/2024 12:36:28 PM PDT by waredbird
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To: Meet the New Boss

WHAT?


9 posted on 08/21/2024 12:57:09 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer's, may have been based on fabricated data.

Trust the Science? 19 Scientific Journals Shutting Down Simultaneously After Being Rocked by Retractions and Fraud: Report

https://www.westernjournal.com/trust-science-19-scientific-journals-shutting-simultaneously-rocked-retractions-fraud-report/"

“Beware those scientific studies—most are wrong, researcher warns”

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-beware-scientific-studiesmost-wrong.html

“So much for ‘peer review’ — Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers”

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-much-for-peer-review-wiley-shuts-down-19-science-journals-and-retracts-11000-fraudulent-or-gobblygook-papers/

10 posted on 08/21/2024 1:13:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Interesting. Thanks


11 posted on 08/21/2024 1:16:38 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“autoimmune”?

“abnormal handling of metals within the brain”?

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“Alzheimer’s May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease”

Perhaps replacing most of the replaceable organs of an early-stage patient, such as the kidneys, liver, and digestive tract. Perhaps the lungs as well.

Another possibility is blood replacement, each week a pint out, a pint of young persons’ blood in.


12 posted on 08/21/2024 1:42:00 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("Building a wall is a red herring" - Elon Musk)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Because of striking similarities between the fat molecules that make up both the membranes of bacteria and the membranes of brain cells, beta-amyloid cannot tell the difference between invading bacteria and host brain cells, and mistakenly attacks the very brain cells it is supposed to be protecting.”

That explanation leaves something lacking, since an immune cell that can’t tell the difference between bacteria and normal cells would be not only useless for its primary function, but in fact counterproductive.


13 posted on 08/21/2024 1:47:38 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Alzheimer’s Disease is a ‘Double-Prion Disorder,’ Study Shows:

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/05/414326/alzheimers-disease-double-prion-disorder-study-shows


14 posted on 08/21/2024 1:55:00 PM PDT by nagant
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To: MeanWestTexan
we can just hang the side of their heads.

My head is already tilted to one side because my brain is so big and heavy with information that I can't hold it up straight. Oh, the problems of being a genius.

15 posted on 08/21/2024 2:20:50 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I survived the WKRP turkey drop contest.)
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To: BipolarBob

Try banging on it with your palm.


16 posted on 08/21/2024 2:22:29 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thanks for the links.


17 posted on 08/21/2024 3:32:15 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: BipolarBob

Is the heaviness on the left side, or right side?


18 posted on 08/21/2024 3:36:19 PM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bacteria have been found in those plaques.

Add to that stress has been proven to make the blood brain barrier permeable.


19 posted on 08/21/2024 3:51:15 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Another theory is it isn't neurological.

It's Type 3 diabetes.

20 posted on 08/21/2024 6:55:09 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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