A man goes to the doctor and the doctor tells him, "I've got bad news and worse news. The bad news is you have cancer, but it's operable. The worse news is you have Alzheimer's." The man says, "Whew, at least I don't have cancer."
My uncle came out of the closet yesterday. He's not gay, he has Alzheimer's and thought it was the car.
I asked my friend, who is has a PhD in Viral Pathogenesis, about this. This was her response: "I have to read the study but based on that story, they are making some serious assumptions without any evidence. For example...in people who died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, they found altered proteins that are usually found in Alzheimer’s patients. And these people got CJD from human blood products they had been injected with. So they deduced that the Alzheimer’s proteins were from the donors too. But they don’t even consider the possibility that JCD may itself have caused the altered proteins. JCD is caused by prions which alter brain proteins...so before I ever claimed that the Alzheimer’s proteins were transferred in with the CJD , I would make damn sure that CJD didn’t cause the altered proteins. But that possibility isn’t even mentioned. Maybe it’s covered in the actual study but if not then I say...phooey..."
Well she's a woman, so....... I would take a male's input with a Bachelor's over a woman's with a PhD tbh...
Lol Hotballa and what need to hold a seminar where they explain exactly just what in the **** is going on in their heads. That would be fascinating.
Thanks. I'm pretty skeptical of the study. Not necessarily because of this, but because the idea sounds far-fetched. I'd need a lot more robustness to get me off my prejudice against the idea.
It sounds plausible to me, but unlikely to occur. The disease sounds degenerative in nature, that cells and processes are dying over time that the human body will not replace. Therefore whatever is the instigator for that degeneration must essentially pass from cell to cell like a poison. So if you inject the poison from one person into another via human growth hormone or whatever, it would not surprise me that the process initiates in someone that is genetically susceptible to the disease. But how often would that ever occur. I don't think this could get to your brain without assistance. I do have a fascination with the fact that the human body did not evolve to replace dead or severely damaged neurons. This is the primary area for storage of information and communication. And the entire point of life is generally to pass information. So why at an advanced age are we not having children and not passing information anymore.
