Alzheimer's Cause Identified? 71
JediJeremy writes "Naturehas this article on the possibility that researchers have identified the cause of Alzheimers. Their research says that amyloid beta, a protein in the brain, may cause plaques and makes an enzyme -BACE1-that causes dimentia. In the study mice, those without BACE1 did not get dimentia, while the others did. The article also says that there are current market drugs that can stop BACE1 production and all that needs to be done is for a human trial to begin. Looks like there is hope for those that suffer."
Relosing one's mind (Score:5, Interesting)
I can only hope that this drug helps patients before they suffer a decline in mental faculties -- going through it once is bad enough, losing your mind twice is hell for both the patient and their loved ones.
I think this is a symptom and not the problem! (Score:3, Interesting)
I question the high rate of this problem and the high rate of TV watching of its victims. I don't think TV builds up the plaque in the brain. I think it comes down more to life style.
The progression of this disease is quite depressing. I bought a house from a couple, and the wife was getting into to the later stages. They moved next door to their daughter, because he could hardly leave the house.
I hope this drug doesn't just delay the disease, we need a cure. I want to start watching TV again.
Don't you ever wonder if your starting to get this. Walk into a room and forget why you are there.
Don't you ever wonder if your starting to get this. Start posting and .....
Another theory on the cause of Alzheimer's (Score:2, Interesting)
It has to do with excitotoxins, such as glutamates, aspartates, and others when present in abnormal, imbalanced quantities.
can't be that new (Score:3, Interesting)
yields slews of not so new results relating it to the disease.
According to some of what I read green tea is known to inhibit the enzyme.
More microscopic images (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I think this is a symptom and not the problem! (Score:0, Interesting)
Fact: Vegetarians don't get alzheimer's. ever The human body was not designed to eat meat, and doing so causes ALL sorts of problems. Sure it's a concentrated form of some proteins, but it's not worth the risk of having rotten animal flesh sitting in your intestines for months on end.
You DO know that vegetable matter is expelled from the body within 8 hours, but rotting animal flesh can sit there for months, don't you?
Breast cancer is another disease that never affects vegetarians. Make the lifestyle choice today. I guarantee you won't regret it.
Re:I think this is a symptom and not the problem! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:This is great! (Score:4, Interesting)
Alzheimer's is a terrible, terrible disease that I would not wish on my worst enemies...
Daniel
Re:I think this is a symptom and not the problem! (Score:1, Interesting)
Whereas what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against is the more traditional use of ipecac to induce vomiting. This was a complicated decision based on various things including but not limited to: the development of more effective emergency care services, the reduction of the rate of accidental poisonings, and the problem that people may buy a large bottle of ipecac that the kid(s) may find and ingest.
In any case, during the last 50 years the standard medical recommendation in the US regarding poisonings was that vomiting was only to be induced upon advisement from a physician or the local poison control center.
But yeah... homeopathy practitioners will often claim to treat patients with some substance X, when in fact the portion being administered has been so diluted that (there is a very high probability that) not a single molecule of the original X remains in the solution. It's hard for me to consider that as having any real physical principle behind it.