Dr. Leslie Norins is willing to hand over $1 million of his own money to anyone who can clarify something: Is Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia worldwide, caused by a germ?
By "germ" he means microbes like bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. In other words, Norins, a physician turned publisher, wants to know if Alzheimer's is infectious.
It's an idea that just a few years ago would've seemed to many an easy way to drain your research budget on bunk science. Money has poured into Alzheimer's research for years, but until very recently not much of it went toward investigating infection in causing dementia.
But this "germ theory" of Alzheimer's, as Norins calls it, has been fermenting in the literature for decades. Even early 20th century Czech physician Oskar Fischer — who, along with his German contemporary Dr. Alois Alzheimer, was integral in first describing the condition --noted a possible connection between the newly identified dementia and tuberculosis.
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It is rampant in my family. Are we all getting the germ regardless of how far apart we live? It's hereditary. This is just a waste of money.
ReplyDeleteDementia is a gift to the elderly. My mother was 104 and had not a clue WTF was going on. Put a pie or cake in front of her and she'd gum it up and fall asleep. Who want's to be 104 ? She could not even sit up we would put her on the sofa and bolster in place with pillows and prop her up when she melted over. She just kept ticking though. Wake up and demand I put on MERV. Momma Merv's dead and he was GAY.
ReplyDeleteYeah he was funny she says.
Roll a bolla ball a penny a pitch.
Alzheimer disease is aluminum poisoning.
ReplyDeleteDitto for ADHD, Bi-Polar, Autism, so on. The neurological weapons are compounds of aluminum which has been spread far and wide in the biosphere.
Very sad.
We are being attacked and maimed by chemical weapons.
Then it's caused by aluminum? Like the aluminum in antiperspirants and cookware? What was it caused by before we used those products and the gov't spraying it down from above?
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