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Great, so you can live for the Alzheimer's.
by duaneb 10y ago
Great, so you can live for the Alzheimer's.
- hx87 10y agoIf you stop aging itself, the probability of acquiring Alzheimer's is very low.
- djsumdog 10y agoNot if the Prion hypothesis is true. Unless we find a way to treat Prion and other protein folding based diseases.
- duaneb 10y agoYou talk about aging as if it's a single thing. You'd have to solve every symptom of again to solve it. This is absurd.
- JoshTriplett 10y agoI don't (just) want to solve the symptoms; I want to address the cause. Many degenerative conditions are symptoms (directly or indirectly) of aging, and are heavily correlated with age, but the current approach to treating them is little better than palliative care of the symptoms. Curing those conditions would be good, but stopping the degeneration that causes them in the first place would be better. Yes, there are multiple components of aging and degeneration, and all of them will need a solution. What's absurd, though, is saying "oh, it's multiple things, so it must be impossible to fix".
- duaneb 10y agoThank god nobody around here is saying that!
- JoshTriplett 10y agoAs long as there's life, there's hope. Some of the current research on Alzheimer's suggests that memories may not be lost, just inaccessible, and may thus be recoverable.
- duaneb 10y ago> As long as there's life, there's hope. You're probably also against doctor-assisted suicide.
- JoshTriplett 10y agoNo, I'm not. It's your life, you can choose to end it if you wish. Even if we had a complete cure for all aging and death, you should still be able to choose to not exist. I would never choose that myself, but I would also never tell someone else how to handle their life.