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You probably have herpes but that's okay: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/03/14/calm-down-herpes-probably-isnt-going-to-give-you

You probably have herpes but that's okay: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/03/14/calm-down-herpes-probably-isnt-going-to-give-you-alzheimers/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2... My wife studies Alzheimer's and I hope she will respond here, but I'm afraid she gets too angry by sensationalist stories based on editorials rather than mainline research. Of course there is inflammation involved. From what I understand talking with her, there is not much mechanistic work done with human tissue; most of it is with mouse models that can only get parts of the disease. Interesting to check out: the inflammasome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammasome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammasome.

smoyer 10y ago
Plus it's hard to take the researcher seriously when it looks like they created their own university. "Professor Resia Pretorius of the University of Pretoria"
- adrianN 10y ago
  > Pretoria: Capital of South Africa founding a city to start your own University sixty years later to publish a paper another hundred years later, that's what I call the long-con.
  - fasteo 10y ago
    LOL
reasonattlm 10y ago
You almost certainly have CMV, and that definitely contributes to the progression towards dementias via chronic inflammation and other immune dysregulation. There are many papers on CMV and immune aging if you care to go digging. Alzheimer's is as inflammation-driven as, say, heart disease. Which is to say that inflammation is a meaningful contributing factor along with all the other meaningful contributing factors. This is primarily these conditions are linked with obesity, because visceral fat is a major source of inflammation. E.g.: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/01/blocking-brain-inflammation.page http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/01/blocking-brain-inf... http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/treatment-option-for-alzheimers-disease-possible/ http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/treatment-option-f...

smoyer 10y ago

Plus it's hard to take the researcher seriously when it looks like they created their own university. "Professor Resia Pretorius of the University of Pretoria"

adrianN 10y ago
> Pretoria: Capital of South Africa founding a city to start your own University sixty years later to publish a paper another hundred years later, that's what I call the long-con.
- fasteo 10y ago
  LOL

reasonattlm 10y ago

You almost certainly have CMV, and that definitely contributes to the progression towards dementias via chronic inflammation and other immune dysregulation. There are many papers on CMV and immune aging if you care to go digging. Alzheimer's is as inflammation-driven as, say, heart disease. Which is to say that inflammation is a meaningful contributing factor along with all the other meaningful contributing factors. This is primarily these conditions are linked with obesity, because visceral fat is a major source of inflammation. E.g.: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/01/blocking-brain-inflammation.page http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/01/blocking-brain-inf... http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/treatment-option-for-alzheimers-disease-possible/ http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/treatment-option-f...