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I think any person newly diagnosed with alzheimers would jump at the chance to stop its progression.

• JamesBarney 5y ago
  Once you get an alzheimer's diagnosis your brain is pretty ravaged. The diseases process probably starts decades before most diagnoses.
  • prepend 5y ago
    And I think anyone newly diagnosed would love to have progression stopped at diagnosis. What’s your point? It’s not a total cure and restoration, but it’s better than now- where your brain is ravaged at diagnosis and gets worse until death.
    • JamesBarney 5y ago
      The problem is what would halt progression at diagnosis isn't necessarily the same thing that would halt progression 20 years earlier. And there is evidence to suggest this is the case.
      • prepend 5y ago
        Right, but these are separate things that would both be beneficial. They should be exclusive pursuits. Currently we have neither. I would prefer some preventative therapy that makes it never happen. I would also like a therapy that halts progression once diagnosed.