Yeah, but Alzheimer’s Disease comes out of nowhere.
What about Dementia and Parkinson’s?
Most “doctors” are absolutely clueless about these types of things, are they not?
There are tantalizing clues to all of these diseases, indicating that there is a definite mechanism that just needs to be figured out and countered.
Of those diseases you mentioned, they and a host of others are closely associated with the inflammation response of the immune system.
The immune system is a very carefully tuned machine, adapted for a more primitive and septic lifestyle, punctuated with lots of parasites. But modern people have eliminated many of the common diseases and parasites from their bodies.
In turn, this confuses our immune systems into fighting enemies that aren’t there. Asthma, Crohn’s disease, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, irritable bowel syndrome, many neurological disorders, etc., etc., are being linked to this same problem. In many cases there is a complex genetic link as well.
Some of these diseases are actually being treated with parasites. Life threatening asthma being temporarily cured with hookworms, and gastrointestinal problems like Crohn’s and irritable bowel syndrome, with pig whipworms (that can only live in the human body for a couple of weeks.)
But this is just a quick fix. The staggering complexity of the immune system is downright amazing. For example, I was studying the inflammation response as it relates to stem cells in the body:
Inflammation can cause the growth of stem cells.
Inflammation can moderate the production of stem cells to just what is needed.
Inflammation can direct the specialization of stem cells into other cells.
Inflammation can trim stem cells so they only occupy only the space that would be occupied by normal cells that are missing. Molded to shape, as it were.
Inflammation can halt further production of stem cells.
Inflammation can destroy stem cells.
Inflammation can prevent the production of new stem cells.
I once saw a bed sheet sized graph, in small print, in a medical library, showing the complete immune system response to a pathogen entering the body. Hundreds of immune actions later, the body returns to normal. This was in the early 1980s. Since that time, that chart has probably tripled in size.
The brain has over 200 known neurotransmitters, and the liver at least 50 enzymes conducting any number of complex processes.
Yes, it is an amazing machine. But a little at a time, we are getting a handle on it, at least enough to mitigate or eliminate many of our major problems.
Right now, there are several promising treatments for Alzheimers, approaching it from several different angles, and with some impressive successes. So don’t be surprised if within a decade or so, if not cured, then it is relegated to being a far less devastating disease.