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plenty of therapies only treat symptoms
by someguydave 5y ago
plenty of therapies only treat symptoms
- OneTimePetes 5y agoBut symptom treatment is not good enough with this, as even removing the plaque, does not prevent-repair the damage. In this case, the symptoms would just shift to another set of symptoms
- hirvi74 5y agoI'm no doctor, but I am curious if any research has been conducted on whether this treatment would be beneficial for preventing AD in people in "at-risk" populations. Perhaps it could be used to stop the plaques from forming to begin with. I could see this treatment being something like exercise and diet for type-2 diabetes. Exercise and diet may help prevent diabetes, but neither will "cure" the condition once the point-of-no-return has been crossed. In other words, you can turn a cucumber into a pickle, but you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber.
- wongarsu 5y agoSure, but you have to treat the symptoms you actually care about. Lowering a fever doesn't make your nose less runny. If amyloid plaques are just a symptom, then it's much less obvious that treating them will have positive effects on the symptoms you actually care about.