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tl;dr no one knows, lots of hints but every attempt at chemical intervention turns out to be worthless
by bananapub 3y ago
tl;dr no one knows, lots of hints but every attempt at chemical intervention turns out to be worthless
- armadsen 3y agoThe latest approved Alzheimer’s drug, Lecanemab, shows a cognitive benefit. It’s modest, but there are already successors in the pipeline that have shown promise (e.g. donanemab). They’re baby steps, not at all cures, and have significant side effects, but “everything we try doesn’t work at all” isn’t really true the way it was even a few years ago.
- nottorp 3y agoAs with everything else unknown, no one knows yet. Remember that only 100 years ago you could die from an infection.