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While sleep, exercise, healthy food, etc may certainly prevent or delay the onset [1], once you have Alzheimer's, it is too late. This is like telling someone w
by rpedela 8y ago
While sleep, exercise, healthy food, etc may certainly prevent or delay the onset [1], once you have Alzheimer's, it is too late. This is like telling someone with gangrene that all they need is neosporin, a fresh bandage, and rest. Except it is too late for that once you have gangrene, your only options are antibiotics or amputation.
1. https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_genova_what_you_can_do_to_prevent_alzheimer_s https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_genova_what_you_can_do_to_pre...
- mhkool 8y agoyou did not get it. Dr Bredesen does reverse Alzheimer in 9 out of 10 patients. No theory or BS here.
- rpedela 8y agoOh I get it. I have heard the same stuff about cancer, heart disease, and every other major disease. And yet the people who take the natural route end up dying sooner on average. Once a disease progresses to a certain point, diet and exercise stop working as a treatment because the disease has already done too much damage. Is it possible that there is a natural cure for Alzheimer's? Given we don't know the cause yet, sure it is possible. But one study with 10 people is not enough evidence to claim there is one. If you simply said "hey I found this interesting, published study that suggests there may be a natural treatment", then you probably wouldn't have been down voted to hell. Instead you asserted that there is a natural treatment with very little evidence.
- mhkool 8y agook, you do want to get it. This doctor publishes data about 10 patients that are made up.
- rpedela 8y agoThe study was not a double-blind, placebo trial which means the positive result could have been because one of the following: 1. Patients didn't actually have Alzheimer's. Given the only definitive test for it is a brain exam after death, this is possible. 2. There was a placebo effect. 3. There was a therapeutic effect better than placebo. You are assuming #3 but we can't draw that conclusion yet. Even the authors of the study aren't claiming #3.
- close04 8y agoDid he try it on those patients alone? Or did he pick the ones that for some reason supported his findings? Would you call such a small sample as relevant?
- jmcgough 8y agoAh yes, the "Steve Jobs" cure. Just take better care of yourself and you can cure cancer/hiv/Alzheimers without any drugs.
- ddeck 8y agoYour entire submission history appears to be almost solely PR releases from/regarding Dr Bredesen and his claimed Alzheimer cure.[1] May I ask what your interest in this is? Is there any relationship you should disclose? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mhkool https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mhkool
- vixen99 8y agoAnything that delays or prevents Alzheimer's is certainly interesting so why so dogmatic? Would 'evidence to date suggests that ... it is almost certainly too late' not be more in line? Your analogy comes with a large assumption.