For more than a century, people have considered Alzheimer's disease (AD) an irreversible illness. Consequently, research has focused on preventing or ...
The theory is sound, but in practice, if it works, you’re trading alzheimers for terminal cancer.
Edit: This has been discussed in other places. The chemical used for the treatment is very carcinogenic, and while this experiment seems to work on mouse brains, almost every time a “reverse alzheimers” med gets to this stage it fails completely in the human trial.
Ok. Let’s pretend that’s what happens. Many people would gladly make that trade if they kept / recovered brain function. Of course, it would depend on many things like how pain and timeline of the cancer vs dementia.
What they don’t tell you:
The theory is sound, but in practice, if it works, you’re trading alzheimers for terminal cancer.
Edit: This has been discussed in other places. The chemical used for the treatment is very carcinogenic, and while this experiment seems to work on mouse brains, almost every time a “reverse alzheimers” med gets to this stage it fails completely in the human trial.
No. What do you get out of lying about this?
Not a helpful comment.
It sucks that the world is so shit that makes people this cynical. I wish things were better.
Well, pretty much everyone gets cancer of they live long enough.
I’ll take it.
Ok. Let’s pretend that’s what happens. Many people would gladly make that trade if they kept / recovered brain function. Of course, it would depend on many things like how pain and timeline of the cancer vs dementia.
Jokes on them. My mom has both. Yeah.it fucking sucks.